Wuesthoff | Space Coast Medicine

Rotenberg A Stand-Up Doc

By SpaceCoastMedicine.comJune 29, 2010 0 Comments

DOSING OUT HUMOR: In addition to her medical career, stand-up comedy act and writing, Dr. Melanie Rotenberg is now nurturing a speaking career that includes more than 70 presentations to the medical and lay community on subjects as wide-ranging as medical ethics to the longevity secrets of the Caribbean.

Laughter is the best medicine for Dr. Melanie Rotenberg, physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist – and stand-up comic.

Filed Under: Breaking News Tagged With: Dr. Melanie Rotenberg, Health First, Laugh Yourself Thin, Physician Spotlight, Wuesthoff

ANGEL FLIGHT: Modern Day Pony Express

By SpaceCoastMedicine.comMarch 30, 2010 0 Comments

Dr. Richard Gayles is truly an angel. The Merritt Island, Florida physician is part of Angel Flight, a national network of pilots who volunteer their time ferrying patients to treatment locations far from their homes.

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Dr. Richard Gayles is truly an angel. The Merritt Island, Florida physician is part of Angel Flight, a national network of pilots who volunteer their time ferrying patients to treatment locations far from their homes.

Filed Under: Features, Physician Spotlight Tagged With: Angel Flight, Angel Flight Southeast, Blake Mathis, Dawn Cope, Don Lindell, Dr. Jorge Leal, Dr. Richard Gayles, Michael Smith, Physician Spotlight, Wuesthoff

Wuesthoff To Open Clinic In Walmart SuperCenter

By SpaceCoastMedicine.comNovember 17, 2009 0 Comments

Alicia Ledlie, senior director of health business development for Wal-Mart, said walk-in medical clinics would look like the mockup behind her, in a warehouse in Bentonville, Ark." Source: NYT online.

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.

Filed Under: Breaking News, Facility Spotlight Tagged With: BREVARD COUNTY FLORIDA, Walmart, Wuesthoff, Wuesthoff Health System

Hospital Named After Fledgling Space Program

By SpaceCoastMedicine.comJune 19, 2009 0 Comments

CCH MEDICAL STAFF CIRCA 1974: Front row, left to right; Joe Von Thron, Lew Bean, Ben Knotts, Gelnn Musselman, Bob Deeb, Bill Hyden and Bernie McGlaughlin. Second row; Alan El Tobgui, Tony Catasus, Dr. Aljure, Joe Sutley, Dorothy Twitchell, Paul Leeds, Dr. El Kabani and Miguel Rivera. Third Row; Hobson Wilson, Bill Addington, Dick Betz, John addington, Jim Holloway, Gabby Gioia, Fred Pierce, Everett Cooper, Jim Carter, Brian Gibbons, Dr. Mansur and Dr. Lopez.

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

Filed Under: Flashback Tagged With: Ben Knotts, Cape Canaveral Hospital, Cocoa Beach Chamber of Commerce, Flashback, FRANK VENZARA, Gene Hadden, Jim Carter, Jim Palermo, Joe Von Thron, John Harm, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, Larry Garrison, Marco Burenko, Robert Bashore, Robert Clayton, Rodney Moore, Sally Sange, Steven Wolff, Wuesthoff

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

By SpaceCoastMedicine.comJune 14, 2009 0 Comments

SHIP'S DOC: “The water and the wind on a moonlit night can’t help but foster romance. I know that from experience,” said Dr. Dr. John Flaherty of Royal Oaks Medical Center in Brevard County, Florida.

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.

Filed Under: Features, Physician Spotlight Tagged With: Dr. Amber Surber, Dr. Anthony Kinsella, Dr. John Flaherty, Dr. Leonard Van Eaton, Penny Flaherty, Physician Spotlight, Premier Cruise Lines, Royal Oaks Medical Center, Sonya Merritt, Wuesthoff

Dr. John Potomski Honored With County Resolution

By SpaceCoastMedicine.comJune 13, 2009 0 Comments

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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.”

Filed Under: Breaking News Tagged With: Brevard County Commission on Aging, Brevard County Housing and Human Services Department, Cindy Flachmeier, Clare Bridge, Daniel H. Rocque, Florida Medical Directors Association, Gay N. Williams, Ian Cordes, JoAnn Fisher, John H. Potomski, Judy Powers, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Rebecca Schachter, Roberta VanDusen, Ron Morgan, Tammy Harris, Trudie Infantini Dr. Heidar Heshmati, Virginia Wood, Wuesthoff

Uterine Fibroid Embolization Alternative to Hysterectomy

By SpaceCoastMedicine.comJune 11, 2009 0 Comments

Dr. Thomas Foster

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.

Filed Under: Women's Health Tagged With: Dr. Thomas Foster, Harbor City Medical Imaging, Hysterectomy, Uterine Fibroid Embolization, WOMEN’S HEALTH, Wuesthoff

Brevard Healthcare Systems Ban Smoking On Campuses

By SpaceCoastMedicine.comJune 11, 2009 0 Comments

Lynette Fodor, MHP

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

Filed Under: Hospital News Tagged With: Brevard Healthcare Systems, Health First, Lynette Fodor, Parrish, Second Hand Smoke, Smoker’s Rights, Wuesthoff

MRSA Transmitted By Direct Skin-to-Skin Contact

By SpaceCoastMedicine.comMay 31, 2009 0 Comments

JENNIE WILLIAMS, RN, received her Bachelors Degree in Nursing in 1974 from Roberts Wesleyan College in North Chili, NY; her Masters in Health Service Administration from St. Francis University in 2003; and obtained certification in Infection Control in 2005. She has spent the past 31 years at Wuesthoff, working in the ICU, Med/Surg, Hemodialysis, Recovery Room, education, and since 2003, as the Infection Prevention Control Coordinator. In February of this year she was elected to the Florida Professionals in Infection Control (FPIC) Board, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting infection prevention and control through education, networking, and consultation.

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.

Filed Under: Q&A Tagged With: Jennie Williams, Methicillin-Resistant Stahylococcus Aureus, MRSA, The Journal of the American Medical Association, Wuesthoff, Wuesthoff Health Systems

Dr. Sims Always in the Heart of the Action

By SpaceCoastMedicine.comMay 30, 2009 0 Comments

HE’S THE MAN: Dr. Dave Sims is always in the spotlight, whether it’s “gettin’ down” with his band, Don’t Quit Your Day Job, or performing delicate cardiac surgery. Fellow band members include, from left to right, Caesar, Jack Masucci, Bill Brandow, Jay Smith, Dave Sims, Dave Olinger, Norm Channel and Steve Cowan. At right, jammin’ with guitarist Bill Brandow during a gig at Grill’s at Port Canaveral.

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.

Filed Under: Physician Spotlight Tagged With: Bill Sanabria, David Sims, Don’t Quit Your Day Job, Grills in the Cove at Port Canaveral, Jack Masucci, KATHY HAGOOD, Leslie Sims, Rick Walter, Wuesthoff

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