November 2009 Feature Articles:
November 14th is World Diabetes Day
November is American Diabetes Month
World Diabetes Day was created in 1991 by the International Diabetes Federation and the World Health Organization in response to growing concerns about the increasing health threat that diabetes now poses. World Diabetes Day became an official United Nations Day in 2007. This year sees the first of a five-year campaign that will address the growing need for diabetes education and prevention programs.
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Cassidy Cancer Center’s Dr. Robert H. Cassell earns national recognition
Winter Haven Hospital is pleased to announce that Robert H. Cassell, M.D., Ph.D., medical director at the hospital’s Cassidy
Cancer Center, has earned recognition in the Best Doctors in America® national database.
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Winter Haven Hospital Foundation: Compassion, Innovation, Trust
Winter Haven Hospital was founded in 1926. History records that the fledgling hospital spent four years in its original building before moving in 1930 to a new facility at 223 SW Seventh Street.
From those humble beginnings, the hospital has today grown into a major medical facility serving east Polk and parts of Highlands and Hardee counties. Its multiple facilities provide care to more than 17,000 admitted patients; more than 2,000 newborn babies and more than 55 ,000 people who visit the hospital’s emergency room or family health centers.
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Winter Haven Hospital Foundation celebrates Gala’s 20th Anniversary
The Winter Haven Hospital Foundation will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its Gala. The Gala is Polk County’s signature fundraising event and is the Foundation’s major fundraiser each year.
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Hospital Center to Sponsor First Mental Health Program
August 9, 2009
Winter Haven Hospital's Center for Behavioral Health is sponsoring the first mental health first aid certification program in Polk County, in collaboration with Creating Today Inc., on Sept. 1 and 2.
Attending the workshop will be police officers, primary care physicians, nurses, educators, clergy, social workers and members of the public to improve mental health literacy helping to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental illness.
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June 16, 2009
June 30, 2009
2009 Nurses of the Year
Winter Haven Hospital Honors Its Volunteers…
‘Hands that Serve, Hearts that Care’
Arpil 24, 2009
The Winter Haven Hospital Volunteers were recognized for their outstanding service and accomplishments at the Hospital’s Annual Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon held at the Lake Ashton Golf Club Ballroom. The Special Event was attended by over 150 volunteers and hosted by the Hospital’s Executive Management Staff.
Many Volunteers were recognized for their outstanding contribution of service during the past year: The top honor … the Prestigious Volunteer Spirit Award Recipients were: Anna Kauffman, Cardiac Rehab Department; Adam Gray, Patient Information Desk; Joyce Lawson, Outpatient Rehab Center; Shelley DiNunzio, Nursing Recruitment & Retention
The Event Program was full and included: The Installation of Officers for the Winter Haven Hospital Auxiliary, The Auxiliary’s 2nd Annual Youth Scholarship Awards; The Presentation of the Volunteer Services Annual Financial Gift Checks total $140,000: $130,000 was the 2nd payment on the Auxiliary’s Pledge of $1 million dollars for the New Grande Lobby; and, an additional $10,000 was for the Endowed Scholarship Fund.
Winter Haven Hospital to celebrate nursing Magnet™
status at Feb. 24th event
February 17, 2009
Winter Haven Hospital will officially celebrate its designation as a nursing Magnet™ hospital with an event on Feb. 24 at 10 a.m. The public is invited to join hospital staff and community leaders in commemoration of the achievement at the Winter Haven Hospital Healing Garden.
The hospital is the first in Polk County to achieve
Magnet™ status, which has been granted to approximately
5 percent of the nation’s hospitals by the American Nurses
Credentialing Center.
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Winter Haven Hospital's Cassidy Cancer Center welcomes Dr. Robert Cassell
January 27, 2009
Winter Haven Hospital is pleased to announce that Robert H. Cassell, M.D., has joined the hospital’s new Cassidy Cancer Center as Medical Director.
As Medical Director, Dr. Cassell will oversee clinical programs at the center and also will serve as an associate professor of medicine at the University of Florida College of Medicine. Through its affiliation with UF, the Cassidy Cancer Center gives patients access to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment locally as well as access to clinical trial therapies offered at the nationally recognized academic medical center in Gainesville.
read more about Dr. Cassell at the Cassidy Cancer Center
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