Conference registration closes Friday!

Friday, December 8, 2023

Conference registration for Clinical Excellence: Caring to Provide the Best in Patient Care closes this Friday the 10th of November.  Register today and join the hundreds of leading and emerging nurse leaders from academic and practice settings that have already done so.  In addition to the keynote presentation, three panels of nurse leaders will share  innovations and best practices for advancing clinical excellence in pre-licensure nursing schools, during new hire onboarding programs, and in the practice setting.  It is not too late to become a conference sponsor and take advantage of this extraordinary opportunity for networking with conference attendees during registration, breakfast, lunch, and the morning and afternoon breaks. Don't miss what is certain to be a truly exceptional and professionally relevant educational conference and opportunity for building relationships with colleagues that have shared interests. The program will start at 8:00 am and will conclude at 4:30 pm. The Nursing Consortium of Florida is especially grateful to conference platinum sponsors HealthStream®, the Memorial Healthcare System, and the University of Miami Hospital and Clinics and to all those supporting our upcoming conference as sponsors.

McKinsey reports on the gathering storm: The threat to employee healthcare benefits

A recent article by McKinsey & Company looks at the coming impact of inflation and other factors that could significantly raise annual employer healthcare costs and impact vulnerable household finances. The once-in-a-century pandemic thrust the healthcare industry into the teeth of the storm. The combination of accelerating affordability challenges, access issues exacerbated by clinical staff shortages and COVID-19, and limited population-wide progress on outcomes is ominous. This gathering storm has the potential to reorder the healthcare industry and put nearly half of the profit pools at risk. Those who thrive will tap into the $1 trillion of known improvement opportunities by redesigning their organizations for speed-accelerating productivity improvements, reshaping their portfolio, innovating new business models to refashion care, and reallocating constrained resources. The healthcare industry has lagged behind other industries in applying these practices; players who are able to do so in this crisis could set themselves up for success in the coming years. Please click here to read more.

Four Consortium member schools recognized in Military Times Best for Vets Colleges, 2023

In the current issue of the Military Times, four Consortium member universities are recognized in the magazine’s annual special feature on “Best for Vets: Colleges 2023.” They are: Florida International University, Nova Southeastern University, Broward College, and Florida National Univeristy. The recognition underscores each of these institutions’ unwavering commitment to supporting military service members and veterans. The Military Times Best for Vets: Colleges is the largest and most comprehensive rankings of schools for military service members and veterans. The ranking features individual web pages for each individual school that makes the list. These pages include detailed information about the school, their services available to veterans and practical information that will help veterans make important decisions about their career planning and how to use the education benefits they earned through military service.

Broward Health and Memorial Healthcare collaborate to open freestanding Emergency Department in Sunrise

Broward Health recently hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for a freestanding emergency department in Sunrise, the first to be opened by Broward Health. In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, Consortium members Broward Health and Memorial Healthcare System will partner to ensure exceptional emergency care at the new freestanding emergency department. “Sunrise has long been considered a medical desert, lacking necessary medical services for the residents who call that city home,” said Shane Strum, Broward Health President & CEO. “We explored a number of ways to mitigate the gap in healthcare and are proud to be teaming up with Memorial Healthcare System’s Joe DiMaggio’s Children's Hospital to bring high-quality emergency care to adults and children who call Sunrise home.” Broward Health anticipates that almost 15,000 emergency patients will be treated at the new facility annually. Please click here to read more. 

Arthritis Foundation and Cleveland Clinic to Build National Osteoarthritis Imaging Center for Clinical Trials

The Arthritis Foundation has named Cleveland Clinic as the future home for its Osteoarthritis Imaging Center (OIC), designed to become the largest repository in the country for imaging data from post-traumatic osteoarthritis clinical trials and therapies. The OIC will coordinate imaging for all future multicenter osteoarthritis clinical trials across the U.S. that are run through the foundation’s Osteoarthritis Clinical Trial Network. Images from these studies will be sent to the OIC for interpretation and analysis. Researchers and physicians can reference them in a central location for future studies and patient care. The Osteoarthritis Imaging Center library will house data from clinicians and researchers working on treatments and care, as well as institutions conducting clinical trials. Please click here to read more.

FIU ranked No. 4 best public university, according to Wall Street Journal

Florida International University, a Consortium member, has been ranked as No. 4 among public universities and as No. 29 among all universities in the nation, in the America’s Best Colleges 2024 rankings recently published by the Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal also ranks FIU in the top 10 overall, both for social mobility and student experience. The rankings were compiled by The Wall Street Journal and College Pulse, in collaboration with the independent market research firm Statista. The America's Best Colleges 2024 ranking aims to guide prospective students across the nation while recognizing the colleges doing an outstanding job in higher education. Please click here to read more.

Holy Cross Orthopedic Institute offers NEW Ortho Walk-In Clinic

Beginning Monday, November 27, Consortium member Holy Cross Orthopedic Institute will provide a new walk-in clinic on the second floor of their facility at 5597 N Dixie Highway, Fort Lauderdale FL 33334. Hours are 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm. Services will include: Bone, joint, muscle injury occurring within the last two weeks, such as Sports injuries, Swollen joints, Ankle sprains or strains, Knee sprains or strains, Hand, elbow, wrist, shoulder injuries; Broken bones without an open wound over the fracture location; New back pain (two weeks or less; with no previous history of pain). Patients 14 and older are welcome. As a walk-in clinic, the facility is not prepared to see patients whose insurance requires referrals, workers comp injuries, or auto/liability cases. Contact the clinic directly at 954-958-4800 for specific information or questions about conditions treated. Please click here to read more.

New imaging technology puts Lee Health at the forefront of patient care

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