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Volume 15 • Issue 7 • $5.00 January 2019
THE REGION’S MONTHLY NEWSPAPER FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS & PHYSICIANS

ONCOLOGY 2019: A LOOK AHEAD 2019:

A LOOK AHEAD
Jupiter Medical Center Advancing

from Community Hospital

to Regional Medical Destination

The Jupiter Medical
Center Foundation has
surpassed a major goal to
enhance health care for
residents in South Florida.
In October 2018, the
Foundation surpassed the
$160 million mark in its
Dr. Marcio Fagundes $300 million goal, allow-
ing Jupiter Medical Center Maggie Gill
How Proton to provide world-class,
compassionate health care Changes
Therapy Can close to home. The new Five-Story Patient Tower
Jupiter Medical Center’s
$300 million Vision. Innovation. Impact. Campaign has led to the hospital’s remark- Underway at
Improve Breast able growth, and demonstrates the significance of philanthropy in moving the nee-
Jupiter Medical Center must continue to evolve into a regional medical destination Delray and Tenet
dle toward greater health care in our region. To meet patients’ health care needs,
Cancer
that is comprised of Centers of Excellence—world-class clinical programs that are
Treatment comprehensive and highly specialized. This includes recruiting first-rate physicians Palm Beach
and adopting a multidisciplinary model of care often found in the nation’s leading
Hospitals
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BY CAROL HIGGINS
with New CEO
Radiation therapy is an effective treat- 2019: A LOOK AHEAD
ment for breast cancer, but like other at the Helm
therapies it often comes with side
effects. Some of the most serious, A Message from David N.
including damage to the heart, may not BY VANESSA ORR
appear until years later. Kenigsberg, M.D.,
Now, proton therapy is receiving When Maggie Gill accepted a position
growing interest for the treatment of President, Broward County Medical this past September as the CEO of
breast cancer, especially left-sided Delray Medical Center and Group CEO
breast cancer which is closer to the for the Tenet Palm Beach County hospi-
heart. Association 2018-2019 tals, it was more than a new job; it was
“When we do radiation to the breast, an opportunity to return to a place that
especially when we’re treating all of the BY DR. DAVID N. KENIGSBERG she always loved.
regional lymph nodes, the heart can “I first worked for Tenet 15 years ago
receive amounts of radiation that can The BCMA is an organization that I joined shortly after in Miami-Dade as a chief financial offi-
potentially lead to heart scarring or starting my practice in July of 2007. I was encouraged to cer,” explained Gill. “I was excited to
injury,” said Marcio Fagundes, M.D., join by physician colleagues such as Dr. Barry Galitzer and return to South Florida—I mean, who
medical director of radiation oncology Dr. Nigel Spier. doesn’t want to be in Palm Beach? Both
at Miami Cancer Institute. Early on, I met Dr. Octavio (Tony) Prieto (who is no my husband and I have family here; I’m
One method of sparing the heart of longer with us) who, in his very unique way, expressed to from Tallahassee, and he’s from Miami-
such damage during radiation treatment me the importance of organized medicine. To paraphrase Dade. It’s a real homecoming.”
involves proton therapy, he adds. him, he said, physicians need to stick together, because at In addition to her role at Delray, Gill
“There are two ways of doing radia- the end of the day, no one else will stand up for us or our will be the CEO of Tenet’s Palm Beach
tion,” says Dr. Fagundes. “One is con- patients. At the time, I really didn’t fully comprehend his Group, which includes Good Samaritan
ventional X-ray therapy; another is pro- message, but as I get older, grayer and wiser, I have begun Medical Center, West Boca Medical
ton therapy. Proton therapy is different to understand what he was trying to express to me at that Dr. David N. Kenigsberg Center, St. Mary’s Medical Center and
in the sense that we send the radiation time. Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center.

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