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Volume 13 • Issue 11• $5.00 May 2017
THE REGION’S MONTHLY NEWSPAPER FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS & PHYSICIANS

Health Foundation of South Florida CannabisNewsFlorida.com

Ushers in a New Era in Grantmaking

BY DANIEL CASCIATO
As the largest not-for-
profit grantmaking organi-
zation dedicated solely to
health in South Florida, the
Health Foundation of South
Florida has been working to
make the region a healthier
place for all residents within
Broward, Miami-Dade and
Monroe Counties. The
Foundation's grantmaking Rebecca Greenfield
approach facilitates and sup-
Paul R. DeMuro ports efforts at the neighbor- Peter Wood Steven Marcus Medical
hood, county and regional
The Need for levels to improve the health status of underserved individuals and families. Marijuana in the
Health Foundation of South Florida’s roots trace back to 1960 when Cedars Medical
More Data Center of Miami (now University of Miami Hospital) was founded as a charitable hos- Hospital Setting:
pital. It became a grantmaking foundation in 1993, when majority interest of the hospi-
Analytics tal was sold to Columbia /HCA Corporation. More than 120 million grantmaking dol- Are You Ready?
lars since its inception, Health Foundation continues to work with strong networks of
leaders who share their focus on helping people live healthier lives.
Professionals in “It’s important for us to help create a culture of health that will penetrate the entire
population,” says Steven Marcus, President and CEO for Health Foundation of South BY REBECCA GREENFIELD
South Florida Florida. “We all need to educate individuals in our community to take responsibility for With the passing of Florida’s
their own health so they can become literate on the subject and what contributes to
Amendment 2 (the approval of medical
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BY PAUL R. DEMURO, PHD
can expect a substantial increase in the
number of patients certified to use med-
Increasingly around the country and Nursing... Nursing... Nursing... Nursing... 1
in South Florida, employers and other ical marijuana in hospitals. As a result,
stakeholders are looking to hire data it is imperative that hospitals take a
analytics professionals who can critically Patricia Rosello: CEO with a Heart proactive step to develop organization-
analyze data to help them grow and wide written policies and procedures
manage their businesses and to be more regarding the use, storage, and delivery
effective. Although there are quite a BY DANIEL CASCIATO of medical marijuana within the hospital
number of computer science and engi- setting. The intention of this article is
neering programs, and even some infor- As a nurse, Patricia Rosello possessed the skillset and not to persuade hospital decision-mak-
matics programs in South Florida, the talents to not only provide excellent patient care, but to ers to adopt any specific course of action
skills that many employers are looking also lead an institution as CEO. Today, Rosello serves as or organizational policy. Rather, its goal
for increasingly are in the areas of data CEO for Baptist Outpatient Services, a division of Baptist is to bring to the forefront operational
science and data analytics. Health South Florida, the largest not-for-profit multi-hos- topics hospitals should consider to suc-
When I was in Grand Rapids, pital health care system in the region, headquartered in cessfully navigate Florida’s new medical
Michigan a few months ago on the cam- Coral Gables, Florida. marijuana frontier.
pus of tiny Calvin College (less than In her role, Rosello oversees 14 freestanding diagnostic Under Amendment 2, a Florida resi-
4,000 students), I noted the school had imaging centers, 16 urgent care dent may be certified for the use of med-
offerings in both areas. When I met with centers, one express care, an ical marijuana if he or she is diagnosed
the President of Claremont McKenna executive health program, Patricia Rosello with a debilitating medical condition,
College (CMC) in Southern California four sleep, two endoscopy receives a written certification from a
(less than 1,400 students) a few weeks Salute to and four ambulatory surgery joint ventures centers. In licensed Florida physician, and obtains
later, I was advised that CMC was devel- addition, Baptist Outpatient Services has 1,061 an ID card from the Florida Department
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oping an interdisciplinary computer sci- Nurses employees, over 839 medical staff physicians and more of Health. A debilitating medical condi-
ence program, focusing on data analyt- than 5,692 referring physicians. tion is defined as “cancer, epilepsy, glau-
ics. CMC is seeking to equip students in See pages 16-41 Rosello joined Baptist Health South Florida in 1997 coma, positive status for human immun-
the liberal arts with the ability to critical- as the Vice President for Ambulatory Services with odeficiency virus (HIV), acquired
ly analyze data in their chosen fields. responsibilities over the diagnostic imaging and urgent immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS),
In the last year and a half, I conducted care centers. Prior to that she worked at Pan American post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD),
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS),
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