Author: Dorron Blumberg

Hammes Company adds Operational Readiness to its service platform with Liz Durrence

Posted by | Aug 21, 2019 | |

August 21, 2019 – Hammes Company, the nation’s leading healthcare developer as ranked by Modern Healthcare’s Construction and Design Survey, has added Operational Readiness to its integrated service platform. Hammes Company’s Operational Readiness service provides a comprehensive overlay to clients’ capital projects, working with the clinical and operational leadership to be “patient ready.” The program integrates numerous multi-functional work teams and leads them in much the same way Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) teams are led. 

 

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JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FIRST IN FLORIDA TO LAUNCH NEW INNOVATIVE IMAGING TECHNOLOGY FOR CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION PROCEDURES

Posted by | Aug 20, 2019 | |

August 20, 2019 – Jackson Memorial Hospital celebrated the opening of two newly renovated cardiac catheterization suites during a ribbon-cutting ceremony on August 19.  The suites feature the new state-of-the-art Alphenix Core+ from Canon Medical Systems, which provides diverse imaging without compromising image quality or performance. Jackson Memorial is the first hospital in Florida offering this new technology. 
 
 

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UF Researcher Investigates Cells’ " Self-Eating"; as Key to Preventing, Treating Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes

Posted by | Aug 20, 2019 | |

August 20, 2019 – What if we could treat obesity or Type 2 diabetes by changing the way our cells take out the trash?
Just as a household can’t function well if it’s filled with garbage, a cell becomes unhealthy if it can’t scrap what it no longer needs. So the cell breaks down these components and uses them as energy, hence the scientific term for the process—autophagy—which comes from the Greek for “self-eating.”
 

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NICKLAUS CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION APPOINTS ED JACHIM AS DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT FOR MAJOR GIFTS

Posted by | Aug 19, 2019 | |

AUGUST 19, 2019 – Nicklaus Children’s Hospital Foundation has appointed Ed Jachim as Director of Development – Major Gifts at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital Foundation, the fundraising arm of Nicklaus Children’s Health System. In this role, Jachim will assist, develop, and implement initiatives for identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding individual and corporate gifts to support the work of the nonprofit Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, the region’s leading pediatric specialty hospital. His focus is to support the South Florida region while honing in on Palm Beach County, its Boynton Beach Care Center and the Palm Beach Gardens Urgent Care Center.

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