Don King | Guest columnist
Many radical look challenging health-related choices each day, and wellness attraction organizations should enactment together, on with our assemblage partners, to find innovative ways to amended entree to care.
Meeting radical wherever they are
Providing affordable, accessible, prime attraction is 1 of the ways we service the community, on with the much than $265 cardinal successful assemblage payment and attraction for those surviving successful poorness provided by Ascension Florida and Gulf Coast during our past fiscal year. We privation to conscionable radical wherever they are.
In Northeast Florida, for example, our Mobile Health Outreach Ministry sends doctors-offices-on-wheels to communities wherever attraction is needed most. Providers connected this fleet of retrofitted RVs connection escaped attraction to children and adults who request it.
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The Studer Family Children’s Hospital astatine Ascension Sacred Heart successful Pensacola is the region’s lone infirmary solely dedicated to caring for sick and injured children. It means parents determination don’t person to question acold to person specialized attraction for their children.
The children’s infirmary besides has 4 pediatric exigency locations crossed Northwest Florida, staffed with compassionate attraction teams specially trained to attraction for kids and acceptable with instrumentality designed for a child’s smaller anatomy. In summation to our children’s infirmary ER, determination are ER locations astatine Nine Mile Road successful Pensacola, successful Navarre and astatine Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast successful Miramar Beach.
Expanding entree to care
Health attraction options proceed to grow crossed the region. In fact, we precocious opened a caller infirmary successful St. Johns County and an inpatient rehabilitation portion successful Jacksonville. In Panama City, we precocious opened a women’s diagnostic halfway — 1 of 3 that we’ve opened since June 2021 — offering 3D mammography and caller exertion to assistance surgeons much accurately find tiny bosom tumors earlier, erstwhile they’re astir treatable.
In Pensacola conscionable past year, our big infirmary became the archetypal successful the country to execute heavy encephalon stimulation for patients with Parkinson’s disease. Our children’s infirmary continues to connection objective trials that springiness children with crab much attraction options adjacent to home. In Jacksonville, our cardiovascular teams often connection objective trials not disposable anyplace other successful the city.
Our faith-based ngo is the instauration of each our enactment crossed the communities we serve. We impulse and enactment collaboration betwixt each section healthcare organizations and the broader assemblage to supply everyone with the attraction they need, erstwhile and wherever they request it.
Don King is president and CEO of Ascension Florida and Gulf Coast, which includes Ascension St. Vincent’s.
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