MIAMI NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE WHAT’S NEW Michael McDermott, M.D., an internationally renowned pioneer in meningioma surgery and gamma knife radio surgery, has joined Baptist Health as Chief Medical Executive of Miami Neuroscience Institute. With the addition of Dr. McDermott, we will be able to collaborate and harness the collective expertise of physician leaders throughout our esteemed centers of excellence, thereby offering the most innovative, comprehensive and individualized treatment plans available to our patients. The team approach, pulling together neurosurgeons, neurologic oncologists, neuro-orthopedics specialists, neurointerventionalists, neurologists and others, will advance the position of Baptist Health as a regional, national and international destination for oncological neurosurgery and spine surgery, endovascular care of vascular and other nervous system conditions, including movement disorders and Parkinson’s Disease.
MIAMI CANCER INSTITUTE WHAT’S NEW The skin cancer specialists at Miami Cancer Institute’s Multidisciplinary Skin Cancer Clinic combine the expertise of many medical disciplines to provide patients with the most comprehensive approach to screening, diagnosing and treating skin cancer. Our multidisciplinary team uses innovative technology to detect skin cancer at its earliest phase and advanced techniques for treating your specific type of skin cancer. Committed to bringing groundbreaking technology to South Florida, Miami Cancer Institute is now able to offer patients access to Vectra 360 3D Whole Body Imaging. The Institute is the only place in South Florida – and one of the few facilities in the United States – to have this system. More-traditional total-body photography involves taking photos of individual lesions over time, which can be a lengthy, anxiety-ridden procedure for patients. In contrast, the Vectra 360 can scan the entire body at once and identify the lesions on the skin.
FUNDRAISING AT GLANCE FUNDRAISING AT GLANCE Falling under the Miami Neuroscience Institute, Baptist Hospital is certified by The Joint Commission, an independent health and safety monitoring organization, as a Comprehensive Stroke Center – the highest level of stroke certification available. Comprehensive Stroke Center status means that Baptist Hospital has the resources, staff and training necessary to treat patients with the most complex
strokes 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Fundraising efforts are focused on raising funds for the Comprehensive Stroke Center to enhance the services offered, because every second counts after a stroke has occurred. The Stroke Center treats more stroke patients than any other facility in South Florida and philanthropy will allow us to continue to grow and help treat patients as efficiently as possible.
The SMART (Stress Management And Resiliency Training) program, developed by the Benson-Henry Institute (BHI) for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, is an eight-week workshop consisting of two-hour weekly group sessions with a structured curriculum, designed to educate participants on a variety of mind-body principles and to develop daily self-care practices aimed at managing stress and building resilience. Miami Cancer Institute is certified to administer the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine SMART mindfulness meditation training program and the certification distinguishes the Institute as the second cancer center in the U.S. to provide a stress management, mind-body medicine training workshop tailored for patients with cancer. Philanthropy is instrumental in expanding this transformative workshop to support our cancer patients and their caregivers, as well as, our physicians and staff with serial workshops held throughout the calendar year.
DID YOU KNOW? During the summer of 2019, neurosurgeon Raul A. Vasquez-Castellanos, M.D., joined Baptist Health as the new Director of Complex Spine Surgery at Miami Neuroscience Institute. Dr. Vasquez specializes in the surgical treatment of complex spinal conditions, including tumors, degenerative spine diseases, spinal deformities, scoliosis, kyphoscoliosis and neurotrauma. He has unique expertise in minimally invasive techniques that result in less pain and complications in a quicker recovery time. Simultaneously, the Center for Spine Care, originally housed at Baptist Hospital of Miami, opened doors at its new location – South Miami Hospital. Our spine care program offers a multidisciplinary approach in a structured patient care center, while ensuring a thorough consideration of both nonsurgical and surgical treatments of pain and neurological symptoms. 32
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DID YOU KNOW? The goal of Miami Cancer Institute’s Patient Navigation Program is to streamline care delivery, eliminate barriers to care and enhance the patient experience. Funded by the generous support of our donors, the Institute’s innovative patient navigation model ensures that a highly-skilled nurse navigator is dedicated to a patient and their caregiver, serving as a liaison and advocate from the time of diagnosis through the entire course of one’s cancer care. As a part of the program, patients are now receiving a New Patient Folder as soon as they begin their journey with Miami Cancer Institute. The New Patient Folder contains information for resources available at the Institute, their own medical records, their treatment plan and much more. Patients and their families use the New Patient Folder to organize care records and become more educated on what the facility offers patients.
OVER 5,000 patients received patient navigation
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