Health

DOH-Broward Water Safety Advocate’s Personal Loss the Need for Precautions

     McGovern is the Florida Department of Health in Broward County’s Drowning Prevention Program Manager and her mission is to save as many lives as possible through education. Her passion about water safety stems from the personal pain she experienced on August 3rd, 2009 when she found her 19-month-old daughter Edna Mae floating face-up in the pool the child had been playing in just hours earlier. “Em” died eight days later on August 11th. […]