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BayCare Health Systems Breaks Ground On $53M Facility In Bloomingdale
By Tamas Mondovics
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Bloomingdale Grad Hits The Red Carpet And Stars In Netflix Hit Series Fans of the Netflix hit Orange is the New Black (OITNB) will be excited to learn that one of the stars of the show grew up right in our backyard. Actress Beth Dover, who plays Linda Ferguson on the show, spent her Bloomingdale High teenage years in School Class of 1996 Valrico and grad- graduate Beth Dover now stars in the uated from Netflix hit Orange is Bloomingdale the New Black. High School in 1996. Dover moved to the area after her step-father retired from the Air Force in the early 1990s. Born in Chicago, she had previously moved every two years, even spending time living in South Korea. At 13, she attended Burns Middle School, then Bloomingdale High School and went on to graduate from the University of Florida with a theater degree. “I have fond memories of my high school experience,” said Dover who still has family and friends in the area. “It was a great place to be a young actor.” During her time in Florida, Dover, who was voted Best Smile in her high school class was able to act in Nickelodeon shows including Kenan and Kel and Welcome Freshmen in Orlando and was active in the Village Players community theatre in Valrico. After college, she moved to New York City and then Los Angeles, where she currently lives with her husband, actor Joe Lo Truglion, and son. Dover filmed a number of shows including Burning Love on E!, New Girl and Fresh Off the Boat. Dover began her roll in OITNB, which has won Golden Globes, Emmys and SAG awards, in the show’s third season. Her character, who works in administration for the company that owns Litchfield
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Prison and is the girlfriend to Joe Caputo, one of the show’s main characters, has grown over the last two seasons. The fifth season of the show was released in June. “I honestly thought I was going to be in one episode,” said Dover. “I never in a million years thought I would be coming back.” In addition to OITNB, Dover can also be seen currently on Netflix’s Wet Hot American Summer and Comedy Central’s Another Period. All five seasons of OITNB can be seen on Netflix. Dover’s advice to aspiring actors is simple, “Stay in class,” she said. “Surround yourself with actors who inspire you. Create work with those people. Do something every day to take you one step closer to your goal, but create a balance in your life because this business is hard and there are no guarantees of success so you’ll want to be happy in your personal life as well.”
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BayCare executives, healthier.” local chamber members, Cote specifically elected officials and mentioned the facility’s community members no-waiting room congathered last month for cept of a doctor’s office the ceremonial groundpromoting a single regbreaking of the health istration where patients care provider’s newest, check in just once for one-of-its-kind facility. multiple services at the Promoted as a new central registration model of health care, the desks. wellness destination is “We have created designed to fit residents’ this wellness destinaPhoto by Tamas Mondovics lifestyle and needs, and BayCare Health Systems execu- tion with one goal in tives Matt Novak, Kimberly Guy, is a $53 million commumind – to keep resiJim Cote and Bill Ulbricht pause for nity investment named dents in the greater a photo during a groundbreaking BayCare HealthHub at Brandon area healthy ceremony of HealthHub at Bloomingdale. Bloomingdale, 2470 and prevent symptoms Bloomingdale Ave., behind the former before they happen,” Cote said. Albertsons supermarket in Valrico. The new campus will include a halfBayCare officials proudly explained mile walking trail, a serenity garden, free that the 115,000-sq. ft. two-story wellness parking and valet. center sitting on a 21-acre campus is Emphasizing BayCare’s investment scheduled to open early 2019 and is said in the community, St.Joseph’s Hospital to integrate traditional health care servicpresident for Hillsborough and East es such as primary care, pediatrics, reha- Pasco counties Kimberly Guy commentbilitation, imaging and laboratories with fit- ed, not only about the health but also the ness classes, nutrition education and like- economic benefits that the new facility is minded retailers to promote healthy living. promising to bring when she said, “The Patients are promised to experience HealthHub at Bloomingdale will bring 150 a streamlined visit from the moment they new jobs. We are truly investing in the walk in the door as they check in just continued success of this community.” once at a central registration desk for BayCare, a not-for-profit health care multiple health and wellness services. system currently boasts of providing indi“With BayCare HealthHub at viduals and families a wide range of servBloomingdale, we’re creating a new ices at 14 hospitals and hundreds of model for health care,” said Jim Cote, other locations throughout the Tampa Bay senior vice president for Ambulatory and central Florida regions. Services at BayCare Health System, after Inpatient and outpatient services welcoming a large crowd that gathered include acute care, primary care, imaging, for the ceremony. “This facility will be a laboratory, behavioral health, home care, one-stop destination–incorporating techand wellness. nology and convenience to not just treat For information, visit symptoms, but also to help keep families www.BayCare.org.
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