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    <pre style="white-space:pre-line"><code>Z Urology                                                                                             PRSRT STD
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

Greater Miami Chamber
   of Commerce 2016
      Official Program

Volume 12 â€¢ Issue 11â€¢ $5.00                    May 2016

THE REGIONâ€™S MONTHLY NEWSPAPER FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS & PHYSICIANS

Nursing... Nursing... Nursing... Nursing... Nursing... Nursing...

                                                         Strengthening the Nursing
                                                         Profession in South Florida

                                                                                                                                                     John Couris

                    Erika Avila                         Current and former members of the Nursing Consortium of South Florida.                             Jupiter
                                                                                                                                                     Medical Center -
   A Day in the                                                                      BY DANIEL CASCIATO
                                                                                                                                                        Reimagining
      Life of a                                Arobust healthcare system is essential to ensure healthy lives and promote wellness                    How to Restore
                                                       within a community. That all begins with the nursing profession, the foundation
  Hospice Nurse                                        of any health system.                                                                             Health and
                                                 â€œThe healthcare sector is a major economic driver in our region. If we want to contin-                   Wellness
Some people wonder how a hospice               ue building South Florida as a top-tier healthcare destination for the physical, mental,
      nurse can work with terminally ill       and economic wellbeing of South Floridians, we need the strongest and most diverse                              BY DANIEL CASCIATO
      patients who, by definition, expect      nursing workforce. Many studies have shown that great outcomes and great patient sat-
to live six months or less. What moti-         isfaction require great nursing,â€ says Ralph EgÃ¼es, executive director of the Nursing                 Since its founding in 1979, Jupiter
vates hospice nurses to bond with their        Consortium of South Florida (NCSF).                                                                         Medical Center has been striving to
patients and support their families and                                                                                                                    be a national leader in patient expe-
loved ones throughout the caregiving,                                                                                          Continued on page 54  rience and clinical outcomes. As a not-
dying and bereavement processes?                                                                                                                     for-profit 327-bed regional medical cen-
                                                               David Zambrana:                                                                       ter, the Jupiter, Fla-based institution
   Turns out hospice nursing is both a                   From Nurse to Hospital CEO                                                                  operates with 207 private acute-care hos-
challenging and rewarding career.                                                                                                                    pital beds and 120 long-term care, sub-
â€œPeople always ask â€˜How do you do what                   BY DANIEL CASCIATO                                                                          acute rehabilitation and hospice beds.
you do?â€™â€ said Erika Avila, R.N., Home
Care Nurse at VITAS Healthcare. â€œIt runs       On David Zambranaâ€™s last day at University of Miami                                                      Award-winning physicians, world-
through my veins - itâ€™s just what I do. Itâ€™s            Hospital (UMH), a nurse walked into his empty                                                class partnerships and innovative tech-
a roller coaster of emotions but I cherish              office and handed him an envelope with a letter.                                             niques and technology enable Jupiter to
and value the patients and families I care     Zambrana, then chief executive officer of UMH, was leav-                                              provide a broad range of services with
for.â€                                                                                                                                                specialty concentrations in cardiology,
                                               ing to take the same position at Jackson Memorial                                                     oncology, pediatrics, orthopedics and
   Building strong connections with                                                                                                                  spine, imaging, digestive health, emer-
patients and families is what motivates        Hospital just across the street.                                                                      gency services, urgent care, womenâ€™s and
Avila to go to work each morning.                                                                                                                    menâ€™s health.
Although many hospice nurses provide           In part, her letter read, â€œIâ€™d like to thank you for what
care at hospice inpatient units, nursing                                                                                                                â€œWe have a team of men and women
homes and assisted living facilities, she      you have done for this organization. As a new graduate                                                here that I believe is the hardest working
prefers to treat people in their homes,                                                                                                              team in healthcare,â€ says John Couris,
where people feel most comfortable.            nurse and nurse who has only worked in this institution,                                              president and CEO. â€œIâ€™m proud of the
VITAS home care hospice nurses wear                                                                                                                  team but what I am most proud about is
regular clothes to help the patient feel       I longed for leaders who were interested in propelling the                                            seeing the impact on the people we care
more at ease psychologically. â€œWe donâ€™t                                                                                                              for. We are making a measurable and sus-
want them to feel like theyâ€™re in the hos-                       nursing profession forward. I             David Zambrana                            tainable difference in the lives of people
pital.â€                                                             needed a leader who listened,                                                    in our community.

Answering the Hospice                                                            who cared, and was genuinely interested in upmost qual-                                     Continued on page 14
Call Early On
                                               Salute to                         ity of patient care.â€
   Avila found her calling after complet-                                           It continued, â€œI can honestly say you were the leader
ing a hospice rotation in nursing school
and landed her first job in hospice. She                 Nurses                  that I needed to drive me forward in this hospital. I
                                                                                 never left any of those meetings without a renewed
                         Continued on page 51
                                                                                 outlook on work. You are â€¦ an inspiring leader.â€

                                               See page 16-60                       â€œThe words on this letter say it all to me," says
                                                                                 Zambrana, who was named CEO at Jackson Memorial

                                                                                 in April. â€œThis is what makes it all worth it.â€

                                                                                                           Continued on page 50

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