In the News

  • ORs go high-tech, boosting safety, cost savings
    Sun-Sentinel
    5/31/13 5:32 pm EDT

    In the information age, operating rooms across South Florida are getting a high-tech makeover, and patients are reaping the benefits. Among them: less time under anesthesia, better protections against medical mistakes and potential cost savings, say surgeons and hospital officials. "This is the future," said Joe Stuczynski, chief financial officer at Memorial Hospital Pembroke. "It's very exciting."

  • Memorial Regional Hospital prepares for mass shootings
    Sun-Sentinel
    5/29/13 5:24 pm EDT

    The blood, wounds and anguished screams were all make-believe, but the doctors and nurses were real. They were training Wednesday on how to respond to a mass shooting at Memorial Regional Hospital.


  • Get Ahead of Lung Cancer
    NBC 6
    5/21/13 2:04 pm EDT

    Did you know lung cancer kills more people than any other cancer? Dr. Mark Block from Memorial Health Systems tells Kelly Craig how they can help you detect it earlier with a simple screening test.

  • Fishing Trip Good Therapy for Teen with Cystic Fibrosis
    Sun-Sentinel
    5/16/13 11:10 am EDT

    For Andrade, the fishing trip was a type of therapy, both physical and mental, and not just because he was accompanied by two massage and two respiratory therapists. Hoopes is a nurse who specializes in massage therapy for the Pediatric Palliative Care team at Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital in Hollywood. Helping critically ill patients to better manage their pain and improve their health through physical, psychological and spiritual care is a new way of thinking.

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  • Boy celebrates life after near drowning
    WSVN Ch. 7
    4/5/13 1:04 pm EDT

    A year ago, a South Florida boy was left fighting for his life, and now he's marking the one-year anniversary to honor his personal team of heroes. A happy, healthy 5-year-old, Jiovani Hidalgo, returned to Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital in Hollywood on Friday for a special expression of gratitude.

  • Medical Reports: Too Young to Die
    Fox WSVN Ch. 7
    2/28/13 4:32 am EST

    Alexandra was a normal, healthy 21-year-old college student until a rare and scary moment with her heart led her to Memorial Cardiac and Vascular Institute.

  • Time means muscle after heart attack
    South Florida Hospital News
    2/28/13 4:22 am EST

    Every year about 935,000 Americans have a heart attack. Of these, 610,000 are first-time heart attacks. About 15 percent of people who have heart attacks will die from it. As the leading cardiac catheter and angioplasty provider in Broward County, Memorial Cardiac and Vascular Institute (MCVI) is working to lower that ratio.

  • Miami medicine goes digital
    EMR Industry
    2/25/13 4:11 am EST

    The federal government is pushing doctors and hospitals to use electronic health records to cut wasteful spending and improve patient care while protecting patient privacy — sending digital information via encrypted systems, for example, rather than regular email...Memorial Healthcare System, a Hollywood-based hospital operator, is one of the first “nodes” that will join the statewide network. “We anticipate our state connection to go live by the end of this month,” said Forest Blanton, chief

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  • Tour de Broward raises funds for Children's Hospital
    ABC WPLG Ch. 10
    2/24/13 4:16 am EST

    The Tour de Broward kicked off Sunday to benefit the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital. Multiple bike rides and runs are happening until 1 p.m. Sunday at Miramar Regional Park. All of the events will be raising money for the Cardiac Care Center at the hospital. The center is home to one of two Pediatric Heart Transplant programs in South Florida. The Tour de Broward is trying to raise $300,000 for the hospital.

  • Heart transplant patients are living longer, better, thanks to advancements
    The Miami Herald
    2/22/13 4:04 am EST

    Memorial Regional’s Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital performed its first heart transplant in December 2010 and has transplanted eight since, said Dr. Maryanne Chrisant, medical director of the heart transplant and cardiomyopathy programs. “Cardiac transplantation is still regarded as not experimental but certainly more extreme care, and it may not be the right therapy for everyone or every family,” she said.