More than 400 community leaders, neighborhood residents, physicians and employees recently gathered on the east campus of Baptist Hospital for a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of construction of the Victor E. Clarke Emergency Pavilion.

“Since opening in 1960, Baptist Hospital has undergone several expansions to try and keep up with the continuous growth in our community,” Baptist Hospital CEO Lee Huntley told the audience gathered at the site of the new ER. “This project is the culmination of many years of intensive planning and design in which our Board members, physicians, employees and the community worked together to design a state-of-the-art facility.”

Baptist Health representatives and community leaders marked the construction of the Victor E. Clarke Emergency Pavilion at a groundbreaking ceremony on July 19. Pictured left to right are: Henry Tie Shue, vice chairman and chair-elect, Baptist Health Foundation; Victor E. Clarke, local philanthropist and honorary Baptist Health Foundation Board member; Eugene Eisner, M.D., president of Baptist Hospital medical staff; Wendell R. Beard, member of the Board of Trustees of Baptist Health; George E. Cadman, III, chairman of the Board, Baptist Health; Miami-Dade County Commissioner Katy Sorenson; Lee Huntley, Baptist Hospital CEO; Brian Keeley, president and CEO of Baptist Health; and Calvin Babcock, chairman of the Board, Baptist Hospital.

Calvin Babcock, chairman of Baptist Hospital Board of Directors, talked briefly about some of the changes that have taken place on the campus of Baptist Hospital since it was originally built in 1960, when Kendall Drive was considered the “road to nowhere.” Ambulances avoided Baptist Hospital because the dirt roads were too hard on patients, he said. “Times have certainly changed. Now every ambulance wants to come here.”

Dr. Eugene Eisner, president of the Baptist Hospital medical staff, said that Baptist Hospital is responding to the crisis faced by emergency rooms throughout the nation by building a new ER and expanding its patient capacity from 577 to 673 beds. He added that when this project is complete “patients in the ER will no longer have to wait for a bed to become available.”

Baptist Health Foundation Chair-elect Henry Tie Shue, introduced local philanthropist and honorary Foundation Board member Victor E. Clarke, for whom the facility is named. Clarke’s gift of $10 million leads off the Foundation’s $25 million gift campaign. Describing Clarke as a “long-time Board member and renaissance man,” Tie Shue thanked Clarke for his generosity and commitment to the community. “I am honored to have this opportunity to join the many people here at Baptist Hospital to support this important project,” Clarke said. “This project will provide state-of-the art medical facilities, unprecedented accommodations for the patient as well as the patient’s family, a dramatic increase in capacity… and, most important, expeditious and excellent patient care.”

The new emergency center will be double the size of the current ER with 100 exam rooms, six of which will be equipped with sophisticated technology to manage the most severe injuries. It is part of the largest expansion ever on the campus of Baptist Hospital. The project also includes a patient bed tower with 96 inpatient beds, a new energy center and a seven-story parking garage that will open later this year.



Patrick Maloney has been named the new Chief Executive Officer of Coral Springs Medical Center (CSMC) and Weston Regional HealthPark (WRHP).

Maloney joined the North Broward Hospital District (NBHD) in 1999 as the Executive Director of Neurology and has held several leadership positions including Chief Operating Officer for CSMC, Vice President of Corporate Services for the NBHD and most recently, Interim CEO of CSMC/WRHP.

Maloney has an MBA in Finance from Temple University and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Widener University. He is a past-president of the South Florida Healthcare Executives Forum and is a past chair of the Tamarac Chamber of Commerce. Maloney is a Diplomate in the American College of Health Care Executives (ACHE) and a previous recipient of the prestigious ACHE Southern Florida Regent’s “Early Career Healthcare Executive Award.”



Columbia Hospital is proud to announce the recipients of the 2006 First Humanitarian Award honoring an employee and a volunteer.

Ian Usher, Laboratory Director, was honored for securing donations of money, food, supplies and toiletries for residents of his homeland, Belize. He has remained close to his home village, Belmopan, and through numerous goodwill missions his efforts have helped many communities devastated by floods in the area. In addition, Ian was first to volunteer his time and know-how to help members of his own staff rebuild after hurricanes in 2004 and 2005 while his own home suffered major hurricane damage.

Leona Stephenson was the Columbia Hospital volunteer selected in recognition of her outstanding dedication and assistance to the hospital’s Physical Therapy Department. In addition to helping out at Columbia Hospital, she takes a bus to the Veterans Hospital and helps feed patients there. Leona does not drive and never complains about waiting for buses to transport her to locations where she so willingly donates her time.



Rosha McCoy, M.D., has joined Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital as the director of medical affairs. Dr. McCoy joins Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital from the Medical University of Ohio where she held various positions including director of graduate medical education, associate professor of pediatrics and chair for the department of pediatrics.

Dr. McCoy completed her medical education at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and her pediatrics internship and residency at Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.



Good Samaritan Medical Center announces its Norma and Miles Zisson Comprehensive Breast Center has introduced digital mammography with computer aided detection to its extensive range of services for women.

“This is truly a life-saving addition to the Comprehensive Breast Center because digital mammography has demonstrated improved accuracy,” said Paul Echelard, CEO, Good Samaritan Medical Center.

Digital mammography is a technique for recording x-ray images in computer code instead of on x-ray film, as with conventional mammography. Computer aided detection (CAD) involves the use of computers to bring suspicious areas on a mammogram to the radiologist’s attention. The use of CAD may help to improve the accuracy of a screening mammography resulting in early detection.

“Early detection of cancer helps save lives and often may give women less invasive and less disfiguring treatment options,” according to George Guzewicz, Director of Imaging Services.

“At the Comprehensive Breast Center, board certified medical specialists collaborate on appropriate testing and treatment designed to achieve the best possible outcome. Then our integrated technology—ultrasound, digital mammography with computer aided detection and MRI—is utilized with the goal of providing the highest quality mammography diagnosis,” Guzewicz added.