Find Stellar Health Care in Greater Fort Lauderdale
Health care in Fort Lauderdale and the surrounding communities continues to expand.
Greater Fort Lauderdale is awash in growing medical systems that include nationally recognized pediatric services, extensive long-term therapy facilities and the latest medical research programs.
Residents looking for high quality health care in Fort Lauderdale and its surrounding communities can count on excellent services provided by three major health care groups: Broward Health, anchored by the 716-bed Broward Medical Center, is the largest hospital in Broward County; HCA Healthcare, which has five hospitals in the Fort Lauderdale area; and Memorial Healthcare System, which has been serving the public since 1953.
This part of the Gold Coast is additionally where you will find the Cleveland Clinic in Weston, Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale and Baptist Health, the largest nonprofit health care organization in the region.
Patients needing long-term acute, in-depth care can start their unique healing journey at the Kindred Hospital South Florida locations in Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale, which has a rehabilitation unit.
Highly Specialized Pediatric Care in Hollywood
Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, a trusted health partner for youngsters and their families, has hit another milestone in its 30-year history – a grand slam, providing highly specialized pediatric care with the expansion of its Hollywood location from four to eight floors, doubling the space to 400,000 square feet.
In keeping with the hospital’s theme of “Power of Play,” floors five through eight are named Imagine, Rhythm, Adventure and Grow, respectively.
The hospital’s growth allows Memorial Healthcare System to meet the continuous demand for specialized services, with new surgical capabilities, treatments, and patient and family programs added to its mix of already established offerings. Patients will officially move into the new $166 million space in early November.
“Everything we do and every decision we make focuses on what is best for children and families in our community. We listen to our patients, their families, pediatricians and the community in general and incorporate this feedback into our growth plans,” says Caitlin Stella, CEO of Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital.
“Our delivery of care and development of new programs and services are aligned with our commitment to creating and maintaining the highest standards of care for children – the care they deserve.”
The cheerful and colorful environment is home to the hospital’s first neurosurgical operating suite with intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging, a cutting-edge technology offering real-time MRI in a surgical environment, specialized to view the brain.
“Everything we do and every decision we make focuses on what is best for children and families in our community.”
Caitlin Stella, CEO of Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital
Penthouse of Play
A comprehensive cardiac care area on the sixth floor is designed to optimize safety and quality and improve clinical outcomes by bringing together complex procedures in one location to minimize moving cardiac patients.
The Helene and Stephen Weicholz Pediatric Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit, housing 20 cardiac ICU beds, is located here to help young hearts beat stronger.
The top floor is a penthouse of play and houses the nation’s 14th Garth Brooks Teammates for Kids Child Life Zone, made possible in part by a generous donation from the Finker-Frenkel Family Foundation.
In a safe and creative environment, children and their families can take a temporary break from their hospital room and enjoy a daily itinerary of activities and exhibits, expressive and therapeutic play areas, production space for the in-house Joe D. TV and open places to host yoga, music, art and other events.
Groundbreaking Research
Helping drive the fight against cancer, the new AutoNation Cell Therapy and Cancer Research Center at Cleveland Clinic Florida recently celebrated its opening in Weston. The center will conduct groundbreaking research of cell-based therapies for cancer and evaluate the outcomes, provide regenerative research education and support needed scientific regenerative medicine research.
Auto retailer AutoNation, which is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, has donated more than $35 million to national and local philanthropic organizations through its Drive Pink mission to help fight cancer.
“We’re very appreciative of this pivotal gift from AutoNation, a company that has been a driving force in the community to end cancer,” says Dr. Joseph Iannotti, Cleveland Clinic Florida region chief of staff and chief academic and innovation officer.
“This seed funding will help support the people, equipment and technology needed to conduct new groundbreaking research on our campus.”
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