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EMS Week at Broward Broward Health North Comprehensive
Health Coral Springs Cancer Center Holds “Paint Fest®”

Broward Health North
recently partnered with the
Foundation For Hospital Art
to hold a PaintFest® for can-
cer patients and their care-
givers. A PaintFest® is a
unique opportunity for cancer
patients to take a break from
treatment and participate with
other patients, caregivers and
staff to complete six-panel
pieces of artwork that will be
prominently displayed in the
Comprehensive Cancer
Center.
At the event, teams of two, consisting of a cancer patient and either a caregiver or
staff member worked together to paint the artwork. “It was wonderful to be a part of
this event which allowed patients and caregivers to celebrate together through art,”
said Pia Ferro, Comprehensive Cancer Center patient. “yet.”
Broward Health Coral Springs celebrated EMS Week with hospital employees The completed art panels will be sent back to the Foundation For Hospital Art to
providing a pull-up EMS truck wash as EMS were provided with breakfast and be placed together as one work of art. Once completed Broward Health North will
lunch. Their way of saying thank you to the EMS team for all they do. hold an unveiling as the pieces of artwork are hung in the Cancer Center.

Jupiter Medical Center Dedicates EMS Lounge in Honor

of EMS Workers Who Lost Their Lives in the Line of Duty

Jupiter Medical Center recently hosted an emotional ceremony to dedicate the emergency medical services
(EMS) lounge in the hospital’s emergency room to the memory of two local EMS workers who died tragically
when their ambulance was involved in an accident with a drunk driver. More than 100 people attended to
pay tribute to Paul Besaw and Lahiri Garcia, longtime employees of American Medical Response (AMR), who
were killed on June 1 in the violent crash on Indiantown Road. The men’s families, dozens of hospital team
members, along with the broader EMS and first responder community were present.
Pictured: Dawn Besaw and daughter Allison attended the dedication ceremony in honor of husband and
father Paul Besaw and his partner Lahiri Garcia.

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