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Harbor Hills' Bella Vista
Enjoy striding the first tee of the superbly crafted Lloyd Clifton par-72 Harbor Hills Golf Course and gazing at its verdant fairways, hilly bunkers and emerald greens rising from the landscape like bread baking in an oven. Revel especially in an early-morning round, when dew hugs the blades of grassy fringes.
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Are You Ready For Some Football?
After months of stressful work, everyone deserves a little break. For any football fan, there’s absolutely no better way to make use of that much-needed vacation time than a lavish trip to two of the most important sporting events of the year, the 2009 Super Bowl and the 2009 BCS National Championship, both hosted right here in Florida. Whether your preference is professional or college football, Glass Entertainment Management offers elite packages to these two culminating events of arguably the best, and most thrilling, sport around.
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Health Benefits of Omega-3 is Rapidly Increasing Worldwide
The steadily growing acceptance of the biological importance and general health benefits of omega-3 is rapidly increasing worldwide due in large part to the abundance of medical studies and reports that have been published. With the more than 20,000 articles published as of 2003, it can be a challenge to keep up with the expanding list of benefits from this modern day aspirin. Let me summarize some of the recent studies and uses that I have experienced in my own practice.
Patricia Fredette, MD |
Best Practices: Bullying
In a few weeks school will reopen and many children already are beginning to feel anxious. Many of them were victim of Bullying during the last school year. Bullying is a very common experience of many children, even in middle school. Some surveys indicate at least 10% children are Bullied on a regular basis.
Syeda Sultana, M.D. |
Finding the Right Outpatient Care
Choosing the right outpatient service center isn’t easy for many patients. In fact, patients often rely on their doctors to choose the best center for them. Because of this, doctors should carefully consider a center’s staff, services and technologies before making a recommendation to one of their patients.
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Transfer Factors: Boosting Your Patient’s Immune System & Practice’s Revenue!
Transfer Factor Product Info:
This product represents 4Life®’s highest level of immune system support. 4Life Transfer Factor Plus Tri-Factor Formula combines the intelligence of Transfer Factor E-XF™, the intuition of NanoFactor™ extract, and the added support of our Cordyvant™ blend to provide the ultimate in immune system support for your body. The proprietary Cordyvant blend features known immune-supporting ingredients such as maitake and shiitake mushrooms, cordyceps, inositol hexaphosphate, beta glucans, beta sitosterol, and olive leaf extract.
Heather Mojica
Eric Tano |
A child headed back to school takes an immunization shot to the arm by a Hillsborough County Health Department volunteer as part of the federally-funded Vaccine For Children Program. |
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Free Immunizations for Infants, Back-to-School Kids
Local Physicians, Nurses Volunteer at County Clinics
As Florida students head back to school with new clothes, fresh notebooks and sharpened pencils, many will also clutch sore muscles where they took recent immunization shots if they’re attending a Florida school for the first time.
Volunteer doctors across the state are helping to immunize kids throughout August before the first day of school. In Hillsborough County, the health department may need a few more volunteers at any of its seven sites...
DAVID ROSENFELD |
Managed Care Bill Marks Major Reform
Insurers No Longer Able to “Look-back” More than Two Years
The Florida Medical Association came away with a win this legislative session heralded as one of the most significant managed care reform laws in more than a decade.
The law, known as the Managed Care Bill (SB 1012), most notably prevents insurers from reversing payments up to 30 months after dolling them out. Instead, insurers will have just 12 months to re-open claims for possible reversal in addition to a six-month review period already in existence. Insurers use this so-called “look-back period” to take a closer look at medical necessity.
DAVID ROSENFELD |
Dr. David T. Tayloe Jr. |
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Building a Healthy America from Kids’ Minds, Bodies
As president-elect of the American Academy of Pediatrics, David T. Tayloe Jr., MD, will be taking the reins of the Academy as a new administration takes hold in Washington.
Regardless of the outcome of November’s elections, Tayloe and other AAP leaders are working now to educate government officials on how healthcare reforms can affect America’s children. Among the top goals is bringing parity to the way the government administers funding for kids’ health in relation to that of groups like the elderly and disabled.
