Friday, November 16, 2007
Physician Specializing in Weight Loss and Nutrition Joins Sacred Heart Medical Group
PENSACOLA, Fla. – Dr. Anthony Huynh, an internal medicine physician who specializes in medical weight loss and nutrition, has joined Sacred Heart Medical Group.
Dr. Huynh received his medical degree from the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. He then performed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Caritas St. Elizabeth Medical Center at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Mass.
Dr. Huynh completed his fellowship in nutrition and bariatric medicine at the Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pa.
Dr. Huynh is currently accepting new patients at his office on the campus of Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola. For more information or an appointment, please call (850) 416-2884.
Sacred Heart Medical Group is Northwest Florida's largest network of primary care physicians with locations in Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Bay and Baldwin counties. The Medical Group also includes specialists in Cardiology, Endocrinology, Gynecologic Oncology, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Ear/Nose/Throat Surgery, Weight Management, Pediatric Neurosurgery and Pulmonology. For more information, call 416-1600.
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Monday, November 12, 2007
Sacred Heart Recognized for Hyperbaric Therapy Program
Sacred Heart Hospital’s Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine has been awarded accreditation by the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS).
The UHMS is an international professional organization that establishes standards of excellence and quality for hyperbaric medicine programs. There are over 800 hyperbaric facilities in the United States. The Sacred Heart facility is one of only 75 facilities to receive full accreditation by the UHMS and is the only accredited facility in Northwest Florida.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy provides 100 percent oxygen to patients under pressure, helping to heal damaged tissues, reduce swelling and improve circulation. The therapy increases the amount of dissolved oxygen in the blood, so more oxygen is delivered to injured tissue. In turn, this stimulates small blood vessel and skin growth and helps fight infection.
“The accreditation process for wound care and hyperbaric facilities is a method of identifying those centers that bring together the medical, nursing and technical expertise to provide outstanding care in a safe environment. We’re pleased that our center has successfully passed this rigorous review process and achieved accreditation,” said Debbie Bostic, president of Sacred Heart Hospital.
During hyperbaric therapy at the Wound Care Center, patients sit or lie inside a large, comfortable hyperbaric chamber and receive 100 percent oxygen under atmospheric pressure greater than sea level. When more traditional wound care does not succeed, hyperbaric medicine is effective in treating many problem wounds such as:
• Non-healing wounds such as diabetic ulcers and ulcers caused by delayed effects of radiation
• Radiation damage to bone and tissue
• Failing skin grafts or flaps
“Our team is highly credentialed and provides excellent customer service to our patients,” said Dr. John May, medical director of hyperbaric medicine at Sacred Heart. “This means less pain, less time and less expense for the patient in recovering from their wound.”
The physicians serving the Wound Care Center patients include:
Dr. Stuart Harlin - Vascular Surgery - Wound Center Medical Director
Dr. John May - Family Practice - Hyperbaric Medical Director
Dr. Ludovic Lasquety- General Surgery
Dr. Joseph Kiefer - Podiatry
Dr. Matthew Etheridge - Podiatry
Dr. Rick Bellard - Family Practice/ Hyperbarics
Dr. Wendy Wozniak - Family Practice/ Hyperbarics
Dr. Adam Tarnoski - Family Practice/ Hyperbarics
For more information, please contact the Sacred Heart Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine at 416-2500 or visit www.sacred-heart.org.
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Sacred Heart Offers Flu Shots to Needy, Elderly, and Uninsured
Sacred Heart Health System’s mobile health unit will provide free flu shots in November at sites in Escambia County and Santa Rosa County. The screening program targets persons who are poor, uninsured, or elderly.
