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Palm Healthcare Foundation, Inc.

Launches Healthier Glades $1 Million Investment Bethesda Hospital Foundation

to Tackle Behavioral Health Announces 19th Annual

Palm Healthcare Foundation, Inc., Palm Beach County’s Women of Grace Luncheon
community foundation for health is expanding its communi-
ty-driven, place-based funding approach, Healthier Together.
The Healthier Glades initiative will receive a total of $1 million On Monday, November 5, 2018 the Bethesda
over the next five years from Palm Healthcare Foundation, Inc. Hospital Foundation will celebrate its 19th Annual
to focus on behavioral health.Palm Healthcare Foundation Women of Grace Luncheon at the Delray Beach
uses this localized grantmaking strategy to solve Palm Beach Marriott. This event, with more than 500 attendees,
County’s most complex healthcare issues, neighborhood by honors six local women whose outstanding service
neighborhood. Currently, the Foundation funds five Healthier inspires and enriches our community. This year the
Together programs. Healthier Glades is the sixth community exemplary women were chosen for their selfless acts
and the fourth to tackle behavioral health as its health focus. of kindness and charity towards others. Chairing this
Supporting the strong commitment of residents and leaders Inger Harvey spectacular event are Nicole Pasqual and Karen
from Belle Glade, South Bay and Pahokee to work together, Rogers.
Palm Healthcare Foundation is proud to announce an infusion of $1 million dollars over Proceeds from the Luncheon will benefit the Center for Pediatric
five years to tackle the root causes of behavioral health issues facing the residents of all Development, which offers children from newborns to adolescents a full range of
of the Glades communities. In addition to traditional health services and resources, they quality rehabilitative services including Bethesda Health’s Intensive Feeding, the
will address health issues, such as neighborhood safety and race equity. Community only feeding program in the southeast. The program offers individualized com-
Partners, Inc. will serve as the fiscal agent for the initiative. prehensive care for children with a wide range of feeding difficulties. Feeding dif-
Inger Harvey has been named the project director of Healthier Glades. Harvey is a ficulties affect approximately 60% of children born prematurely or children who
highly skilled professional who brings more than 25 years of success to creating shared have chronic medical conditions. The necessity for this scope of care has created
visions; facilitating cooperation among diverse groups with conflicting agendas; and a wait list and urgent need to expand.
engaging nontraditional partners. Most recently, she was employed at the Office of
Community Revitalization, Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners. 2018 Women of Grace Honorees:
• Debralynn Belletieri - American Association of Caregiving Youth
• Deborah Dowd - Achievement Centers for Children & Families
Golisano Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida • Gail Oliver - Gift of Life Marrow Registry
• Beth Schatman- Alzheimer’s Community Care
Named Most Beautiful Hospital in United States • Patricia Tormey- Forgotten Soldiers Outreach
• 2018 Future Woman of Grace: Isabella Diefendorf- American Heritage
Lee Health is proud to announce that
Soliant has named Golisano Children’s Ticket prices are $175. For more information, visit
Hospital of Southwest Florida as www.BethesdaHospitalFoundation.org.
Soliant’s Most Beautiful Hospital in the
U.S. for 2018. Golisano Children’s
Hospital was selected as the 2018 win-
ner after more than 250,000 votes were
cast nationally. The hospital treats more Good Samaritan Medical Center Offers
than 25,000 patients annually and is
the only accredited children’s hospital the World’s Smallest Pacemaker
between Tampa and Miami. Golisano
Children’s Hospital opened its new
facility in 2017, and currently contains Good Samaritan Medical Center is now offering the world’s smallest pacemaker for
128 patient beds in rooms designed to help patients and their families feel at home. patients with bradycardia. The Micra® Transcatheter Pacing System (TPS) is a new type
of heart device that provides patients with the most advanced pacing technology at one-
tenth the size of a traditional pacemaker.
Jupiter Medical Center and Life Line Screening “As the need for even more advanced cardiac care in our community grows, we will
continue to expand our services and invest in new technology,” said Tara McCoy, CEO
Partner to Promote Prevention of Chronic Disease of Good Samaritan Medical Center. “Both our patients and clinicians will certainly see
the benefits of the Micra Transcatheter Pacing System.”
Jupiter Medical Center is partnering with Life Line Screening, the nation’s largest Comparable in size to a large vitamin, physicians at Good Samaritan Medical Center
provider of preventive health screenings, to help people understand their risk for stroke, have elected to use Medtronic’s Micra TPS because unlike traditional pacemakers, the
vascular disease and aneurysms. device does not require cardiac wires (leads) or a surgical “pocket” under the skin to
Provided screenings include: deliver a pacing therapy. Instead, the device is small enough to be delivered through a
• Carotid Artery Screening Ultrasound catheter and implanted directly into the heart with small tines, providing a safe alterna-
• Atrial Fibrillation Screening (Afib) tive to conventional pacemakers without the complications associated with leads – all
• Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening while being cosmetically invisible. The Micra TPS is also designed to automatically adjust
• Peripheral Arterial Disease Screening pacing therapy based on a patient’s activity levels.
• Osteoporosis Screening The Micra TPS also incorporates a retrieval feature to enable retrieval of the device
Screening locations vary throughout Jupiter and the surrounding area — including when possible; however, the device is designed to be left in the body. For patients who
West Palm Beach, Port St. Lucie and Wellington — and take place at various times need more than one heart device, the miniaturized Micra TPS was designed with a
throughout the year. Walk-ins are accepted, but it is recommended to make an appoint- unique feature that enables it to be permanently turned off so it can remain in the body
ment through Life Line Screening at (877) 557-7497. and a new device can be implanted without risk of electrical interaction.
The Micra TPS is the first and only transcatheter pacing system to be approved for both
1.5 and 3 Tesla (T) full-body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans and is designed
Broward Health Coral Springs Recognized for to allow patients to be followed by their physicians and send data remotely via the
Medtronic CareLink® Network.
Higher Quality in Maternity Care The Micra TPS was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in August
2018, and has been granted Medicare reimbursement, allowing broad patient access to
Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of Florida has recognized Broward Health Coral Springs the novel pacing technology.
with a Blue Distinction® Center+ for Maternity Care designation as part of the Blue
Distinction Specialty Care program. Blue Distinction Centers are nationally designated
hospitals that show expertise in delivering improved patient safety and better health out-
comes, based on objective measures that were developed with input from the medical E-mail Your Editorial Submissions to
community. “We are honored to be included on this list of healthcare facilities for provid-
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care to patients across South Florida and beyond,” said Broward Health President/CEO
Beverly Capasso.

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