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Dr. Robert Quencer Delray Medical Center Recognized

South Florida's Receives Gold Medal as a Center of Excellence for TCAR
Monthly for Career Delray Medical
Healthcare Newspaper Center, the first hos-

Contributions to pital in South
PO Box 812708 Spine Imaging Florida to perform
Boca Raton, FL 33481-2708 the Trans Carotid
Phone: (561) 368-6950 Artery Revas-
Robert M. Quencer, M.D., Professor
and Chair of the Department of Dr. Robert Quencer ularization (TCAR)
Website: Radiology, has received the Gold procedure to treat
www.southfloridahospitalnews.com Medal from the American Society of Spine Radiology. The Gold carotid artery dis-
ease and help pre-
Medal — the ASSR’s highest award — is given to an individual
vent future strokes, (l-r) Mark Green-Lowe Silk Road
CHARLES FELIX who has made major contributions to the science of spine is now a center of Medical, Maggie Gill, CEO Delray
CAROL FELIX imaging, to spine imaging research, to the society itself and to excellence for this Medical Center, Dr. Joseph Ricotta,
Publishers education in radiology. procedure. This
Dr. Quencer earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in bio- Medical Director of Vascular Surgery
NANCY LAMMIE chemistry from Cornell University, and his M.D. from Upstate recognition by Silk Delray Medical Center, Sean Curtis Silk
Editor Medical Center in Syracuse, NY. He was an intern in Internal Road Medical desig- Road Medical
Medicine at Jackson Memorial Medical Center, a resident in nates Delray Med -
JUDY GRAMM Radiology at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New ical Center as South Florida’s only TCAR Center of Excellence.
Editorial Manager & Webmaster York City, and a fellow in Neuroradiology at Columbia- This achievement honors both Delray Medical Center and
Presbyterian’s Neurological Institute of New York. Joseph Ricotta, M.D., Regional Medical Director of Vascular
JMC GRAPHICS He joined the University of Miami faculty in 1976 as Surgery and Endovascular Therapy for Tenet Healthcare, who
Art/Production Associate Professor and was promoted to Professor in 1980. proudly accepted the award from Silk Road Medical. This des-
lammienancy@aol.com ignation notes that Delray Medical Center is among the top 1%
412-835-5796 in quality outcomes for TCAR.
FIU Doctor of Nursing Practice
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Mount Sinai Medical Center Named
Daniel Casciato Program Breaks into the T op 50 of
Barbara Fallon U.S. News & World Report’s Best One of the Nation’s 100 T op
Vanessa Orr
Lois Thomson Graduate Schools for 2020 Hospitals by IBM Watson Health

for Second Consecutive Year
Two nursing programs from Florida International University
LOOK FOR OUR (FIU) Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing & Health Sciences For the second year in a row, Mount Sinai Medical Center
are ranked among U.S. News & World Report’s 2020 Best
NEXT ISSUE Graduate Schools. The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) pro- has been chosen as one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals® by
IBM Watson Health™. Mount Sinai was recognized in the
IN MAY gram holds the No. 50 position, while the Graduate Nursing major teaching hospital category, and was the only hospital in
(master’s) program came in at No. 56 in the rankings released South Florida to be named to the list. Based on results culled
by the national news publisher on March 12, 2019.
TO REACH US The FIU DNP was introduced in 2012, and this is the second from an annual study of publicly available clinical, operational
FOR year the program has ranked in the Top 50 of the authoritative and patient satisfaction metrics, this recognition positions
Mount Sinai among the top-performing hospitals in the U.S.
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National Accreditation from the Pathologists

SUBSCRIPTIONS Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery The Accreditation Committee of the College of American

One Year $45 Accreditation and Quality Pathologists (CAP) has awarded accreditation to Cleveland
Clinic Indian River Hospital based on results of a recent on-site
Two Years $70 Improvement Program inspection as part of the CAP’s Accreditation Programs. The
Three Years $85 facility’s laboratory medical director, Julie Bell, MD, was
Delray Medical Center receives bariatric surgical center advised of this national recognition and congratulated for the
excellence of the services being provided. Cleveland Clinic
accreditation as a Comprehensive Center under the Metabolic
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Optimal Care of the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Patient Best of the Best in the U.S.

2016 ensure that bariatric surgical patients receive a multidis-
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ited center offers preoperative and postoperative care designed that places them in the top five percent of hospitals nation-
specifically for their severely obese patients. wide, according to Healthgrades. Cape Coral Hospital, Gulf
Coast Medical Center, HealthPark Medical Center and Lee
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