- The narrow-network plan will be available to employees in Lake, Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties this summer.
- Community Health Centers opened a new center in Clermont on the campus of Orlando Health South Lake Hospital.
Orlando Health and Aetna have established a new accountable-care organization and created a new commercial health care product called Aetna Whole Health Orlando.
The narrow-network plan will be available to employees in Lake, Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties this summer. Members will have access to Orlando Health’s doctors, hospitals, urgent care centers and walk-in clinics.
Companies save on health-care costs up to 15 percent more than Aetna’s broad network plans, according to the company.
Florida Hospital Waterman in Lake County now offers extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, a life-support therapy for critically ill patients, which allows their lungs or heart to heal after severe injury.
St. Cloud Regional Medical Center’s Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Center received the Robert A. Warriner III Center of Excellence award, given to wound-care centers in the Healogics network that have met the highest level of quality standards.
Community Health Centers opened a new center in Clermont on the campus of Orlando Health South Lake Hospital. The federally qualified health center operates 12 other clinics in Central Florida.
Technogym, an international fitness equipment company, launched the fifth annual global “Let’s Move for a Better World” campaign, which enables communities to donate Technogym equipment to other local facilities by logging their movement through March 31. Several YMCA locations in Orlando are participating in the campaign.
SegAna, a UCF Business Incubation Program client, received a $225,000 Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Science Foundation. The company is developing a simulated lung to help radiation oncologists with treatment plans and delivery.
The Florida Department of Health awarded $2 million to five institutions for childhood cancer research, including the University of Central Florida, which received $200,000.
The Florida Department of Health issued 39 emergency suspension orders and emergency restriction orders in February for serious violations. The list included:
• Charity Bible, a registered nurse in Kissimmee and Eagle Lake,
• Gerardo James De Jesus, a mental health counselor intern in Orlando,
• Ellen Susan Sherma Jewell, a registered nurse in Casselberry,
• Dr. Ishrat Sohail of Orlando,
• Shelbi Karyn Suleiman, a registered nurse in Orlando.
Individuals are entitled to a hearing before final action.
On the move
Orange County Judge Gisela Laurent was elected to the Community Health Centers’ board of directors.
Michele Napier, vice president of revenue management and chief revenue officer at Orlando Health, was named by industry publication Becker’s Hospital Review among a list of the nation’s top 15 female revenue cycle management leaders to know.
Nemours Children’s Hospital announced new appointments:
• Dr. Darlene Calhoun is the new chief of neonatology,
• Dr. Craig Johnson has an expanded role as radiology chair,
• Dr. Fabiola Weber is the division chief of interventional radiology.
Date: March 27, 2018