We will have limited flu vaccine available at the following sites from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.:
- Nov. 1 at Felix Miga Sr. Center, 904 N. 57th Av, Pensacola
- Nov. 2 at Pensacola Retirement Village, 1800 W. Moreno St., Pensacola
- Nov. 6 at St.Jude Catholic Church, 132 Mintz Lane, Cantonment
- Nov. 7 at Wesley Scott Place, 3300 W. Scott St., Pensacola
- Nov. 8 at Cantonment Councli on Aging, 132 Mintz Lane, Cantonment
- Nov. 13 at Bayview Sr. Center, 20th & Lloyd St., Pensacola
- Nov. 14 at Little Flower Catholic Church, 65th Av & Lillian Hwy., Pensacola
- Nov. 15 at St. John Catholic Church, 303 S. Navy Blvd, Pensacola
- Nov. 20 at Loaves & Fishes, 257 E. Lee St, Pensacola
- Nov. 21 at Milton Housing Authority, 6623-A James St., Milton
- Nov. 27 at Washburn Center, 31 Murphy Lane, Pensacola
- Nov. 28 at St. Mary Catholic Church, 401 Van Pelt, Pensacola
Mission in Motion is a community service provided by Sacred Heart Health System in Pensacola. The mobile unit’s free services also are made possible by support from the law firm of Kerrigan, Estess, Rankin and McLeod, as well as the Gannett Foundation and other community donors. For more information, call (850) 416-7826. ###
Family Physician Joins Sacred Heart in Gulf Shores and Foley
Dr. Neelam Khan, a family medicine physician, has joined Sacred Heart Medical Group and will see patients at offices in Foley and Gulf Shores.
Dr. Kahn is board certified in family medicine and trained at Medical Center East in Birmingham, Ala. and at the Montgomery Family Medicine Residency Program in Montgomery, Ala. She earned her bachelor’s degree at the University of South Alabama in Mobile and her medical degree at the Medical University of the Americas in the West Indies.
For the past two years, she has practiced at Tallahassee Family Care.
Dr. Khan will join Dr. Bill August, Dr. Lee Eslava and Dr. Scott Taylor in serving patients in Gulf Shores and Foley. For more information or an appointment, please call 251-943-8515 or 251-967-4000.
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Healing Movement: Topic of Cancer Support Group Meeting on Nov. 13
Cancer patients, cancer survivors, their families and friends are invited to the next meeting of Sacred Heart Hospital’s Cancer Support Group. The meeting will be held Tuesday, Nov. 13, from 2 to 3 p.m. in the main hospital’s Oncology Unit Library on the second floor. Valet parking is available at the hospital’s main entrance on Ninth Avenue.
During November’s meeting, Sandra Takaro-Miller will discuss and demonstrate “Healing Movement.” A cancer survivor, Takaro-Miller has been teaching dance for 20 years and is an instructor at the Dance Academy of Santa Rosa in Milton. Questions from participants are encouraged.
The support group meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 2 p.m. in the same location. Upcoming topics to be addressed also include tips on handling the side effects of chemotherapy; Advance Directives; disability; and other topics of interest to patients and their families.
The group is designed to offer support through education, information, spirituality, and the comfort of fellowship with other cancer patients. For more information, please contact Rene Moses, 416-7593, or Jo Jensen, 416-7928.
Sacred Heart Ann Baroco Center Expands Mammography Services to Pace
Sacred Heart Women’s Hospital has expanded its mammography services with the opening of the Ann L. Baroco Center for Breast Health at Pace. The new branch of the Ann L. Baroco Center is located in the Sacred Heart Medical Park at Pace, 3754 Highway 90 and is currently accepting patients.
Early detection is a woman's best defense against serious illness. The Pace facility will provide on-site breast cancer screenings, nurse exams and evaluation, education, and digital mammography. The Ann L. Baroco Center is the only mammography clinic in the area to offer nurse exams, which can lead to greater detection of smaller tumors.
The American Cancer Society recommends annual mammograms for women over the age of 40. Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death for American women after lung cancer. Survival rates are good if the cancer is detected and treated before it has a chance to spread - 95 percent of women survive past the five-year mark.
To make an appointment for your yearly mammogram at the Ann L. Baroco Center for Breast Health at Pace, please call (850) 416-8078 and specify the Pace location.
For more information on the Ann L. Baroco Center at Pace, please call Sacred Heart at (850) 416-1600 or visit www.sacred-heart.org.
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Design Completed on New Hospital to Serve Gulf and Franklin Counties
 Sacred Heart Health System is completing the detailed design of the new 25-bed hospital that will open in the spring of 2009 to serve Gulf County and Franklin County.
