Category: Special Focus: Eldercare and Case Management

Hospice by the Sea’s Pat O’Meara (left), Director of Corporate and Media Relations, and President and CEO Paula J. Alderson with the Caregiver Friendly Award and winning caregiver DVD. Hospice by the Sea, Inc. has...

I  was recently invited to deliver a centennial celebration science address at my high school, which I hadn’t visited in some forty years.

For numerous at-risk elders, the following scenario is a frustratingly common one occurring daily in homes across the United States: A patient dealing with an injury, illness, or the irreversible ravages of old age falls through...

(l-r) Sandra Peebles, Univision 23; Dr. Jeffrey Horstmyer, UHCS Board Member; Hermes Alvarez, TD Bank Event Sponsor; Claude Pepper Award recipient, Dr. Phillip Frost; and José R. Fox, President & CEO of UHCS. ...

In South Florida Hospital News and Healthcare Report’s July 2009 issue, we discussed the various definitions and components of the term medical homes. Although we would know a medical home if we experienced it, a generally...