Graduates receive special blessing
AdventHealth Dade City hosted a Blessing of the Hands ceremony, at the Dade City hospital and AdventHealth Zephyrhills, for 19 employees who graduated from the Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) program. The event signifies the beginning of the graduates’ clinical experience.
Training in the program is free of charge and open to the community.
In collaboration with Aguilas International Technical Instiute, students get paid to attend a five-week course and learn a clinical curriculum to prepare them for the CNA test.
Upon graduation, participants are hired by AdventHealth Dade City. Many of the graduates worked in other roles at the hospitals while completing their training.
The next CNA training opportunity will begin on May 9.
For information and to apply, visit Careers.adventhealth.com.
Lighthouse president speaks
Sheryl Brown, president of Lighthouse for the Blind & Low Vision, recently spoke to members of the GFWC Lutz-Land O’ Lakes Woman’s Club about the services the organization provides.
Lighthouse guides the blind and vision-impaired with training to independence, through at-home living and navigating the present-day workplace.
Woman’s club member Marsha Gibson, who is legally blind, has long advocated for Lighthouse and is the club’s informal liaison.
Gibson demonstrated some of the new special aids and electronic devices now available and very specific to the needs of the blind and low-vision population.
Woman’s club president Elayne Bassinger honored Gibson for her participation in numerous club activities and particularly for her outreach on behalf of the blind over many years.
For information on the woman’s club, visit GFWCLutzLandOLakesWomansClub.org or its Facebok page.
Hospital gets state award
St. Joseph’s Hospital-North in Lutz is the recipient of a 2021 Jean Byers Memorial Award for Excellence in Cancer Registration, according to a news release.
The award is given by the Florida Cancer Data System (FCDS) at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine to facilities that had 100% accuracy on data submission.
St. Joseph’s met or exceeded national quality standards for timeliness and completeness of cancer reporting over a defined, specific time period.
The FCDS is the statewide population-based cancer surveillance system under the guidance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Data submitted by facilities is used to learn about cancer trends and causes; it can be used to identify cancer clusters.
At St. Joseph’s, cancer data submission is done through a centralized Cancer Data Registry team that provides specific information regarding cancer patients for all five St. Joseph’s Hospitals in Hillsborough County.
“This is the sixth Jean Byers Memorial Award received by St. Joseph’s Hospital-North,” said Tom Garthwaite, hospital president, in the release.
“The award demonstrates the commitment of the medical staff, nurses, imaging, pathology and surgical teams to continuing the ongoing fight against cancer,” said Garthwaite.
Published April 06, 2022
