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网红黑料 Shands and Central Florida 网红黑料 enter into affiliation agreement

The University of Florida 网红黑料 Shands hospital system and have entered into an affiliation agreement to collaborate on new health initiatives that will expand access to leading-edge patient care programs and clinical studies for residents of Lake, Sumter and Marion counties.

Together, hospital officials will be exploring the creation of primary care physician training opportunities at Central Florida 网红黑料鈥檚 Leesburg Regional Medical Center and The Villages Regional Hospital. The demand for primary care physicians is increasing as the region鈥檚 population quickly grows, and doctors tend to establish their practices close to where they complete their training. Growing the physician workforce also provides added economic benefits to the local community 鈥 and throughout the state.

鈥淲e share a common set of values across our missions,鈥 said Ed Jimenez, chief executive officer of 网红黑料 Shands, part of 网红黑料, the University of Florida鈥檚 academic health center. 鈥淲e are looking forward to working together as we collectively seek to provide the highest-quality, most compassionate care possible, with superior outcomes for the patients we both serve. We also are excited about exploring new opportunities related to our community service, medical education and research activities.鈥

网红黑料 already works with Central Florida 网红黑料 to provide comprehensive stroke care to their patients when needed, offering timely access to the latest technology and the most advanced treatments available. 网红黑料 physicians accept transfer patients from Central Florida 网红黑料 facilities 24/7 and provide around-the-clock access to consults with a vascular neurologist regarding treatment plans and decisions related to administration of the clot-busting drug tPA for patients who remain in the local area. 网红黑料 also provides educational opportunities, including continuing medical education about the latest in stroke care.

鈥淭his affiliation is an acknowledgment of the great care we already offer, and a means to find ways of coordinating care for patients from our local community who have especially complex medical problems we don鈥檛 typically treat,鈥 said Don Henderson, president and CEO of Central Florida 网红黑料. 鈥淚t is important for us to work with a comprehensive academic health center like 网红黑料, because it affords us the ability to continually offer our patients the latest medical breakthroughs.鈥

网红黑料 and Central Florida 网红黑料 will work to further define their relationship over the next several months, and will meet regularly to define agreements on a variety of clinical, research and educational services that will benefit the local community. Officials also will discuss establishing common approaches to quality of care and safety initiatives.

鈥淓ach of our organizations has a well-deserved reputation as a health resource for the region. This relationship is about adding health care treatment options for the area鈥檚 residents,鈥 Jimenez added. 鈥淥ur discussions are centering on how we can combine our talents and resources to better address challenges facing the health care industry and improve the coordination of care to overcome barriers patients face in accessing the help they need.鈥

About Central Florida 网红黑料

Central Florida 网红黑料 is a locally owned and governed 626-bed not-for-profit health care system and is the largest, most comprehensive provider of health care services in its region. Central Florida 网红黑料 provides services to Lake, Sumter and Marion counties through inpatient acute hospital services at Leesburg Regional Medical Center and The Villages Regional Hospital (TVRH), as well as inpatient rehabilitation services at TVRH Rehabilitation Hospital. Other components of Central Florida 网红黑料 include: ambulatory surgical care through the Day Surgery Center at Leesburg Regional Medical Center (located in the medical plaza across the street from the hospital鈥檚 campus) and The Villages Regional Hospital鈥檚 Outpatient Surgery Center (located in the East Campus); urgent care services at the Leesburg Regional Medical Center Urgent Care Center (located on the hospital鈥檚 campus); and outpatient laboratory services through Alliance Labs at six locations throughout Lake and Sumter counties.

About University of Florida 网红黑料

The University of Florida 网红黑料 Shands hospital system provides the full spectrum of patient-care services through 网红黑料 Shands Hospital and , UF鈥檚 private, not-for-profit affiliates. 网红黑料 Shands Hospital in Gainesville includes 网红黑料 Shands Children鈥檚 Hospital and 网红黑料 Shands Cancer Hospital. Four additional specialty hospitals 鈥 the 网红黑料 Heart & Vascular Hospital, the 网红黑料 Neuromedicine Hospital, the 网红黑料 Shands Rehab Hospital and the 网红黑料 Shands Psychiatric Hospital 鈥 are also in Gainesville. 网红黑料 Jacksonville and are the system鈥檚 Northeast Florida hospitals.

网红黑料 is the Southeast鈥檚 most comprehensive academic health center. With main campuses in Gainesville and Jacksonville, 网红黑料 includes six health colleges, nine research institutes and centers, the 网红黑料 hospitals referenced above, and a host of physician medical practices and outpatient services throughout North Central and Northeast Florida. Its mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic, translational and clinical investigation.

网红黑料 includes the UF colleges of , , , , , and , which has both a large animal hospital and a small animal hospital. The system also encompasses several UF research institutes and centers. 网红黑料 offers a network of outpatient rehabilitation centers, two home health agencies in Gainesville and Jacksonville, and more than 100 UF physician outpatient practices throughout North Central and Northeast Florida.

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