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Think Offering Health Insurance in Your Small Business is Impossible? Think Again!
mation regarding the benefits offered, plan designs and rates will be housed. On this benefit administration system, the member can research all benefits offered and enroll. *Educational Resource: The benefit administration system combined with the call center and the Services from Avalon Insurance Services and the Meehan Agency will be a resource for employee benefits surpassed by no other chamber in our area. Members will now have the ability and resource to learn more about employee benefits and how they best meet their unique needs. *Industry Leading Service: members will have all benefit offering information available on the online benefit administration system and will also have a call center designed specifically for their plans. Members will have the options to go online or talk directly with a service representative assigned specifically for their group.
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The Federal Government Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that while 88 percent of employers with more than 500 employees provide company health plans, only 55 percent of small business comprised of less than 100 employees, do the same. Some small business owners and entrepreneurs might feel most health insurance options are simply out of reach, like Margie. You won’t know unless you ask. We have a plan for you. The East Orlando Chamber is here to help with unique offerings to help elevate your businesses visibility and connect you with others helping your business thrive. Our upcoming W.I.S.E. (Women in Successful Endeavors) Luncheon is featuring Women in Politics, May 5th, sponsored by UCF. Dana Loncar with Consensus Communications will moderate our dynamic panel including, Orange County District 3 Commissioner Mayra Uribe, Orange County Mayor’s Chief of Staff, Roseann Harrington and OCPS Board Chair and former Orange County Mayor, Teresa Jacobs.
Our next Healthcare Collaborative, May 13th will discuss Physician Practice & Value Based Care: Is it the key to success moving forward? Guest panelists, Larry Jones, Executive Director of Integrated Independent Physicians Network and Fraser Cobbe, President of Cobbe Consulting & Management will discuss this important topic for healthcare in Central Florida and beyond.
For more information or to register call (407) 277-5951 or visit our website at eocc.org. The East Orlando Chamber of Commerce everywhere East of I-4.
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Florida Dermatologists Elected President, Vice-President of American Academy of Dermatology
Two Florida dermatologists will be serving as president and vice-president of the American Academy of Dermatology beginning March 2023.
Terrence A. Cronin, Jr., MD, FAAD, will be installed as president-elect in March 2022 and hold the office of president for one year beginning in March 2023. He earned his medical degree from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and completed his dermatology residency and served as chief resident at the University of Florida in Miami, where he is currently an assistant voluntary professor. Dr. Cronin is an advisor liaison to the AADA’s Council on Government Affairs and Health Policy and has been involved with the Academy at the leadership level since 2006. He served on the Academy’s Advisory Board Reference Committee and Executive Committee, most recently as chair of the Advisory Board, and on the Academy’s Board of Directors. In addition, Dr. Cronin was named “Practitioner of the Year and Sunscreen Advocate” by the Florida Society of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery and maintains a private practice in Melbourne, FL.
Robert S. Kirsner, MD, PhD, FAAD, will be installed as vice president-elect in March 2022 and hold the office of vice president for one year beginning in March 2023. He is chair and Harvey Blank endowed professor at the Dr. Phillip Frost Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He most recently served on the Academy’s Board of Directors and previously chaired the Academy’s Council on Education.
To honor VCMS member Dr. Harry Moulis, his partners at Borland Groover Port Orange have established The Harry Moulis Scholarship for Medical Excellence. This scholarship will be for current medical students in their fourth year at the Daytona Beach Regional Campus where Dr. Moulis was a beloved faculty member and friend. It is their desire to create an endowed fund that will generate scholarships in perpetuity.
Dr. Moulis, a local Gastroenterologist of Borland Groover, passed away on November 17, 2020 after a short battle with brain cancer.
Should you wish to give, all gifts designated for this fund are tax deductible. To give online, simply click on the FSU Foundation link: http://give.fsu.edu/drmoulis
Volusia County Medical Society Events and Education
WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 12 - 1 PM Michael Rutenberg, MD PhD Assistant Professor, University of Florida Department of Radiation Oncology, UF Health Proton Therapy Institute Virtual no-cost CME via Zoom CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
Halifax Health – Hospice 2nd Annual Rick Zimmer Jr. Memorial Golf Tournament
Hospice will be hosting the 2nd Annual Rick Zimmer Jr. Memorial Golf tournament on Saturday, May 15, at Cypress Head Golf Club in Port Orange. Proceeds from the event will support Halifax Health – Hospice’s Traumatic Loss Program.
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