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CarePlus Bringing Medicare Advantage to Central Florida in 2008
Product Also Expanding to Medicare Beneficiaries in Pasco County

CarePlus Health Plans, Inc. is bringing its Medicare Advantage product to Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties, giving Central Florida Medicare beneficiaries several new health plan enrollment options for 2008.
LYNNE JETER

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Caring for Orlando’s Most Vulnerable Patients: Abused Children
Every four minutes in Florida, a child is physically, sexually or emotionally abused or neglected. In 2006 alone, nearly 32,000 reports of abuse and neglect were reported in Brevard, Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties. For years, child abuse has been the leading cause of death in children under the age of four.
LAURA PHIPPS

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Diabetes and Dysfunction
Sexual and Urological Complications Affect Many

Physicians know that diabetes can have profound effects on the health of their patients. But sometimes focusing on the most serious consequences of this debilitating disease can block their view of how it adversely affects a patient’s quality of life in other ways.
J.L. WEBB

Grand Rounds November

Local Physician Helped Lead Successful “Florida Youth Tobacco Education and Prevention Bill” Campaign

Orange County Medical Foundation Launches Campaign to Support UCF College of Medicine Charter Class Scholarship

Broad And Cassel Honored As “Fit-friendly” Company By American Heart Association

The First Central Florida Electronic Medical Records Conference

Arnold Palmer Hospital For Children First In Florida To Use New FDA Approved GORE HELEX Septal Occluder For Treatment Of Common Congenital Heart Defect

Michael R. Lowe, P.A. Welcomes Local Attorney Anna Tarr Spencer

New Surgeon Joins Vascular Institute of Central Florida at Florida Hospital

Heathrow Imaging Opens Outpatient Facility In Lake Mary Florida

Local Infertility Specialist First in Southeastern U.S. to Perform New Robotic Tubal Reversal Surgery for Women


Free Educational Course for CE’s And Networking Event!

Florida Hospital is the First Hospital in the Southeast to Perform Visually Guided Catheter Ablation for Irregular Heartbeats

LRMC Earns Hospital of Choice Award Again

Stroke Survivor Support Group is formed in Clermont

 

Cancer Program Approved with Commendation by the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons

 

 

Titusville Physicians Step up to LEAD Brevard

A Nation Divided Over Health Care? Not So Fast

 

 

Canon U.S.A. Achieves Milestone With The Installation Of Its 2,000th Digital Radiography System

FDA Announces Initiative to Bolster Generic Drug Program

 

 

Growing Role of Medicare in Propping Up Nation’s Medicaid Program

Annual Economic Impact of Chronic Disease on U.S. Economy is $1 Trillion

SamarionSM Unveils Quality Improvement System for Long-Term Care Industry at AHCA/NACL/MECF 58th Annual Convention & Expo


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Physician Spotlight: Dr. Jorge Gomez-Amedor
Growing up in Colombia, Jorge Gomez-Amedor was always interested in science and medicine. He received his B.S. degree at Colegio de Boyaca in Tunja and his medical degree at the National University in Bogota before coming to the United States for training.
KELLY PRICE

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Shepherd’s Hope Provides Healing to Underserved
They always say that everyone complains about the weather --but no one ever does anything about it! The same thing could be said about the deteriorating situation facing the medically uninsured in this country — there is much discussion about it but no viable solution is forthcoming.
KELLY PRICE

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When Errors Happen, Who’s to Blame?
It’s no secret that Florida is one of the fastest growing states around with much of that growth due to retiree relocation. With so many retirees moving in, health care is in huge demand. Likewise, the need for home health will continue to grow as more hospitals are filled and independent minded baby boomers stay home to avoid a nursing or assisted living facility.
GLORIA BUTLER BALDWIN