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Tampa General Is #2 Hospital In Florida
Sinkhole Leads To 7 Houses Being Condemned In Land O’Lakes
LAND O’LAKES, —- Pasco county’s largest sinkhole in 30 years has led to seven houses being condemned in Land O’Lakes, Fla.
Two homes were de- stroyed when the ground gave way on July 14, but the sinkhole has since expanded and now stretches 260 feet at its widest point.
Two more houses along its edge were condemned on Saturday, followed by three on Sunday, according to a
Pasco County news release. The full cleanup is ex-
pected to take months, the county said.
Georgia Mom Fatally Shoots Intruder Who Threatened Her Children
COBB COUNTY, GA —- A Cobb County mother defi- nitely took things into her own hands when an intruder broke into her house and threatened her kids.
According to WSB-TV, homicide detectives are in- vestigating the deadly home invasion that took place last Thursday.
A 911 call came in around 2:30 a.m., with a woman re- porting that someone had broken into her house and that she had shot and killed the intruder.
The woman, identified as Shaquita Green, said that she didn’t know the man who came into her house in the middle of the night, but she wasn’t having it when the armed man threatened to kill her three children.
Green said the man, whom authorities later iden-
SHAQUITA GREEN
tified as 27-year-old Kean- dre Funches, kept asking for her husband, William Green, who wasn’t home at the time. After Funches forced the family back into the house, Shaquita Green was able to reach for her gun, she said.
“That’s when I stepped in front of them and said, ‘You
don’t have to do all of that,’” Green said.
When police arrived, Funches was dead at the scene. Police canvassed the area and spoke to the neigh- bors. Green and her hus- band, who arrived just minutes after the shooting, were taken away for ques- tioning while other family members took the three chil- dren.
Shaquita Green said that her kids were trauma- tized by the incident but they were OK. She also voiced her disapproval that Marietta in- vestigators questioned her for about 12 hours.
“We both work full time. We’re parents,” Green said of herself and her husband. “So for them to tear up my house and keep my firearm and I’m the victim, I don’t ap- preciate that.”
Animated Film Depicts Father Daughter ‘Hair Love’ Dynamic
There has been plenty said and depicted about Black hair. In 2017, Filmmaker Matthew A. Cherry is changing the game and rais- ing the bar on the connection between Black fathers and their daughters, and what it means to show love to our hair.
In a press release for his project, Hair Love, Cherry says the film “centers around the relation- ship between an African- American father, Stephen, his daughter Zuri, and her hair. When his wife becomes unavailable, Stephen is faced with having to do his daughter’s hair for the first time, and soon discovers that
Filmmaker Matthew Cherry introduces his animated film, Hair Love.
her hair has a mind of its own.”
The 5-minute animated short film will consist of Pixar-like digital animation, to help bring the story to life.
For Matthew, the story was born out of seeing a lack of representation in main- stream animated projects de- picting the Black family dynamic.
TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL
NATION —— According to U. S. News, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., was once again recognized as the best hospital in the U.S., followed by the Cleveland Clinic and Johns Hopkins Hospital.
In national ranking of spe- cialty programs, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center took the top spot in cancer care, while Cleveland Clinic ranked first for cardiol- ogy and heart surgery, and Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City ranked first in orthopedics.
U. S. News also provided regional hospital rankings based on state and metro
areas.
In Florida, Mayo Clinic
Jacksonville retained its statewide first-place ranking from last year, while Tampa General Hospital rose one rank to second place and UF Health Shands Hospital dropped two ranks to third place. All three also have spe- cialty programs that received national rankings by U. S. News.
Florida Hospital Orlando and Orlando Regional Med- ical Center both ranked first in Orlando and fourth in Florida, improving their statewide placement from last year.
New Skin App Helps People Of Color Bridge The Gap
First Derm is an app that addresses the issue that only 47% of dermatologists have adequate training to help darker skinned people with skin conditions like razor bumps, skin cancer or keloids.
San Francisco, CA — The U. S. Census Bureau projects that by 2050, half of the American population will have skin of color. However, the health dis- parity still clearly exists across race, ethnicity, and socioeco- nomic status.
In a 2011 U. S. survey, 47% of dermatologists and derma- tology residents reported that their medical training (medical school and/or residency) was inadequate in training them on skin conditions in Blacks.
It is also well known that racial and ethnic minorities have been historically under- represented in medical re- search.
First Derm leads the mobile health revolution by empower- ing users to submit skin con- cerns anonymously to board-certified dermatologists with photos and a description from anywhere in the world.
First Derm provides triage service, yielding an informa- tion-based response and sug- gested course of action. Since the app can be accessed any time, users receive a reliable review of their condition di- rectly from a board-certified dermatologist even on holi- days and weekends.
For more information, please visit www.FirstDerm.com.
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