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Holy Cross Health Recognizes Jupiter Medical Center Receives

Extraordinary Colleagues Three Prestigious Recognitions from South Florida's
Monthly
the American Heart Association
Healthcare Newspaper

Jupiter Medical Center has received three American Heart
Association Get With the Guidelines® Achievement Awards for PO Box 812708
implementing quality improvement measures that ensure cardio- Boca Raton, FL 33481-2708
vascular patients receive efficient and coordinated care, ultimately Phone: (561) 368-6950

leading to more lives saved, shorter recovery times and fewer
returns to the hospital. Website:
The Get With The Guidelines® distinctions for which Jupiter

Medical Center has been honored this year are: www.southfloridahospitalnews.com

• The Get With the Guidelines® Stroke Gold Plus
Achievement Award CHARLES FELIX
• The Get With the Guidelines® Target Stroke Honor Roll CAROL FELIX
Recognition Publishers
(l-r) Mark Doyle, President and CEO, Youdeline Balzora with • The Get With the Guidelines® Target Type 2 Diabetes Honor
Holy Cross Health; Angie L’Heureux; Mark Doyle Roll Recognition NANCY LAMMIE
Stonish Pierce, COO Editor

of Holy Cross Health
Physician-led Steward Health JUDY GRAMM
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patients and the community with Hospital, North Shore Medical Center, Palmetto General Hospital
compassionate care. From those in Miami-Dade County, and Florida Medical Center in Broward CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
honorees, Holy Cross Health has County, ranked first in membership, tied for first in quality, and Daniel Casciato
named the Colleague of the Year, earned the second highest shared savings payout out of 513 par- Barbara Fallon
Director of the Year and Leader of ticipants in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service’s (CMS) Vanessa Orr
the Year, recognizing them in a Kurt Kamrad with Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) through its subsidiary Lois Thomson
recent special ceremony. Mark Doyle Steward National Care Network, according to recently released
Holy Cross Director of Laboratory CMS data. As the nation’s largest physician-led health care net-
Services Angie L’Heureux was selected as the non-profit hospital’s work and accountable care organization (ACO), Steward generat-
Director of the Year. L’Heureux played a vital role throughout the ed more than $68 million in total 2020 Medicare cost savings LOOK FOR OUR
pandemic and as a long-tenured colleague of Holy Cross Health’s while receiving a perfect 100% quality rating amid the challenges NEXT ISSUE
Regional Health Ministry, she has embodied and demonstrated of the COVID-19 global pandemic.
Trinity Health’s mission and core values for more than a decade. IN NOVEMBER
L’Heureux demonstrates rapport with her leadership colleagues,
has garnered respect from senior leadership and engaged her col- Delray Medical Center Becomes First TO REACH US
leagues and partnering physicians. L’Heureux served on the hos-
pital’s COVID-19 steering committee, quickly pivoting the Holy Hospital in Florida to Use New FOR
Cross ministry’s testing efforts in partnership with physician lead- ADVERTISING
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others to see that calmness and clarity would persevere. He is best possible outcomes.” ____________
admired for his courage to not shy away from the challenge but
rather hit it head on and conquer. Kamrad joined Holy Cross in
2018 following graduation from Keiser University. He completed All rights reserved. Reproduction
in whole or part without written
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team. Previously Kamrad served as a firefighter and paramedic,
skilled in the field which serves him well in his medical career.

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