Author: Dorron Blumberg

Robins & Morton, one of the nation’s leading healthcare construction companies, is converting 250,000 square feet of the Miami Beach Convention Center into a 450-bed field hospital, including isolation rooms. The Army Corps of Engineers announced the project at a press conference Wednesday, joined by Gov. Ron DeSantis along with other state and local officials. The Miami Beach Convention Center retrofit is part of the Corps ongoing effort to convert convention centers, hotels and closed hospitals to alleviate pressure on local hospitals from the anticipated surges of COVID-19 patients.

April 9, 2020 – Calls from medical practices to the Palm Beach County Medical Society (PBCMS) have increased so much in the last two months that the organization has decided to create a new information portal for its members as well as the community at large called the COVID-19 Resource Center. Although PBCMS has always offered a wide range of support services to member physicians, this crisis, explains the Society’s President Larry M. Bush, MD, FACP, affiliate professor of clinical medicine at the FAU Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, has demonstrated a clear need for a central repository of timely and useful information and resources directed specifically at all physicians and health care professionals in Palm Beach County.