Wreaths Across America’s Mobile Education Exhibit is coming to South Florida to Honor Veterans & Supporters

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WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA’S MOBILE EDUCATION EXHIBIT IS COMING TO SOUTH FLORIDA TO HONOR VETERANS AND SUPPORTERS

Pro-sports community in Florida helps to honor local veterans, volunteers and WAA supporters in the community!

Wreaths Across America (WAA) is proud to announce that its Mobile Education Exhibit (MEE), will be makings stops in Florida to honor and welcome home our nations veterans. These stops will be the first on the MEE’s 2022 tour before continuing to South Carolina and Georgia. “The goal of the Wreaths Across America Mobile Education Exhibit is to bring the community together and teach patriotism while remembering the service and sacrifice of our nation’s heroes,” said Karen Worcester, executive director, Wreaths Across America. “However, over the last year, in light of the current health crisis, we feel this exhibit has taken on even more meaning by providing the opportunity for people to safely participate in something that is both educational and inspiring while supporting and giving back to the communities it visits.”

The MEE achieves this goal by bringing the local community, veterans, active-duty military and their families together through interactive exhibits, short films, and shared stories. The exhibit serves as a mobile museum, educating visitors about the service and sacrifice of our nation’s heroes as well as serving as an official ‘welcome home’ station for our nation’s Vietnam Veterans.

The Lighthouse Point Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution and the Florida Panthers want to help raise awareness of Wreaths Across America and to show support to all local veterans by inviting the community for a FREE tour of the WAA Mobile Education Exhibit and Vietnam Vet welcome home center in Sunrise, FL, Saturday, February 12th. The WAA MEE is free, open to the public, and will be located at FLA LIVE Arena, 1 Panther Pkwy from 10 am - 1 pm.

The public tours for the MEE are free and open to the public with social distancing, sanitation and COVID-19 safety procedures in place to protect the health of all visitors in accordance with the CDCs recommendation for large gatherings stemming from concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. About Wreaths Across America

Wreaths Across America is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded to continue and expand the annual wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery begun by Maine businessman Morrill Worcester in 1992. The organization’s mission – Remember, Honor, Teach – is carried out in part each year by coordinating wreath-laying ceremonies in December at Arlington, as well as thousands of veterans’ cemeteries and other locations in all 50 states and beyond.

▸For more information or to sponsor a wreath please visit www.wreathsacrossamerica.org.

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COMMITMENT TO ADVANCED HEART CARE

Broward Health is committed to investing in advanced cardiac services upgrades. With its more than 50-year history of providing heart care, Broward Health is considered a leader in cardiovascular treatments.

As one of the nation’s top 10 largest public hospital systems, Broward Health’s multidisciplinary team of experienced cardiac team provides comprehensive clinical, surgical and rehabilitative care.

Advanced Care Close to Home

Both Broward Health Coral Springs and Broward Health Imperial Point recently expanded cardiovascular offerings with state-of-the-art cardiac catheterization labs to provide patients with advanced and life-saving cardiac procedures close to home. unit seamlessly combines interconnected services, providing patients with the highest quality, timely care.

“Patients also have access to screenings and diagnoses as well as treatment for cardiovascular conditions such as chest pain, heart attacks, heart failure, heart valve problems, cardiogenic shock and more,” said Randy Gross, CEO of Broward Health Imperial Point.

At Broward Health Coral Springs, patients also have access to advanced screenings and diagnoses in the hospital’s expansive cath lab that includes four patient care bays and is equipped with the latest patient monitoring technology.

“The goal of our cath lab is to help improve the overall health of the community where our

“When it comes to a heart attack, time is of the essence,” said Mammen P. Zachariah, M.D., Director of Cardiovascular Services, Broward Health Imperial Point. “Having a cardiac catheterization lab close to home allows our multidisciplinary medical team to quickly determine crucial and life-saving next steps in treatment.”

At Broward Health Imperial Point, the cath lab and interventional radiology suite is on the ground floor -- just steps from the Emergency Department. This provides cardiac patients and their families with a more seamless experience. The new cardiac suite includes two procedures rooms, seven patient care bays, an isolation room, a room devoted to echocardiograms, three diagnostic stress lab stations, and a spacious waiting room equipped with the latest patient monitoring technology. The comprehensive cardiac and interventional radiology physicians perform a variety of diagnostic tests associated with cardiac and vascular diseases, so patients are treated closer to home,” said Jared Smith, CEO of Broward Health Coral Springs.

A Leader in Cardiac Technology

In bringing the latest in cardiac care to Florida, Broward Health Medical Center recently established a robotic electrophysiology program to treat heart rhythm disorders. By partnering with Stereotaxis, a global leader in innovative robotic technologies for cardiac arrhythmias, the Fort Lauderdale hospital expands access to advanced minimally invasive heart treatments. Broward Health Medical Center is the only hospital in South Florida offering robotic-assisted procedures to treat patients suffering from arrhythmias and is the first in Florida, and among the first in the nation, to adopt the latest Genesis Robotic Magnetic Navigation system.

Broward Health Medical Center was also the first hospital in Broward County to offer patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF), an alternative to long-term blood thinners with the next-generation WATCHMAN FLX Left Atrial Appendage Closure (LAAC) implant. The WATCHMAN FLX, which was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, may reduce the risk of stroke in patients with NVAF who need an alternative to oral anticoagulation therapy. Since its inception, more than 300 procedures have been performed in seven years.

In addition to being the first in bringing this technology, Broward Health is part of a large-scale clinical trial looking to expand the patient population eligible for the Watchman FLX.

A clinical study, partly conducted at Broward Health Medical Center, revealed that the WATCHMAN FLX had a success rate of about 99%, said Ahmed Osman, M.D., medical director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Lab at Broward Health Medical Center. “We can discontinue blood thinners and have just as much protection from stroke,” he said.

Additionally, Watchman FLX protection is continuous, unlike blood thinners, which must be stopped before and after surgery. Other benefits include potentially reducing risks of complication and possibly accelerating patient recovery.

“We are hoping that all patients who have AFib will have the chance of coming off blood thinners,” Dr. Osman said.

The re-imagined cardiac cath labs, clinical trials and the use of first-in-its-kind technology are just a few examples of Broward Health’s multilayered approach to advanced cardiac care with a focus on enhancing patients’ health and wellness.

For more information, visit BrowardHealth. org/Cardiac or call 954-759-7500.

▸Broward Health, providing service for more than 80 years, is a nationally recognized system in South Florida that offers world-class healthcare to all. The Broward Health system includes the statutory teaching hospital Broward Health Medical Center, Broward Health

North, Broward Health Imperial Point, Broward Health Coral Springs, Salah Foundation

Children’s Hospital, Broward Health Weston,

Broward Health Community Health Services,

Broward Health Physician Group, Broward

Health Urgent Care, Broward Health International, and Broward Health Foundation. For more information, visit BrowardHealth.org.