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Volume 15 • Issue 2• $5.00 August 2018
THE REGIONʼS MONTHLY NEWSPAPER FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS & PHYSICIANS

Education Legal Leadership

Nelson Mullins and Broad and Cassel

Combine to Form New

Super-Regional Law Firm

BY DANIEL CASCIATO

On August 1, the law
firms, Nelson Mullins Riley
& Scarborough, LLP, and
Florida-based Broad and
Cassel, combined to form
the new law practice,
Dr. Susana Barroso-Fernandez Beverly Capasso
Nelson Mullins Broad and
Cassel. The new firm
Simulation expands the depth and Broward Health
breadth of the legal services
Hospital – to its clients, and has more Tom Moran Gabriel Imperato CEO Beverly
than 750 attorneys and
'World-changing' professionals operating in Capasso on
25 offices across 11 states and the District of Columbia.
"By joining forces and by utilizing each other's strengths, we're able to provide
Continued on page 29 Inspiring Leaders
BY LOIS THOMSON
Education and Focusing on
"World-changing" is the phrase Dr.
Susana Barroso-Fernandez uses to
describe the Simulation Hospital that is the Future
a part of the University of Miami The Strategic Case for the High
School of Nursing & Health Studies,
and that's because, well, it is. Dr. Reliability Organization Model As president and chief executive officer
Barroso-Fernandez is both assistant of one of the 10 largest public healthcare
professor of clinical, and director of in the Healthcare Industry systems in the nation, Beverly Capasso
Simulation Hospital special projects, knows a thing or two about working with
and she has been involved with the top leaders to ensure high quality care for
project since the beginning. BY DR. MOUNTASSER KADRIE the community. Under her guidance, the
She came to the facility 12 years ago, Broward Health team cared for those
and recalled, "Our previous dean was a The U.S. healthcare industry is resilient, vast, complex, affected by the January 2017 Fort
visionary. We were already doing simu- and unique among advanced industrialized countries. On Lauderdale-Hollywood International
lation work at that time, but we real- the other hand, this industry operates in silos, fragmented, Airport crisis and, most recently, the vic-
ized we needed more space to be able to and it does not function as an integrated, efficient, and tims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas
grow the program. So she put together coordinated healthcare delivery system. Currently, most High School shooting. Through these
a group of individuals who not only medical services that patients and consumers receive are adversities, Broward Health displayed its
had simulation experience but also provided by many distinct organizations with limited ability to selflessly serve others.
nursing specialty experience, and said, opportunities for coordination, collaboration, and synergy. “While our entire team was gravely
'There's no limit. What would you want Over the last decade, the U.S. healthcare industry has impacted by the horrific events,” Capasso
in a simulation space? If you could been active in responding to significant healthcare reforms said. “I was overwhelmed by the dedica-
have everything to be able to teach stu- and evolving and demanding market dynamics and forces. tion, expertise and compassion demon-
dents the way you wanted, what would These reforms and dynamics range from the 2010 Patient strated by each and every member of our
that look like?'" Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to the Dr. Mountasser Kadrie team. As a system, we came together and
continue to help our community heal.”
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