Edmund E. Collins has recently been named vice president and chief information officer for Martin Memorial Health Systems.

Collins most recently served as vice president and chief information officer at United Hospital Center in Clarksburg, WV. He served in that role for nearly five years after beginning his tenure there as a senior systems engineer and director of information technology.



Cleveland Clinic in Florida announces the addition of Lester Rosen, M.D., a board-certified colorectal surgeon, and board-certified urologist William Gans, M.D., to its team of specialists based in West Palm Beach at the Cleveland Clinic Florida Health and Wellness Center.

Dr. Rosen spent most of his career in private practice with the Colorectal Surgery Specialty Group in Allentown, PA. Most recently, he also served as chief of staff at Westfield Hospital in Allentown.

Dr. Gans was previously in private practice with Urologic Specialists, P.A., in Lake Worth, FL. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Binghamton University in Binghamton, NY, and his medical degree from Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. Dr. Gans went on to complete a urology residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY.



Health Foundation of South Florida announced awards from $15,000 to $450,000 to 11 nonprofit health organizations in Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties. The awards, which totals just over $1 million, were made to grantees during the recent grant cycle.

In Miami-Dade County, Health Foundation recently awarded grants to: Centro Mater Child Care Services, $125,000; CHARLEE of Dade County, $70,000; City of South Miami, $15,000; Community Partnership for Homeless’ Miami Hope Clinic, $450,000; North Miami Beach Medical Center, $35,000; and Planned Parenthood of Greater Miami, Palm Beach and Treasure Coast, $65,000.

Grants were also awarded to: The Health Council of South Florida, $80,000; Unidad of Miami Beach, $100,000; and United Home Care Services, $82,916.

Funds were also awarded to an organization for a program serving both Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties: Community Health of South Florida, $50,000. In addition the University of Miami Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery received $198,000.00.



Sandi Rudegeiar, M.B.A. has been announced as Director of Health Information and Case Management.

Rudegeiars’ recent career accomplishments have been as a Trauma Coordinator at Bayfront Medical Center in St. Pete, FL, and Quality Improvement Director at Florida Hospital in Orlando, FL. She has also been the Director of Health Information and Case Management at various hospitals across the United States.

Ron Dunlap, CDM, CFPP, has been announced as Director of Nutritional Services. Dunlap has transferred from another Health Management Associates hospital, Southwest Regional Medical Center in Little Rock, AR.


Broward Health Weston is the first healthcare facility in Broward County to install the Siemens Somatom Definition AS+ 128 Multi-Slice CT scanner. Patients scheduled for CT at Broward Health Weston will now be scanned by this highly adaptive scanner that provides exceptional image quality with minimal radiation exposure.

The Somatom Definition AS+ is the world’s first CT scanner that adapts to virtually any patient, offers clinicians unprecedented information and provides each person with significant radiation protection, setting a new benchmark in lowering the radiation exposure to the patient.

The system will provide for almost any kind of diagnostic imaging exam, including vessel imaging, cardiac tests and cancer staging, on any type of patient and according to the needs of the patient. The speed of the scanner is faster than the human heart producing spectacular images.