HEALTHCARE OVERVIEW
Heather Havericak CEO Broward Health Medical Center/Salah Foundation Children’s Hospital
Florida biosciences snapshot:
93,534
bioscience employment.
6,700
bioscience establishments.
$705 million National Institute of Health funding, FY2019.
$1.27 billion
bioscience venture capital investments, 2016-19.
$1.53 billion academic bioscience R+D expenditures, FY2018.
Source: Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance
What have been some highlights for Broward Health Medical Center? Broward Health Medical Center has stayed completely focused on our strategic planning and growth, despite the pandemic. We expanded our South Florida Transplant Center in which we’re now doing livers and kidneys. We’ve done a lot of work around our minimally invasive surgery and the utilization of robots, which has allowed us to become a Robotics Center of Excellence. We also started our first class of surgical residents as part of our Graduate Medical Education (GME) program. As you start to look at the gaps in physician specialties over the next 10 to 20 years, general surgeons are going to be among those. We want to make sure that our GME programs always match what our residency programs look like. The other thing I’m particularly proud of is that we completed the final phase of our Salah Foundation Children’s Hospital with the completion of our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). How are you improving access to minority communities? We have a robust community health services division that focuses on the health outcomes of some of our disparate populations. One example is in our high risk maternal fetal medicine program that allows for some of our community that may be in a disparate population to have access to all the essential services required. There are navigators who make sure that people aren’t falling through the cracks and are connected with care at the hospital. Our team works very closely with that group. What are some of the challenges associated with the large migration of people to South Florida? We’re already looking at the data, specifically different age categories, to understand what kind of services will be needed to align with community demand. It’s not just looking at services that we immediately need but what those services are going to look like in five, 10, and 15 years based on this influx of population. www.capitalanalyticsassociates.com
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