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UF Health Jacksonville today awarded six recipients for their patient safety efforts across the world with the 2023 Robert Wears Patient Safety Award. The award is named in honor of Robert L. Wears, M.D., Ph.D., M.S., for his pioneering work to improve patient safety. Dr. Wears was an emergency medicine physician in the UF College of Medicine – Jacksonville for nearly three decades and transformed patient safety research.
UF Health Jacksonville and Intuitive Health cut the ribbon on a groundbreaking health care asset today in Northeast Florida, an emergency room/urgent care concept that gives consumers choices while providing outstanding care to patients throughout the community. Dr. Edward Roe III, Greg Miller, executive vice president and chief operating officer…
Dr. Phyllis Hendry’s Pain Assessment and Management Initiative offers a toolkit to distract patients.
Petra Duran-Gehring, MD, and Alexandria Mannix, MD, have been recognized by the American College of Emergency Physicians as outstanding educators who demonstrate superior clinical teaching. Since its founding in 1968, ACEP has strived to educate and train physicians to provide the best emergency care in hospitals across the nation.
The University of Florida Pain Assessment and Management Initiative, or PAMI, has received an Alvin E. Smith Safety of Health Care Services Grant from the Florida Medical Malpractice Joint Underwriting Association. This $999,000 award will continue the PAMI mission of advancing innovation and safety in pain education, patient care…
UF Health Jacksonville and Intuitive Health marked a major milestone today in their initiative to bring a unique style of emergency care to Jacksonville, celebrating the construction progress of three hybrid emergency room and urgent care centers.
UF Health Jacksonville, with Dallas-based Intuitive Health, is bringing a new emergency health care concept to Jacksonville. The centers combine the facilities of an emergency room with those of an urgent care center.
Patients will be triaged and sent to which unit best fits their needs.
The city issued a permit Oct. 18 for UF Health to build a free-standing emergency clinic at Dunn Village in Northwest Jacksonville, the second Duval County stand-alone ER approved for the medical center in three weeks.
Faculty members at the University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville have been awarded UF’s W. Martin Smith Interdisciplinary Patient Quality and Safety Award. Thomas Beardsley, MD, and Colleen Kalynych, EdD, received the award for their proposal titled, “Utilization of an Escape Room for Teaching Patient Safety.” Beardsley and Kalynych will receive nearly $20,000 to conduct this project on the Jacksonville campus at the Center for Simulation Education and Safety Research, or CSESaR.
