Category: Special Focus: Eldercare and Case Management

When you have a population that is heavily weighted with older adults and patients with chronic illnesses, it is difficult to assure that the physician’s plan of care will actually be implemented in the home setting. This often...

Delray Medical Center has officially opened its new third floor addition, adding 31 new beds and expanding hospital capacity from 372 beds to 403 beds. The new $4 million unit will house the hospital’s surgical/orthopedic unit...

The majority of people in Miami-Dade County assume that every public school has a nurse, according to a recent survey conducted for The Children’s Trust. Most health professionals, however, know better, and a 2005 USA Today...

Cleveland Clinic recently announced that it has completed the purchase of Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare Corporation’s interest in the Cleveland Clinic Hospital in Weston, FL. As of October 1, the Clinic will become the sole...

Whenever I contemplate the future the view is clouded by the past. It may be that I’ve been working in South Florida’s health system since this time in 1973. It may be that much of what I can predict for 2007 has surely occurred...