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Volume 14 • Issue 12• $5.00 June 2018
THE REGIONʼS MONTHLY NEWSPAPER FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS & PHYSICIANS

Hurricane Preparedness...Disaster Planning

When Natural Disaster Strikes,

VITAS Healthcare Is Prepared

BY MAUREEN KNIPS

Florida sustains more direct hits from hurricanes than
any other state, according to the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration. From 1851 to 2017, the
Sunshine State’s hurricane tally is 117, compared with 64
for runner-up Texas.
Carlos A. Migoya VITAS® Healthcare, the nation’s leading hospice care Stephen Kuska
provider, was founded in Miami and cares for an average
Jackson of 8,900 patients every day in 11 locations throughout Computer
Florida. Not surprisingly, VITAS’ South Florida operations
are well-prepared for the Atlantic hurricane season
Health System impending from June through November. Solutions
Hurricane planning is something that VITAS in South Maureen Knips
Celebrates Florida focuses on year-round. Every week during our Unlimited
hospice team meetings, we validate that all patients’ disaster-preparedness plans are
100 Years up-to-date. It is an ongoing process as we remain focused on meeting the needs of our Providing
patients, their families and our staff.
Continued on page 24 Security,
BY DANIEL CASCIATO
Healthcare Real Estate, Construction Compliance
Jackson Health System celebrates its
centennial in June and its mission to
provide the highest and best quality Saltz Michelson: Celebrating BY LOIS THOMSON
health care to all Miami-Dade residents.
The public health system started out 42 Years of Architectural Success Total regulatory compliance. Confiden -
as Miami City Hospital in the midst of tiality of personal information. Security.
the devastating 1918 flu epidemic. Over in South Florida Isn't that what all companies, particularly
the next 100 years, it grew from this medical facilities, are looking for when it
small hospital with 13 beds and a hand- comes to their computer systems?
ful of employees to Jackson Health BY DANIEL CASCIATO That's just what Stephen Kuska,
System, one of the nation’s largest, most President, provides through his firm,
comprehensive health systems with Charles Michelson can fondly remember the day he Computer Solutions Unlimited (CSU).
more than 2,100 beds and more than was hired to work at Saltz Michelson Architects, an archi- Kuska said his company started as a man-
12,000 full-time employees. Today, tectural firm with offices in Fort Lauderdale and Miami, aged service provider in 1996, to work
Jackson Health System is nationally Florida. It was 1980, just four years after Mark Saltz start- with individual clients to provide IT serv-
known for its highly trained physicians ed the firm, and it was Michelson’s first and only job ices – mostly for small to medium-size
and cutting-edge care. interview. businesses. Often, these SMBs can't afford
“The strength of our brand continues to The economy was in a recession at the time so there or choose not to do the work on their
evolve over time,” says Carlos A. Migoya, weren’t many jobs. As a result, Michelson decided to stay own. To have their needs met, those com-
president and chief executive officer of at the University of Miami to pursue his master’s degree panies would have to contract with a vari-
Jackson Health System. “Specifically, our in urban and regional planning. He also worked part-time ety of providers who offer the different
partnership over the last 60 years with the as a transport in a hospital and worked security for rock types of services – firewalls, anti-virus,
University of Miami has helped us concerts. software, etc. "Rather than advising com-
become a distinct place in Florida and “When Mark asked why I had no architectural experi- panies that they actually need to purchase
around the country.” ence during my time in college, I replied that I figured I Charles Michelson 8-10 products to keep their IT environ-
In 100 years, Jackson has made an would be doing this for the rest of my life and saw no rea- ment secure, we came up with a one-price
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