Sacred Heart will submit final drawings for the future Sacred Heart Hospital on Nov. 15 to the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration. The architect’s drawings will show details for each room in the hospital, including detailed engineering, electrical, and ventilation drawings. AHCA will have 60 days to review the plans and make its comments and recommendations.
The site for the hospital, located along Highway 98 near Gulf Coast Community College, has been cleared except for designated wetland areas to be preserved on the 27-acre site.
Starting next month, crews also will start hauling in fill dirt to raise the site to 14.7 feet above sea level and prepare foundations. Also in November, contractors will begin to extend underground utilities such as water, sewer, and electric power lines to the site.
The construction of the hospital will be overseen by a construction management company, Greenhut Construction Co. of Pensacola, which was recently selected for the manager role. Greenhut Construction has worked with Sacred Heart on construction projects for almost 20 years, and has built major facilities in Northwest Florida, including Sacred Heart Children’s and Women’s Hospital, Sacred Heart Hospital on the Emerald Coast, and the terminal at Pensacola Regional Airport.
As the construction manager, Greenhut will review competitive bids from subcontractors and suppliers, and also oversee work on the project. Qualified local and regional contractors will have the opportunity to submit bids. Qualified companies may send letters of interest to the project architect, DAG Architects in Destin.
The hospital project will provide residents of Gulf and Franklin counties with:
• A community hospital with 25 private rooms, an emergency department, and two operating rooms.
• An urgent care clinic to treat minor injuries and illnesses
• Laboratory services
• Diagnostic imaging services such as CT scans, x-ray, ultrasound and mammography
• A Medical Office Building to provide offices for 10 physicians
• A helipad to be used by Sacred Heart’s AirHeart helicopter, providing rapid transport for trauma patients and other critically ill patients to a Trauma Center.
Sacred Heart Health System based in Pensacola was named recently by National Research Corporation as winner of the 2007 Consumer Choice Award for the Pensacola region. The award recognizes hospitals that are rated by local consumers as their top choice for Best Overall Quality, Best Doctors, Best Nurses and Best Image. Sacred Heart is part of Ascension Health, the nation’s largest system of not-for-profit health care facilities.
For more information about Sacred Heart Health System, call 850-416-7000.
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Sacred Heart Offers Next Generation in Cancer Treatment Technology
Sacred Heart Hospital’s Cancer Center in Pensacola has installed the most precise cancer treatment technology available today, offering new hope to area residents who are battling cancer and many neurological disorders.
“This system represents a tremendous step forward. It’s the next generation in cancer care technology,” said Dr. Gerald Lowrey, a radiation oncologist at Sacred Heart Cancer Center. “For our patients, it means faster treatments, fewer side effects, and a better chance at completely destroying the tumor. It allows patients at our cancer center to have all of the latest radiation therapy tools in one place.”
The new Trilogy Stereotactic System improves the effectiveness of cancer treatments by delivering tightly focused radiation beams to tumors with tremendous accuracy.
“No two cancers are alike and this machine provides us with the versatility we need to customize treatments according to the specifics of each patient’s case,” Lowrey added. “Thanks to the system’s three dimensional images of the patient’s anatomy, our medical team is able to precisely target very small tumors and tumors that are close to vital organs, nerves or the spine. In some cases, we can treat cancers that were previously untreatable with conventional radiation therapy.”
Radiation therapy is used today in more than half of all cancer treatments. “Better diagnostic tools are making it possible for us to see tumors much earlier, when they’re still very small, so stereotactic radiosurgery is likely to play a much larger role in the future of cancer care,” said Dr. Krentel. “We can now use radiotherapy to treat more types of cancer with better specificity and accuracy.
Dr. Krentel said the more precise radiation oncology system will be very helpful in treating many types of cancer. The system can be customized to treat tumors of any size or shape, or treat multiple tumors.
“Using the Trilogy system, we have the potential to greatly improve treatment outcomes by doing a better job of protecting healthy tissue while delivering more precise doses to the cancer,” said Dr. Krentel.
At the core of the Trilogy system is Varian’s high-powered medical linear accelerator, a machine that rotates around the patient to deliver radiotherapy treatments from many angles. The system allows the Sacred Heart team to shape the radiation beam to match the three-dimensional shape of the tumor.
