Breast cancer awareness
In recognition of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Florida Department of Health in Pasco County encourages all women to receive regular screenings to promote early detection and treatment of breast cancer.
Women should talk to their health care providers about their individual risk factors and the frequency of receiving mammograms, as well as complete any recommended mammography screenings.
Women can help lower their risk by:
- Maintaining a healthy weight
- Being physically active
- Limiting or avoiding alcohol
- Choosing to breast-feed
- Quitting smoking and/or vaping
The Florida Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program provides access to the screenings doctors recommend.
The screenings are free or low-cost for those who meet the program eligibility requirements.
For information, call the Department of Health-Pasco at (727) 619-0369.
Screening mammograms
Tower Radiology wants to bring awareness to the importance of mammograms by offering women $50 screening mammograms. The promotion is for the month of October only.
The offer excludes 3D mammography. Patients must bring a prescription.
Also, for every new ‘like’ on Tower Radiology’s Facebook page in October, $2 will be donated to the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk.
For information, call (813) 379-2691, or visit TowerRadioloyCenters.com.
AdventHealth named partner
AdventHealth has been named an exclusive health partner of Metro Development Group, the developers behind Pasco County’s Connected City
The partnership is a three-phase plan to promote healthy living, including:
- Tele-health services inside the home
- A wellness district accessible from the Crystal Lagoon, an available to residents and destination patients
- Plans for an offsite Emergency Room
Some pilot programs are underway from Philips, a health tech leader, that will design, test and launch new products for homeowners.
Donate to breast cancer foundation
The Florida Breast Cancer Foundation will be the featured charity at the Pasco County Tax Collector’s offices during October.
The foundation’s main objectives are to advocate on behalf of patients, educate the public on all aspects of breast cancer, and to provide funds for research seeking new treatments and, ultimately, a cure for breast cancer.
The End Breast Cancer specialty tag will be available, and cash donations also will be accepted.
For information, visit PascoTaxes.com.
Study on ER manuals
Oak Hill Hospital’s Dr. Wayne Simmons, first-year anesthesiology resident, and Dr. Jeffrey Huang, program director of the hospital’s anesthesiology residency, published a peer review manuscript entitled, “Operating Room Emergency Manuals Improve Patient Safety: A Systematic Review.”
The aim of the review was to highlight the latest movements surrounding emergency manual implementation nationally and abroad within perioperative medicine, with a focus on studies linking the emergency manuals to patient safety.
An emergency manual is a tool made to command all resources at hand in order to provide an anesthesia delivery plan, in conjunction with members of the anesthesia care team and operating room personnel in the aid of decision-making.
Dr. Huang participated last year in an emergency manual simulation instructor-training course in China.
The basis of the training course was that optimal outcomes in crises require that critical steps are performed in a timely manner.
Simulation workshops, demonstrations and training competitions have been tested and proven as effective ways to promote multidisciplinary simulation training and implementation of operating room emergency manuals in China.
Cancer center’s new physicians
The Advanced Cancer Treatment Centers at 14535 Cortez Blvd., in Brooksville, now has these physicians on staff:
- Dr. Clayton Elliott Alonso has joined the oncology staff
- Dr. Aaron Denson is on the medical oncology and hematology staff
- Dr. Peter Zavitsanos has joined the radiation oncology staff
For information, call (352) 596-3622.
Hospital names CEO
HCA West Florida has announced Regina (Gina) Temple as president and CEO for Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point.
Temple joins HCA Healthcare and Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point from San Antonio, Texas, where for the past three years she has had executive leadership roles with the Baptist Health System. Most recently, she was the president of Mission Trail Baptist Hospital.
Prior to that, Temple served as the Baptist Health System Texas Group chief operating officer, and chief operating officer of North Central Baptist Hospital.
Temple earned her doctorate from Walden University, a master’s degree in public administration from the University of West Florida, and a Bachelor of Nursing from the University of South Alabama.
