Stepping up for seniors
CARES (Community Aging & Retirement Services) was the recipient of monies raised by the Pasco County Tax Collector’s five offices through its monthly charitable giving program. CARES is a Pasco County-based organization that provides services to seniors to keep them in their homes and be independent. The community stepped up in a big way to assist in the CARES Senior Health Clinic’s daily operations. The clinic is staffed by volunteer medical professionals devoted to helping low-income people ages 55 and older who need health care services. Pasco County Tax Collector Mike Fasano (far right) and staff members present a check for $6,749.88 to Jemith Rosa, CARES president and CEO (holding sign, right).
Mental health education
NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Pasco County offers free education classes to those diagnosed with a mental illness, and families and friends.
The Peer-to-Peer Class is a 10-session educational program for adults with mental illness who are looking to better understand their condition and journey toward recovery.
The Family-to-Family program is 12 sessions for family, significant other and friends of people living with mental illness. It is an evidence-based program.
Research shows that it can significantly improve the coping and problem-solving abilities of the people closest to an individual living with a mental health condition.
Classes are taught by a trained team of people who have been there, and includes presentations, discussions and interactive exercises. Everything is confidential. NAMI does not recommend a specific medical therapy or treatment approach.
Programs are offered in East and West Pasco.
Visit NAMIPasco.org to check the calendar for locations and times.
For information, call the NAMI Pasco information line at (727) 992-9653.
Robotic guidance system
Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel is the first hospital in the Tampa Bay area, and only the second in Florida, to offer the Globus ExcelsiusGPS surgical robotic guidance system through its neurospine program.
The system is the first and only robotic platform for spine surgery that combines surgical navigation and robotic guidance, and improve accuracy and patient care for precise minimally invasive spine surgeries by using robotics and navigation.
The system provides real time imaging to physicians for increased safety and accuracy; more precise positioning of screws during surgery, less exposure to radiation; and potentially shorter surgery and recovery time for patients.
The hospital’s neurospine program launched in October 2017 in response for a growing need from the community and a desire for patients to have a long-term solution for spinal pain.
Florida Hospital gets name change
Florida Hospital and its parent company, Adventist Health System, will be renamed AdventHealth effective Jan. 2, according to a news release from the hospital’s parent company, Adventist Health System.
There will be no change in ownership.
The rebrand will make it easier for customers to distinguish AdventHealth’s care locations and service, the news release stated.
Nearly 50 hospital campuses, with more than 80,000 employees, will be unified under the single name.
“Becoming AdventHealth allows us to be a fully integrated and distinguishable health system across all aspects of the care continuum, while also speaking to our Christian healing ministry, message of wholeness and our rich Seventh-day Adventist roots,” Terry Shaw, president and chief executive officer of Advent Health System, the hospital’s parent company, said in the news release.
A transition campaign with television and print advertisements will be featured in September, in various media markets nationwide.
Signs and other visual elements at hospitals and other care facilities will be changed in January.