The Cancer Center at Sacred Heart is a full-service cancer center affiliated with M. D. Anderson Physicians Network®. As a result of this affiliation, Sacred Heart cancer patients can gain access to the latest clinical care guidelines developed by teams of specialists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, the nation’s leading cancer center. More information on Trilogy can be found in the Cancer Center pages of this web site, http://www.sacred-heart.org/cancercenter.asp
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Baby Scents Program at Sacred Heart Eases New Baby Transition for Pets
Sacred Heart Women’s Hospital recently launched the Baby Scents program to help parents introduce their pets to a new baby. The program was created by a dedicated group of Sacred Heart nurses and nursing students who noticed many new parents facing the difficult task of introducing their “first babies” to their new baby.
According to the Humane Society of the United States, familiarizing a pet with the new baby’s scent before the baby comes makes it less likely the pet will have a hostile reaction. Using this as a guide, the childbirth staff created this pilot program to help with the transition.
Each member of the Baby Scents program receives a special blanket for their newborn to help introduce their smell to their pet as well as an informational brochure with other tips on easing the transition for pets. After the baby’s first bath, Sacred Heart’s childbirth team places the blanket on the baby to expose the fabric to the newborn’s scent.
Once the baby’s scent is on the fabric, the blanket will given to a spouse or loved one to take home to their pet before mother and baby leave the hospital. When your pet smells the fabric, he will have “met” the child for the first time and will be less likely to become jealous or territorial when the new baby is brought home.
Soon-to-be parents can enroll in this program upon admittance to Sacred Heart Women’s Hospital to deliver their baby.
For more information, please call Sacred Heart at (850) 416-1600 or visit www.sacred-heart.org.
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Sacred Heart Expands Medical Oncology Group
PENSACOLA, FL – The Sacred Heart Cancer Center and its Medical Oncology Group are adding the services of three cancer specialists who have offices in Crestview, Milton, Opp, Ala., and at 8331 N. Davis Highway, Pensacola.
The three-board certified oncologists who joined Sacred Heart Medical Oncology Group as of Oct. 1 are Dr. Jerrald Kuenn, Dr. Mark Boatright and Dr. Ranjith Dissanayake. They will continue to see patients at all of their current office locations.
“We’re excited to gain the services of three outstanding cancer specialists who bring a wealth of expertise and experience to our Medical Oncology Group,” said Buddy Elmore, executive vice president of Sacred Heart Health System. “They will be a vital part of our effort to expand our Cancer Center and take cancer care to a new level in Northwest Florida.”
Dr. Kuenn is a graduate of the Ohio State University College of Medicine and completed his fellowship in hematology at the University of Florida. He has practiced cancer care in Pensacola since 1975.
Dr. Boatright obtained his medical degree and completed his residency in internal medicine at the Medical College of Georgia. He performed his fellowship training in hematology and oncology at the University of Southern California. He has practiced in Pensacola since 1992.
Dr. Dissanayake earned his medical degree in his native Sri Lanka and then performed his residency training in internal medicine at Westlake Community Hospital in Illinois. He completed his fellowship training in hematology and oncology at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. He has practiced in the community for five years.
The three oncologists join Sacred Heart’s Medical Oncology Group that includes Dr. Thomas Sunnenberg, Dr. Silwan “Solly” Chedid, and Dr. Tarek Eldawy, who practice at 5375 N. Ninth Avenue.
For more information, call 474-8382.
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Sacred Heart Adds New Cancer Specialist
Dr. Tarek Eldawy Mohamed, a board certified cancer specialist, has joined Sacred Heart Hospital’s Medical Oncology Group. In June 2006, Dr. Eldawy completed fellowship training in hematology and oncology at Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center of Boston and was named chief fellow of that program. Prior to that, he performed three years of training in internal medicine at Alexandria University in Egypt followed by residency training in internal medicine at Michigan State University. At Michigan State, he was named outstanding senior resident for 2003 and outstanding junior resident. Dr. Eldawy joins the Ninth Avenue office of Sacred Heart’s Medical Oncology Group that includes Dr. Thomas Sunnenberg and Dr. Solly Chedid. The Group also has offices on Davis Highway in Pensacola and in Milton, Crestview and Opp, Ala. For more information, call 416-6933. ###
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