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Florida Hospital Association Plaza Health Network Foundation

Recognizes Memorial’s Care, Honors Community Leaders at 8th Annual
Innovation, and Workplace Women of Distinction & Caring Luncheon

Hollywood-based Memorial Healthcare System was
recently honored with three significant awards by the
Florida Hospital Association at its annual meeting:
“Caregiver of the Year,” “Innovation of the Year in Patient
Care,” and “Best Hospital Workplace.”
Rayford Shipman earned the ‘Celebration of Service’
caregiver award (video) for providing those who’ve suf- Rayford Shipman
fered traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries, lost limbs,
or had strokes opportunities to participate in sports tailored to their abilities. As manager
of the Adaptive Sports & Recreation program at Memorial Regional Hospital South,
Shipman positively impacted more than 500 physically disabled patients in 2016 by facil-
itating their participation in hand cycling, disc golf, adaptive bowling, fishing, and other
activities. The Memorial Sharks, a wheelchair basketball team he organized, finished sec-
ond in the nation in recent competition. Shipman continues to grow the program
through a variety of efforts.
The award for “Innovation of the Year in Patient Care” (over 150 beds) recognizes a
multi-disciplinary collaboration between medical teams at the Memorial Cardiac and (l-r): Emcee Diana Gonzalez; Plaza Health Network Foundation Executive Director Ilene
Vascular Institute and Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital. The group performed a ven-
tricular tachycardia ablation via a trans-apical approach on a 14-month-old, just the Zweig; Terri Shikany; Shelley Nicely Groff, Esq.; Terry Buoniconti; Ana VeigaMilton; Dr. Grace
third time the procedure had ever been done anywhere, and the first time it had ever Wang; Dorothy Jenkins Fields; Marile Lopez (accepting for Congresswoman Ileana Ros-
been performed on a child. Their work corrected Amelia’s arrhythmia and saved the Lehtinen); and Ron S. Lowy, Plaza Health Network Chairman of the Board of Directors.
young girl’s life.
Memorial Healthcare System (over 150 beds) was honored for “Best Hospital Plaza Health Network Foundation recently honored seven women community leaders
Workplace” for promoting employee satisfaction and engagement. Its staff of more at the Eighth Annual Women of Distinction & Caring Luncheon. The Women of
than 13,000 was provided opportunities to advance through merit, professional devel- Distinction & Caring Luncheon celebrates women in our community who have made
opment, and paid college tuition. Nearly 20% of Memorial’s workforce has been with significant differences in the lives of others locally and globally through their leadership,
the healthcare system for more 15 years and its turnover rate is 33% lower than the volunteerism, professional work and philanthropy.
industry average. This 2017 Women of Distinction and Caring honorees are:
• Terry Buoniconti, Community Leader, Philanthropist, Founder of Miami Project
• Dorothy Jenkins Fields, Educator, Historian, Journalist and Founder, Black Archives
Broad and Cassel Among 2018 Best Law • Shelley Niceley Groff, Esq., Jewish Community Leader, Past Chair Jewish
Firms by U.S. News – Best Lawyers® Community Relations Council of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation and Plaza Health
Foundation’s 2017 BESSIE Award Recipient
• Hon. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, First Hispanic Congresswoman, Prominent Educator,
Statewide law firm Broad and Cassel LLP today announced it has been named among State of Florida Senator and Representative
the 2018 “Best Law Firms” by U.S. News – Best Lawyers®. The annual rankings recog- • Ana VeigaMilton, Past Chair Zoo Miami, Jackson Foundation Board Member,
nize the top law firms in the country for professional excellence. Ranked firms are pre- President of Jose Milton Foundation, Philanthropist
sented in tiers and listed on a national and/or metropolitan scale. Broad and Cassel saw • Terri Shikany, Executive Vice President, Health Coalition, Inc., Women of Tomorrow
seven national and numerous regional rankings throughout the state.
Mentor, Chapman Partnership Member
• Grace Wang, M.D., Oncologist and Breast Cancer Advocate, Baptist Health Miami
IRMC Recognized by American Association Cancer Institute

of Critical-Care Nurses with Bronze Level Jupiter Medical Center Earns Excellence
Beacon Award for Excellence Through Insight Awards In Three Categories

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) in Aliso Viejo, California,
recently conferred a bronze-level Beacon Award for Excellence on Indian River Medical Jupiter Medical Center was recently recognized with three Excellence through
Center. The Beacon Award for Excellence — a significant milestone on the path to excep- Insight awards for achieving top performance in patient satisfaction in the Emergency
tional patient care and healthy work environments — recognizes unit caregivers who Department, as well as in the hospital’s Maternity and Orthopedic units. These hon-
ors, courtesy of HealthStream, Inc., set Jupiter Medical Center in a class above the
successfully improve patient outcomes and align practices with AACN’s six Healthy
Work Environment Standards. Units that earn this three-year, three-level award with a many medium size health care organizations evaluated this year.
gold, silver or bronze designation meet national criteria consistent with Magnet
Recognition, the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and the National Quality
Healthcare Award.

St. Mary’s Medical Center Receives Stroke Care

Award for Best Door to Needle Time

St. Mary’s Medical Center, a member of the Tenet Advance Neuroscience Network
(ANN), is recognized by the Florida Puerto Rico Collaboration to Reduce Stroke
Disparities (FL-PR CReSD) with the organization’s “Best Performing Door to Needle
Time in 2016” award.
St. Mary’s and the other hospitals that make up the ANN are participating in the
American Heart Association “Get with the Guideline” Stroke registry to improve stroke
care. St. Mary’s has earned the AHA Target Stroke Elite Plus honor roll, the highest pos-
sible designation, for the past two years.
According to the FL-PR CReSD, St. Mary’s has an average door to needle time of 28
minutes, which is ranking them as second place among all participating Florida of all par-
ticipating hospitals.

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