Holy Cross Wound Healing and Hyperbarics program has been awarded the prestigious 2025 Center of Distinction award by Healogics®, the nation’s largest provider of advanced wound care services. The program achieved outstanding clinical outcomes for 12 consecutive months, including a patient satisfaction rate higher than 92%.
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Republicans on a U.S. Senate panel voted Thursday to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after he declined to answer any questions at a hearing last week about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
LOUIS AMERICAN — Medicaid reimbursements for routine care at Planned Parenthood and similar clinics are once again permitted, allowing low-income patients to receive services in states that allow the payments. The one-year federal ban, which prevented Medicaid funding for non-abortion services like cancer screenings and birth control, expired because Congress did not renew it.
Use the letters in B.E. F.A.S.T. to spot a stroke.
When Veneita Dempster began experiencing weeks of shortness of breath and a persistent cough, her family knew something wasn’t right. They brought the 102-year-old Tamarac resident to Broward Health Coral Springs, where caregivers discovered she had outlived her pacemaker.
Affordable diet and simple lifestyle changes can replace the need for medication, surgeries and expensive healthcare that you do not have. This is part 2 of an info series on using a plant-based diet to prevent, reverse and avoid many diseases and conditions like heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer, diabetes, etc. This is Preventative Medicine you can practice on your own.
Sickle cell disease is more than a diagnosis. It is a lifelong battle. It does not recognize birthdays, holidays, careers, or family plans. A normal day can become a medical emergency within hours. Yet one of the hardest parts of this journey has not always been the disease itself. It has been watching my children fight to have their pain believed and treated with the urgency, dignity, and compassion they deserve.
The book, “Undo It”, by Dean Ornish, is about taking control of your healthcare through affordable, sustainable means. Your diet and lifestyle. It’s called “Lifestyle Medicine”. Lifestyle medicine results from the Preventive Medicine Research Institute’s decades of research showing that specific lifestyle changes can reverse conditions such as coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and emotional distress. Often fatal conditions.
Federal one-year ban on Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood has expired, restoring coverage for routine care at some clinics, but state limits still apply.
The next generation of physicians and healthcare professionals took the next step in their medical careers during Broward Health’s annual Graduate Medical Education (GME) White Coat Ceremony, and that included Coral Springs native Dr. Krista Gaie Grant.