Author: Dorron Blumberg

Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center Brings New Cardiac Research Trial to Northern Palm Beach County for Tricuspid Regurgitation

Posted by | Dec 4, 2019 | |

December 4, 2019 – Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center is actively participating in a new medical study (TRILUMINATE Pivotal Trial), and enrolling patients who have severe symptomatic tricuspid regurgitation (leakage through the tricuspid valve), and are deemed appropriate for transcatheter intervention. This study is being conducted by Abbott, and is designed to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the TriClip device for the treatment of severe tricuspid regurgitation.  Potential participants must go through a screening process prior to being enrolled in the study.
 
 

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Palm Beach State College Executive Dean of the Belle Glade Campus Joins the Health Care District’s Hospital Advisory Board

Posted by | Dec 4, 2019 | |

December 4 2019 – Dr. LaTanya L. McNeal, Executive Dean for Palm Beach State College’s Belle Glade campus, was recently appointed to the Lakeside Health Advisory Board, the Health Care District of Palm Beach County’s hospital advisory board. The board advises the Health Care District Board of Commissioners on issues related to the overall health and wellness of Glades residents, visitors and underserved members of the community. Dr. McNeal fills the seat vacated by Maria M. Vallejo, PhD who retired in March as Vice President for Growth & Expansion and Provost for the Palm Beach State College’s Belle Glade and Loxahatchee campuses. 

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Wellington Regional Medical Center acquires additional 35 acres in Westlake for future medical campus – Land is adjacent to freestanding emergency medical facility that opened in April 2019

Posted by | Dec 4, 2019 | |

December 4 2019  – Wellington Regional Medical Center has acquired 35 additional acres in Westlake from Minto Communities for the future development of a medical campus. The transaction closed November 25. Terms were not disclosed. 
The land is adjacent to a five-acre parcel on which the hospital built a freestanding emergency medical facility that opened to patients in April 2019. The ER at Westlake, located at 16750 Persimmon Boulevard, provides emergency medical care 24-hours a day, seven days a week with eight exam rooms, three rapid medical exam bays, one triage room, on-site lab services and on-site radiological services.

 

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Shekeab Jauhari, MD joins Florida Cancer Specialists as Drug Development Leader – Sarah Cannon Research Institute at FCS is expanding access to Phase 1 clinical research at new site in Lake Mary

Posted by | Dec 3, 2019 | |

December 3, 2019 — Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS) is pleased to announce the addition of Shekeab Jauhari, MD as a principal investigator on its research team. Dr. Jauhari is a medical oncologist/hematologist who will be leading Phase 1 clinical trials at the newest FCS Drug Development Unit in Lake Mary, FL, which is part of Sarah Cannon Research Institute (Sarah Cannon) and scheduled to open in early 2020. As a strategic research site for Sarah Cannon, one of the leading clinical research organizations in the world, FCS conducts clinical trials at more than 36 locations throughout the state.

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