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Wuesthoff To Open Clinic In Walmart SuperCenter

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and Wuesthoff Health System announced the organizations’ newest offering of health care services – “The Clinic at Walmart” operated by Wuesthoff Health System. The clinic is scheduled to open in December in the Walmart Supercenter on Merritt Island, Florida.

Hospital Named After Fledgling Space Program

ALONE IN A VACANT LOT, just off Atlantic Avenue, stood the birthplace of Cape Canaveral Hospital – a little log cabin.

Flaherty’s Career as Ship’s Doctor Leads to Adventure, Romance

IF NOT for Port Canaveral, Florida’s cruise industry Dr. John Flaherty likely never would have settled on the Space Coast and co-founded the Royal Oaks Medical Center.

Dr. John Potomski Honored With County Resolution

THE BREVARD COUNTY (Florida) Housing and Human Services Department, and the Brevard County Commission on Aging, hosted a luncheon for John H. Potomski, Jr., D.O, CMD, to celebrate “25 Years of Long-Term Care.”

Uterine Fibroid Embolization Alternative to Hysterectomy

APPROXIMATELY 600,000 hysterectomies (surgical removal of the uterus) are performed in the United States annually. The most common reason for hysterectomy is to treat the symptoms of uterine lieomyotoma, or simply, fibroids.

Brevard Healthcare Systems Ban Smoking On Campuses

Last November – to coincide with the “Great American Smoke Out” – all of the Brevard, Florida healthcare systems went “tobacco free.”

MRSA Transmitted By Direct Skin-to-Skin Contact

INFECTIONS CAUSED by a bacteria called Methicillin-Resistant Stahylococcus Aureus (MRSA) have recently commanded considerable attention in the media, and you’ve more than likely heard the recent news that potentially deadly, drug-resistant staph infections are on the rise.

Dr. Sims Always in the Heart of the Action

DR. DAVIS SIMS, well-known on the Space Coast (Florida) as both a heart surgeon and member of the rock-n-roll band, “Don’t Quit Your Day Job,” never considered any other career besides medicine when he was growing up.

Space Coast Medical News Makers

ACS Honors Pioneer Volunteer Gene Rocque
The American Cancer Society’s Man-to-Man Prostate Cancer Support Group recently honored founding facilitator, Gene Rocque, for his many years of service.
Dozens of support group members, family and friends attended the ceremony where they recognized Rocque’s contributions to the program, including his role in establishing the group in April 1994. Many [...]