The Avon Foundation has awarded a grant of $150,000 to the Broward Health Breast Cancer Patient Navigator program. The funds will be used over the next two years to expand the program services by adding a bilingual social worker.
Established in 2006, the Broward Health Breast Cancer Patient Navigator program was designed to navigate medically underserved women of all ages, living below 200% of the Federal Poverty Level, who received an abnormal mammogram. The program helps them navigate through the healthcare system from a follow-up mammogram to breast cancer survivorship. This service is provided through an RN case manager.
Humana Inc. has named Tim Love president of its South Florida commercial operations.
Columbia Hospital has earned the Gold Seal of Approval from The Joint Commission for Primary Stroke Centers. The hospital earned this distinction after the Joint Commission conducted an on-site review in July.
“Columbia Hospital demonstrated that its stroke care program follows national standards and guidelines that can significantly improve outcomes for stroke patients,” says Jean E. Range, M.S., R.N., C.P.H.Q., executive director, Disease-Specific Care Certification, Joint Commission.
Process improvement teams from Broward Health swept the competition at this years regional Performance Excellence Showcase winning the showcase presentation and taking first, second and third in the storyboard presentation.
“This is evidence in motion that Broward Health is committed to creating a world class health care delivery system in South Florida by improving our patient care processes, which ultimately affects patient outcomes,” said Lisa K. Rawlins, Director, Quality and Performance Improvement at Broward Health. “Our Board has made quality and performance improvement a priority for our system and by extension, for the residents of Broward County.” The event, sponsored by the American Society for Quality, the leading authority on quality improvement, was held Feb. 13 at the Signature Grand. Teams from Palm Beach, Broward, Dade and Monroe counties in the private, public, service, and manufacturing sectors competed for bragging rights over best practices in process improvement. Showcase teams competed to represent South Florida at the statewide Florida Sterling Quality Conference. Broward Health North Broward Medical Center will now compete in Orlando with winning teams from Floridas other regions for the right to represent Florida at the national level.
Gabriela Corá, M.D., MBA, managing partner of Florida Neuroscience Center in Fort Lauderdale, has recently opened a private psychiatry practice in Miami.