HMA Taps Patonai As Wuesthoff CEO

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Steve Patonai has been named CEO of Wuesthoff Health System by Health Management Associates.

Health First Air Rescue First In Forida To Have Night Vision

FIRST FLIGHT features an EC-135 twin-turbo engine Eurocopter that is equipped with the latest medical equipment, and can accommodate two patients comfortably along with three crew members. ABOVE, Chief flight nurse Ron Spivey, left, with pilot John Youngs.

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Central Florida News 13 reported that First Flight is the first in the state of Florida to use night vision on its medical helicopters. Forty percent of First Flight’s emergency calls are after dark, so this new tool allows for more accuracy and safety.

University of Central Florida COHPA Builds Partnerships

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Michael Frumkin is a man on a mission. Spend just five minutes talking with the Dean of the University of Central Florida’s College of Health and Public Affairs (COHPA) and you see the impact of his long career in social work and his commitment to building community partnerships.

Brevard Hospitals Team Up For Sudden Disaster Training

Flanking an eCareMobile unit live feed of Lisa Goetz from the Health First VitalWatch eICU Clinical Operations Room in Rockledge, are, from left to right, Dr. Peter Pappas, HRMC trauma surgeon; Dr. Antonio Marttos, Director of TeleTrauma at the University of Miami William Lehman Injury Research Center; Mike Gavigan, Vital Watch Nurse Manager; Dr. Jim Shaffer, VitalWatch Medical Director; and Dr. David Mozingo, Chief of the University of Florida’s burn surgery program.  Telemedicine technology was a hot topic at Health First’s annual “Bomb, Blast and Burn” seminar, where Drs. Marttos and Mozingo spoke. Particularly compelling were Dr. Mozingo’s recounting of casualty care after September 11th and Dr. Marttos’s use of telemedicine to aid the victims of Haiti’s earthquake.

Disaster strikes. The drone of mid-morning traffic is cut by the roar of crushed machinery and cries of panic. A train car derails spilling volatile chemicals across a major road. In an instant, the chemicals ignite in a fireball.

Wuesthoff To Open Clinic In Walmart SuperCenter

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.

Get Active! Brevard Addresses Childhood Obesity

GET ACTIVE! BREVARD is for children 5 to 12 years of age, and their parents, and provides wellness education.

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – The Brevard Healthcare Forum is taking aim at childhood obesity by hosting “Get Active! Brevard,” a free family event set for Saturday, Oct. 17 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Viera Regional Park.

Wuesthoff Breaks Ground on Hospice House

The Wuesthoff Hospice and Palliative Care's Dr. Jey Pillai Center groundbreaking set for Aug. 28 in Rockledge, Florida.

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Wuesthoff Hospice and Palliative Care will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for their new Dr. Jey Pillai Center for Hospice Care this Friday, Aug. 28, at 10 a.m.

Volunteer Dentists Honored

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BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Dr. Heidar Heshmati, Director of the Brevard County Health Department, honored members of the Brevard County Dental Society for volunteering their services to the Adult Dental Clinic during a reception and dinner at the Suntree Country Club.

Medical Mission Work Changes Lives

BUNKERED IN THEIR “CLINIC,” this mission physican group, treated over 500 patients a day. Among those pictured above are Dr. Clayton and his daughter Natalie, Dr. Allen Earl, Dr. Dan Hammond, Dr. Lewis Soccarris, Dr. Svetlana from Russia, and Dr. Sarah Thorton.

IN PLACES LIKE Nicaragua, there’s satisfaction in healing at its most basic. “There’s no medical record, no liability,” Dr. Robert Clayton said. “You’re just doing medicine.”

Dr. Badgett, Dr. Wheeler Selected 2009 Wuesthoff Physicians of the Year

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PHYSICIAN SPOTLIGHT IN CELEBRATION OF National Doctors Day, Wuesthoff Health System chose Dwayne Badgett, MD, and Jayanthi E. Wheeler, MD, as the 2009 ‘Physicians of the Year’ for Wuesthoff Rockledge and Wuesthoff Melbourne Medical Centers. Dr. Badgett, a vascular surgeon named ‘Physician of the Year’ for Wuesthoff Rockledge, is the medical director of the stroke [...]

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