Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center is adapting to accommodate the needs of the aging population by opening a Senior Care Emergency Room. The Senior Care ER, is focusing care for senior patients, and is designed to increase patient comfort, and provide greater aid for those patients with visual and hearing impairments. Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center is partnering with NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders) which is a national program to improve care for older hospitalized adults. Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center nurses and emergency room physicians underwent specialized training to care for the elderly.

 

With the new WATCHMAN Left Atrial Appendage Closure (LAAC) Implant now offered at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center, patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (Afib) have an alternative option designed to help reduce their risk of suffering an Afib-related stroke. Afib patients have a five times greater risk of stroke and typically have to take long-term warfarin or similar blood-thinning medications with potentially serious side effects. For those who have medical reasons to seek a non-drug alternative, the WATCHMAN LAAC device works by closing off an area of the heart called the left atrial appendage (LAA). By doing so, harmful blood clots that may form due to Afib are kept from entering the blood stream and potentially causing a stroke.

The newly renovated outpatient rehabilitation center for Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center opened its doors for an open house attended by several of the Palm Beach Gardens and North Palm Beach Council Members. The center reconfigured its space for improved patient flow, new flooring, furniture and new equipment. Treatments at the outpatient center include, cardiac, pulmonary, vestibular, and speech and limb movement, women’s health, BIG and LOUD program for treatment of Parkinson’s.

 

Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center appointed Dianne Goldenberg as the hospital’s new Chief Executive Officer. As CEO, Goldenberg is responsible for all hospital operations, executive planning and medical services of the 199-bed acute care hospital. Goldenberg’s career as a healthcare executive spans over 35 years, and she has been in a CEO role for more than a decade. While she was most recently the CEO of a hospital in Miami-Dade County with a Level II trauma center, amongst other CEO positions, she was also the CEO of one of the former Tenet hospitals in Broward County. Her experience throughout her career has been widely focused on new program development and growth, and she has been recognized for achievements in quality and service.

The SOMATOM Definition Flash from Siemens Healthineers arrived at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center providing patients with a new advanced radiologic offering. The Definition Flash is one of the most important developments in diagnostic imaging. The dual source, 2 x 128-slice CT is better at freezing motion than a single source CT, allowing a patient’s heart along with the arteries and anatomy to be better captured in a single beat, even at higher heart rates. The SOMATOM® Definition Flash from Siemens Healthineers creates new opportunities for patient-friendly imaging at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center. The SOMATOM Definition Flash is one of the fastest computed tomography (or CT) scanners available. For most adults, it can image the entire chest in less than a second and it can scan the whole body in less than 5 seconds.

 

 

By achieving an “A” Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center receives recognition as one of the safest hospitals in the United States. The Leapfrog Group, a national patient safety watchdog, assigns “A,” “B,” “C,” “D” and “F” letter grades to hospitals nationwide and provides the most complete picture of patient safety in the U.S. Developed under the guidance of an expert panel, the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade uses 30 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to assign grades to more than 2,600 U.S. hospitals twice per year. The ratings are calculated by top patient safety experts and are fully transparent and free to the public.