April 23, 2024
Healthcare
The Night Nurse
Lisa Nummi's pediatrician encouraged her to go into nursing. “So I went to nursing school and immediately fell in love. I was hooked,” she says. At Tampa General Hospital she kept ratcheting up the intensity, working in pediatrics, then pediatric intensive care, then the pediatric emergency room. Eventually she became a flight nurse paramedic, treating injured patients in a helicopter whirring through the sky.
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Published on 4/23/2024
Running the Railroad
By the time she was 12, Kelly Cullen knew what she wanted to do: “I wanted to help people.” Since she was 8, she had been helping her beloved Aunt Claire, a nurse, take care of Cullen's grandmother who was paralyzed by a stroke.
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Published on 4/23/2024
The Most Trusted
Recently, Wendi Goodson-Celerin was going through her late mother's things when she came across something that Wendi had scribbled in little-girl handwriting way back in elementary school: I want to be a nurse. I want to help people.
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Published on 4/23/2024
The Son of Immigrants
Growing up in Miami, David Zambrana was the child of Cuban immigrants. “Working hard and making a difference was at the root of what we heard at the dinner table,” he recalls. “My mom used to say, ‘Don't walk into a room and walk out unless you leave it better than you found it.' You know — ‘It's a gift to be in this country. Don't be a burden on anyone. You're going to go to school because you're going to do better than I did,' was basically the mantra of how my sister and I were raised.”
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Published on 4/19/2024
From Bedside to C-Suite
Audrey Gregory knows how to treat an alligator bite. Stephanie Conners learned fast that being a nurse takes guts. Martha McGill held two pediatric nursing jobs at the same time. And Lisa Nummi knows all the ways a hospital is different at night than it is during the day.
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Published on 4/17/2024
The Air Traffic Controller
Audrey Gregory married her high school boyfriend, who was in the military. She needed a career where she could be mobile and work anywhere. Her first nursing job was in a small hospital near Fort Stewart, Georgia, where her husband was stationed.
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Published on 4/16/2024
Building Boom
In 2021, Alabama construction firm Robins & Morton opened an office in Tampa, its third in Florida, to serve the growing demand for hospital construction here. The firm had seen requests for proposals triple from 2019 to 2020. The company's health care revenue from Florida grew 30% in a four-year span.
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Published on 4/16/2024
Healing Harmony
For members of Moffitt's employee band, making music provides an escape from the rigors of medicine.
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Published on 1/11/2024
Early Warning System
AdventHealth is using genetic testing to catch some cancers earlier, at more treatable stages.
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Published on 1/10/2024
Branching Out
UF Health ushered in a big change to Northeast Florida health care when it completed its acquisition of Flagler Health+ in early September.
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Published on 12/31/2023
A Hospital Reborn
This month, Memorial Healthcare, the south Broward public health district, marks significant progress in its $88-million renovation of 70-year-old Memorial Regional Hospital, the system's flagship hospital.
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Published on 12/31/2023
Historic Expansion
Pensacola-based Baptist Health Care's new $650-million hospital campus opened in late September. It is the largest single capital investment in a health care facility in Northwest Florida history.
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Published on 12/29/2023
Emergency Upgrade
Emergency departments often serve as something of a front door for a hospital. They represent the first impression and experience that many patients will have with the institution.
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Published on 12/21/2023
Florida's First Orthopedic Hospital
It's the first stand-alone orthopedic hospital in the southeastern United States. And when the Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute opened in August, it marked the beginning of a new era of orthopedic care in Florida.
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Published on 12/20/2023
TGH and Tampa's Next Big Thing
At times, John Couris, the president and CEO of Tampa General Hospital, sounds more like a chamber of commerce pitchman than the president and CEO of a growing hospital network.
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Published on 12/18/2023
Leaps and Bounds
Hong Potomski is named after Hong Kong, the place where she was born while her parents were living in a refugee camp. They had to flee Vietnam as Communists were taking over at the end of the Vietnam War.
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Published on 12/18/2023
Entrepreneurial Itch
When opportunity knocked, Sherrel Sampson opened the door, unlocking a new passion, career direction and business of her own.
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Published on 12/13/2023
Under One Roof
Sarasota Memorial Health Care System is expanding clinical research, graduate medical education programs and is launching a new simulation center for hands-on training in a $75-million Research and Education Institute under construction.
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Published on 12/11/2023
Protecting Nurses from Violence
The head of the Florida Nurses Association vividly remembers the first time a patient attacked her. He kicked Willa Fuller in the chest, knocking the wind out of her and disorienting her for the rest of the day.
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Published on 11/30/2023
Detecting Dementia
Researchers at the Florida State University College of Medicine have identified a potential low-cost method for predicting if a person is at risk of developing dementia.
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Published on 11/30/2023
Life-Like Learning
Tampa General Hospital and the USF Health College of Nursing are investing $4.4 million in building a nursing simulation lab to offer advanced training for nurses, marking the college's 50th anniversary celebration with a leap into futuristic training technologies.
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Published on 11/30/2023
No Barriers
Able Trust is a non-profit organization that works to connect Floridians with disabilities to career opportunities. Recently, the Able Trust teamed up with the University of South Florida's nursing college for a first-of-its-kind summer program to introduce high school students who never thought they could pursue a career in nursing to see the possibilities.
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Published on 11/30/2023
Paving a Path
Each semester, more than 200 people apply for 106 spots in Seminole State College's nursing program, but the school has been hard-pressed to accommodate additional students. It simply doesn't have enough physical space.
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Published on 11/30/2023
Send Nurse Rover on Over
Earlier this year, Orlando Health launched a pilot program at a series of its hospitals using Epic Rover, a mobile application to aid patient care and improve workflow efficiency for nurses.
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Published on 11/30/2023
RNs, In Demand
Pensacola Christian College's School of Nursing was founded in 1977. Denise McCollim is PCC's dean of Arts and Sciences and holds a doctor of nursing practice degree. Heather Hartkopf is a registered nurse and chair of PCC's Nursing Department. In a recent conversation, they discussed nursing education and workforce trends.
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Published on 11/30/2023
