Lighthouse receives club donation
GFWC Lutz-Land O’ Lakes Woman’s Club member Marsha Gibson (right), who is visually impaired, presented a donation check to Sylvia Perez, CEO of Lighthouse for the Visually Impaired and Blind-Pasco, Hernando and Citrus, on behalf of the club. The money will benefit the Pasco Lighthouse for the Blind Legacy Building Fund.
Florida Hospital now AdventHealth
Florida Hospital facilities, as well as hundreds of physician practices, urgent care centers and other medical sites across the country, are now officially known as AdventHealth, as part of a new consumer-centric brand launch.
Adventist Health System announced several months ago that the organization and its wholly owned hospitals and care sites would adopt the AdventHealth name.
AdventHealth is headquartered in Altamonte Springs and has nearly 50 hospitals and more than 80,000 team members in nearly a dozen states.
There are 30 AdventHealth hospitals and freestanding emergency departments in Florida, providing advanced health care to residents coast-to-coast.
Under one unified brand, consumers can easily identify and navigate the entire system of care.
New programs and initiatives will be launched throughout the year, as part of AdventHealth’s commitment to whole-person health, clinical excellence and making health care easier for consumers to navigate.
Patient reunion
The Heart Institute at Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point hosted a TAVR reunion with many of its TAVR patients.
The get-together celebrated the hospital’s achievement of 121 TAVR (transcatheter aortic valve replacement) procedures.
This minimally invasive surgical procedure repairs the valve without removing the old, damaged valve. It instead wedges a replacement valve into the aortic valve’s place.
The surgery can be called TAVR or TAVI (transcatheter aortic valve implementation).
Dr. Keshav Remireddy, medical director of the TAVR program, said in a release, “Things are happening rapidly in the field of cardiology and we’re not done yet.”
National honor for hospital
AdventHealth Wesley Chapel (formerly Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel) received the 2018 Press Ganey Guardian of Excellence Award for achieving and sustaining excellence in the category of patient experience.
The award is measured through random, voluntary patient surveys, and the scores are measured against hundreds of hospitals across the country.
This is the third time the Wesley Chapel hospital has received the Guardian of Excellence for its inpatient services.
Best hospitals chosen by women
Six AdventHealth (formerly Florida Hospital) locations in the West Florida Division have been named America’s Best Hospitals by the 2019 Women’s Choice Award.
- Wesley Chapel: best for obstetrics and patient safety
- Zephyrhills: best for stroke centers, orthopedics, heart care and patient safety
- Carrollwood: best for bariatric surgery, stroke centers and patient safety
- Tampa: best for bariatric surgery and orthopedics
- Heartland Medical Center: best for orthopedics, heart care and patient safety
For more information on America’s Best Hospitals, visit WomensChoiceAward.com/awarded/healthcare/.
