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In this issue of Here's To Your Health we have
featured our new significant initiatives to enhance our Cancer Care
services.
These enhancements will be remarkable, giving us
state of the art equipment to more accurately pinpoint and kill cancerous
tissue and not harm "normal tissue" which often causes
uncomfortable, ill effects for patients.
We have engaged consultants to assist us with our
planning for open-heart surgery and other essential services. We
anticipate providing a new main lobby and making outpatient services more
easily accessible on the first floor of the hospital. These will be
major renovations over the next 3 years.
We are pleased to have added Dr. Angela Alfaro to our
Family Health Center in Winter Haven. Dr. Alfaro joins Dr. Donald
Clark at the Clinic located at 100 Avenue I., N.E. (292-4077).
We have assisted 18 students with scholarships to
become healthcare professionals in the last year as a result of our
Foundation’s new Scholarship Endowment Fund. Sponsors and attendees
of our last two Fall Galas have helped us build this Fund and we are very
grateful for their generosity and support.
We are extremely fortunate to have 24 new graduate
nurses join us from the Polk Community College Nursing Program. The
Polk Community College nursing program has an exceptional reputation
throughout the state. A major indicator of their success has been the
extremely high pass rate their nursing graduates attain on the state
nursing licensure exam. We are very pleased to have Sharon Davis, PhD, RN
the Director of the P.C.C. Nursing Program, on our Board of Trustees.
In addition to the new graduates from P.C.C., four
Filipino nurses have joined us and they are doing remarkably well. We
anticipate getting another 36 Filipino nurses in 2004. Our numerous
strategies to fill nursing vacancies are really showing positive results.
As always, Here's To Your Health features the numerous health screening and
educational programs that we offer to the Community. We welcome your
attendance and your valued input on programs or services that you believe
would be beneficial.
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