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Kendall Regional Medical Center Becomes a Leading Healthcare

Provider in Doral with the Opening of the City’s

First Ever Freestanding Emergency Room

With Doral being the fastest growing city in
Florida, healthcare is a topic that has been on the
minds of the city’s 68,000 residents for a few years
now. Fortunately, Kendall Regional Medical and
Trauma Center is opening the first ever freestand-
ing Emergency Room in Doral, making them the
leading healthcare provider in the thriving city. The
hospital celebrated their $10 million project with a
VIP Ribbon Cutting that brought together the City
of Doral government, Miami-Dade County
Commissioners, State Representatives, City of
Doral Police and Fire Rescue, Doral Homeowner
Associations and many more.
The freestanding emergency room will offer full
service emergency care (including pediatrics) Dr. Joseph Averbach
within the 10,500-square-foot facility.
“The advantage to coming to our facility is that we’re a full-service emergency
department,” says Joseph Averbach, M.D., medical director of emergency medi-
cine for Kendall Regional Medical Center. “We can offer all services: CAT scan,
ultrasound and complete on-site lab services, unlike an urgent care.” Also of
note: the center is staffed by board certified emergency medicine physicians and
nurses. Says Dr. Averbach, “We can handle the sicker patients.” Miami-Dade County Commissioner Jose “Pepe” Diaz, State Attorney for Miami-Dade
Growing in popularity around the country, freestanding emergency rooms offer
the same benefits and quality of care as hospital emergency rooms, operating 24 County in Florida Kathy Rundle, City of Doral Vice Mayor Claudia Mariaca, Kendall
hours a day and making use of high-tech diagnostic tools. Freestanding ER’s are Regional Medical Center Chief Executive Officer Brandon Haushalter, Kendall Regional
legally required to operate 24 hours a day, are always staffed with on-site doctors Medical Center Chief of Staff Dr. Georges Saliba and City of Doral Mayor J.C.
and provide all members of the community with a medical screening. The Doral Bermudez cut the ribbon honoring the opening of the Doral Emergency Room.
center offers patients access to more than 40 medical personnel and was initially
conceived as a way to address the lack of emergency services in the area.
“It’s a true honor and pleasure to be the medical director of Kendall Regional Medical Center’s Doral Emergency Room Department,” says Dr. Averbach of the 11-bed
center, which has a sister freestanding ER in Town & Country. “On behalf of myself and my team of doctors, we look forward to being a part of and working for the
Doral community.”

Cover Story: Coral Gables Seeks Advanced Certification for

Orthopedic Center of Excellence

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are a reputable organization, so we it's worked really well." charging patients to home after the hos-
decided to look at the parameters they It has worked so well that Coral pital. They rehab better, they recover bet-
set to establish a Center of Excellence." Gables is now seeking advanced certifi- ter, their infection rates and their post-
Dr. Beauperthuy-Rojas said the hospi- cation for its program. Dr. Beauperthuy- operative complication rates decrease
tal developed a team of social workers, Rojas explained that the Joint when they go home versus going to
pharmacy, physical therapy, floor nurs- Commission has a next level that is an another facility."
ing personnel, etc., and put together a advanced certification. Once a hospital Another example is how, with some of
program that would result in getting receives its Certification of Excellence, the implementations, readmission rates
identical care for everybody. "Following other criteria need to be met for the have dropped dramatically post-opera-
the parameters and guidelines of the advanced – more things that need to be tively after discharge. "It's all criteria that
Joint Commission, we had to establish charted to show that the right thing is Medicare looks at, and we're able to
several criteria, and in doing that we being done, and that improvements are show we've decreased those factors.
noticed that we were already accom- continually being made on what has Those are the most important criteria in
plishing a lot of those things; we just already been established. helping reduce costs for the patient, the
needed to document it, and show the "We already sent out our application hospital, the insurance company, for
results and improvement that we were because we have made those changes as everybody, and still deliver good quality
getting with those results." He added we've gone along the past two years, and health care."
that Coral Gables was the first, and may we're ready to prove to the Joint Dr. Beauperthuy-Rojas emphasized
still be the only, hospital in Miami-Dade Commission that we have not remained that this is not a "one-person show," that
County to achieve the Joint Commission still on this. We have continued to many people have been involved. He
certification for the Center of Excellence improve our program, we have contin- specifically mentioned Chief Nursing
for total knees and total hips. ued to show things we've done that Officer Jessica Miller, CEO Cristina
He admitted it makes him feel good to deliver better health care." Jimenez, and Chief Orthopedic Nurse
know that they are doing the right thing He gave an example of discharging the Yinnette Lamas. "I give a lot of credit to
and the results show it, but added that patients to home. "When we started this those three individuals for really pushing
the program is not static. "We have not program, most of our patients were forward the objectives of the program
been stagnant, we've adapted and going to a skilled nursing facility or a and championing the program to make it
changed things as needed. We send out rehab facility post-surgery. We have the success it's been."
surveys, we have nursing and patient established within the program getting
input, and if we see that we can do better family members and patients more For more information, call
in a department, we're willing to change. involved in their care, and giving better (844) 367-4560 or visit
It's quite dynamic, we change things instruction on what needs to be done, www.coralgableshospital.com.
where we see we need improvement and and we feel very comfortable now dis-

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