LUCY SCHULTZE |
Gary Saulter |
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Equipment Leasing and Evergreen Clauses
If ever there was an aspect of equipment leasing which juxtaposed the legal with the unethical, the “evergreen clause” is it.
An evergreen clause, or evergreen lease as the word implies, signifies a contract that goes on forever. In actuality, it can end, but only after the lessee sends, within a specified time period, a letter stating his intent to return or purchase the underlying equipment.
GARY SAULTER |
Grand Rounds August
ORMC First in Orlando to Use New Heart Stent
Florida Hospital Named One of America’s Best Hospitals
Edward Jones Receives High Marks from SmartMoney Magazine
Florida Hospital Applies to Expand Transplant Program to Include Heart and Lung Transplants
Brooks Rehabilitation Opens Winter Park Clinic
Nemours Unveils Children’s Hospital Master Site Plan And Expert Design Team
New CEO joins Florida Hospital Ormond Memorial
New Building Ground Breaking In Downtown St. Petersburg
MORSE LLC- CyberKnife Centers of Miami and Palm Beach Mark Expansion Into Southwest Florida
Mosaica Partners’ Kolkman to Chair HIMSS Healthcare Information Exchange Steering Committee
Moffitt Cancer Center Ranks on U.S. News & World
Report’s List of America’s Best Hospitals for Cancer
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AARP volunteers gather at a rally at the Hart Senate Office Building on July 15 as part of the group’s Keep Medicare Fair rally. The drive has led to 1 million messages to Congress urging lawmakers to protect and improve Medicare. |
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Medicare Problems Bigger Than Recent Vote
Doctors Elude Cut, Yet Remain in Cross Hairs
Florida doctors are sick and tired of having to fend off proposed payment cuts under Medicare each year, said Jeff Scott, director of legal and government affairs of the Florida Medical Association.
“It’s absolutely ridiculous that we have to go through this charade each year or every six months and have to come back with our palms out saying please don’t kill us,” Scott said. “There absolutely needs to be a change to the system. It has to be replaced with something that makes sense.”
DAVID ROSENFELD |
Physician Spotlight: Dr. Gary Onik
How much does Gary Onik, MD love freezing prostate cancer cells? So much so he’s naming his new boat Icewars.
And Onik doesn’t just have more than fifteen years experience in cryosurgery—he’s the inventor and pioneer of ultrasound guided cryosurgery for both the prostate and the liver.
It all started in the late 1970s in Minneapolis, Minn.
STEPHANIE DOYLE |
Seminole County Medical Society
The Seminole County Medical Society would like to extend a great big thank you to all those who helped get H.R. 6331 passed! Recently, many doctors practicing in Florida were faced with a tough decision: Remain in or opt out of the Medicare program. This difficult decision was brought on by “The Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008” H.R. 6331 which called for a stop to the 10.6% cut this year and a 5% cut next year in Medicare physician payments. In a state where so many patients rely on Medicare, the physicians who care for these patients have gradually seen their insurance, medical supplies, staff costs, and overhead across the board increase year after year.
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Squaring Off on Vaccine Safety
Between the recent decision of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Division of Vaccine Injury Compensation in the Hannah Poling case and the media splash earlier this summer that accompanied actress Jenny McCarthy’s “Green Our Vaccines” march on Washington, D.C., groups that have long espoused the underlying dangers of the U.S. immunization program believe they have reason to feel vindicated.
CINDY SANDERS |
Orange County Medical Society
Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008
Thanks to the overwhelming number of physicians, patients and staff who contacted Florida’s Congressional delegation, organized medicine has been able to stop the scheduled 10.6% cut in Medicare payments that was to take effect July 1, 2008.
On July 15 Congress voted overwhelmingly to override President Bush’s veto of the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (H.R. 6331). Despite the presidential veto, the U.S. House of Representatives reached a required two-thirds majority to override it with a 383-41 vote, and the Senate followed suit by a 70-26 margin
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