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West Boca Medical Center Honors

Boca Raton Fire Rescue Station 5
for Call of the Quarter

West Boca Medical Center recently honored Boca Raton Fire Rescue
with their Call of the Quarter ceremony for their outstanding service to
the community. Medic 5, Truck 5, and EMS 5 received this recognition
for responding to an 8 week old patient who was unresponsive. BRFR
arrived at the scene and administered IV fluid and oxygen. Once revived,
the patient was brought to West Boca Medical Center, admitted to the
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, treated and then released.
Pictured (l-r): Deputy Chief David Woodside, firefighter/paramedic
Alex Gray, Driver Engineer Jordan Flaschner, CEO Mitch Feldman, lieu-
tenant Scott Sieben, Division Chief Mike Davanzo, and
Firefighter/Paramedic Justin Ghanem.

Eagle Scott Makes a Donation to Broward

Health Coral Springs Hospital Teen Room

Seventeen-year-old Ben Cone recently presented the Pediatric Unit’s Teen Room
at Broward Health Coral Springs with a game center he made himself as part of
his contribution for becoming an Eagle Scout. The idea started when Ben had a
friend in the hospital and saw the need for a shelving unit for gaming and enter-
tainment. Two years in the making and Ben has a completed unit along with rais-
ing $400 towards a new television screen, and donated his Play Station 3 along
with 30 video games he collected.
Pictured is Ben presenting the donations to pediatric nurses and BHCS COO
Michael Leopold. (l-r) Mary Oullette, RN: COO Michael Leopold; Ben Cone;
Perla Bueno, RN, and Candida Rodriguez, RN.

Good Samaritan Medical Center
Participates in Latch and Love Event

Showing support for World Breastfeeding Awareness Week, Good
Samaritan Medical Center hosted mothers and their children at the
hospital to show the benefits of breastfeeding. It was an opportunity
to meet others and share stories and also offer support. At the Special
Deliveries Unit at Good Samaritan Medical Center, the goal is to pro-
vide women with comforting, personalized care, before, during and
after the birth of a child. Our highly skilled doctors, nurses and tech-
nicians focus on the mother’s needs and the needs of her newborn.
During their hospital stay, new moms are offered advice and support
from our specially trained staff as well as a visit from our lactation
consultant.

Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center

Celebrates 100th EMU Patient Case

Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center recently treated its 100th Epilepsy
Monitoring Unit patient. Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center is the only hospital
in Palm Beach County to have a dedicated EMU. Using advanced technology and
the expertise of highly trained specialists, the new Epilepsy Program at Palm
Beach Gardens Medical Center is designed to help patients suffering from seizures
and epilepsy regain control of their lives.
The EMU is equipped with Long-Term Video Monitoring (LTVM), a specialized
form of an EEG in which the patient is continuously monitored on video while
brainwave activity is recorded. The video captured with this testing can be used to
detect epileptic activity not detectable in routine EEGs. It can be critical for the
diagnosis of epilepsy by correlating the time of the physical manifestation of the
seizure with abnormal electrical activity in the brain.
Pictured: Standing (l-r): Claudia Escobedo, Administrative Director
Cardiopulmonary & Rehab Services; Valery Bell, RN; Brenda Arthur, RN, Marell
Gongola, RN; Maria Smythe, PCT; Judy Solari, RN; Teresa Urquhart, COO;
Christopher Dinolfo, Director of Business Development-Associate Administrator.
Sitting: Dianne Goldenberg, CEO; Julie Riley, Service Line Administrator.

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