Homemade comfort
Kids at the AdventHealth Tampa Pediatric Unit and Emergency Room now have the comfort of soft, homemade fleece blankets because of the generosity of 25 volunteers.
Volunteers arrived with fabric, needles and thread to AdventHealth Tampa’s Pepin Heart Center to support Blake’s Blankets, an initiative dedicated to providing comfort to pediatric patients, according to a news release.
The initiative was founded by AdventHealth Tampa’s Sandra Burnetter, director of pediatric services, and Rose Trier, a critical care lead in the pediatric emergency room, in memory of Rose’s son, Blake, who passed away in 2022. He had cerebral palsy, was wheelchair-bound and nonverbal.
The hospital is planning its next Blake’s Blankets volunteer event in September and it will be open to the public. Each volunteer session provides community service hours for students.
For more information, visit AdventHealth.com/hospital/adventhealth-tampa/events.
Resident doctors welcomed
AdventHealth welcomed 48 new resident doctors into its health care system with a White Coat Ceremony, marking the start of their post-graduate training. The white coat symbolizes the new residents entering into the medical profession, and their commitment to professionalism and empathy in medicine.
The new doctors will train with experts in various Graduate Medical Education (GME) programs at AdventHealth’s West Florida hospitals.
AdventHealth leaders also honored the first graduating class of Family Medicine residents from AdventHealth Sebring.
The GME programs include general surgery and OB/GYN track at AdventHealth Tampa, and a Family Medicine Residency Program at AdventHealth Wesley Chapel.
Over the next three years, AdventHealth West Florida plans to graduate 88 residents through its programs in Sebring, Tampa and Wesley Chapel.
