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BayCare Names New Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Ambulatory Care and Clinical Integration
BayCare has named Jacquelyn B. Cawley, DO the new vice president and chief medical officer for Ambulatory Care and Clinical Integration. In this position, she will lead strategies to ensure high-quality care delivery in the ambulatory and post-acute settings.
St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital First Children’s Hospital in Southeast to Use Virtual Reality Visualization Platform
Pediatric brain and heart surgeons at St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital are using evolutionary virtual reality technology to guide patients through a 360-degree model of their anatomy to explain complex conditions and treatment options in a way they can understand.
BayCare Names New Vice President of Mission and Ethics
BayCare Health System has named Colleen M. Walters the vice president of Mission and Ethics. Walters will provide executive leadership to ensure a successful integration, assessment and development of all mission, ethics and pastoral care activities across the system.
Two More BayCare Hospitals Become Breast Milk Depot Sites
BayCare has partnered with the Mothers’ Milk Bank of Florida to offer the first hospital-based breast milk donation sites in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties. For added convenience, local moms can now support other families and infants by bringing their extra breast milk to the milk depots at Morton Plant Hospital in Clearwater and St. Joseph’s Women’s Hospital in Tampa.
St. Joseph’s Women’s Hospital Celebrates International Kangaroo Care Awareness Day
On May 15, the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at St. Joseph’s Women’s Hospital celebrated the special bond between babies and their parents by participating in International Kangaroo Care Awareness Day. This global event encourages the practice of kangaroo care, which provides continuous skin-to-skin contact between mother or father and baby.
St. Anthony’s Triathlon Welcomes World-Class and Amateur Athletes from Around the World on April 26 – 28
The 36th Annual St. Anthony’s Triathlon returns to St. Petersburg Sunday, April 28. Triathlon weekend, April 26-28, includes the Sports and Fitness Expo, the Meek & Mighty Triathlon, Sprint Triathlon and the Olympic distance race.
St. Joseph’s Women’s Hospital Begins $9.4 Million NICU Expansion and OB Renovation
St. Joseph’s Women’s Hospital has started construction on a $9.4 million project that includes an expansion of its Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and renovation of the Obstetrics Unit. The 16,500-square-foot project is expected to be complete in February 2020.
BayCare Medical Group Welcomes Gloria Santayana, DO
Gloria Santayana, DO, has joined BayCare Medical Group and is now accepting new patients (age 18 and older) at 2470 Bloomingdale Ave., Suite 123, Valrico, FL 33596. Dr. Santayana is board certified in family medicine and fluent in Spanish.
BayCare Medical Group Welcomes Pascal Spehar, MD, FACS
Pascal Spehar, MD, FACS, has joined BayCare Medical Group at 1601 W. Timberlane Drive, Suite 100, in Plant City, as well as the medical staff at South Florida Baptist Hospital. He is now accepting new patients age 18 and older. He is a board-certified general surgeon.
BayCare Medical Group Welcomes Ileana M. Acevedo, MD
Ileana M. Acevedo, MD, joined BayCare Medical Group and is now accepting new patients (age 18 and older) at 12780 Race Track Road, Suite 300, Tampa, FL 33626. Dr. Acevedo is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases and fluent in Spanish.
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