Author: Carma Henry

Carma Lynn Henry Westside Gazette Newspaper 545 N.W. 7th Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33311 Office: (954) 525-1489 Fax: (954) 525-1861

The National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC), a quality program administered by the American College of Surgeons (ACS), has once again granted accredited status to the Michael and Dianne Bienes Comprehensive Cancer Center at Holy Cross Health in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  

     Members of the Enterprise Florida Executive Committee this week signed off on the dissolution of the agency’s board as of Sunday, as required by a bill (HB 5) approved by the Legislature this spring.

The state’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has topped 1.4 million policies, as it continues to add thousands of policies a week. Citizens had 1,406,189 policies as of Friday, up from 1,399,554 policies a week earlier and 1,391,777 policies two weeks earlier, according to data posted on its website.

After Florida lawmakers in December passed major changes to try to shore up the property-insurance industry, a Senate committee next week will receive presentations about the insurance market.