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Baptist Health Breaks Ground on New Home of Kenneth C. Griffin Neuroscience Institute
Baptist Health recently broke ground on the new home of Baptist Health Kenneth C. Griffin Neuroscience Institute, part of Baptist Health Brain & Spine Care. During the ceremony, Baptist Health also announced an additional $25 million gift from Kenneth C. Griffin, bringing his total philanthropic support for neuroscience at Baptist Health to $75 million. In recognition of this transformational investment, Miami Neuroscience Institute will now be known as Baptist Health Kenneth C. Griffin Neuroscience Institute.
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Orthopedic Surgeons Join Palm Beach Health Network Physician Group
Orthopedic surgeons John Randazzo, M.D., and Gary N. Ackerman, M.D., have joined Palm Beach Health Network Physician Group. They are on staff at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center. Dr. Randazzo has been practicing medicine since 2009. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame,...
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Boca Raton Nursing Home Ordered to Pay $2.55M Over Blood Thinner Death
An arbitrator has found The Encore at Boca Raton Rehabilitation and Nursing Center negligent in the 2023 death of 80-year-old resident Patricia Batashoff, awarding her family $3 million. The case centered on a basic but critical failure, according to the family's attorneys: the facility never gave Batashoff a blood thinner her own hospital records said she needed to keep taking.
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FAU Lands $30M for Boca Raton Health Training Hub Amid Nurse Shortage
FAU Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine — Health Professions Facility User. Florida Atlantic University has landed $30 million in state funding to build a sprawling new Health Professions Clinical Training and Research Facility on its Boca Raton campus, marking the first state dollars secured for the project. The planned 150,000-square-foot building is designed to pull together medical, nursing and social work training under one roof, with FAU estimating completion by early 2030 if funding and project development stay on track.
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Podiatrist Juan E. Sardiña, DPM, Joins Palm Beach Health Network Physician Group
Podiatrist Juan E. Sardiña, DPM, has joined Palm Beach Health Network Physician Group. Dr. Sardiña is on staff at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center. Dr. Sardiña has been practicing medicine since 2011. He earned his Doctor of Podiatric Medicine degree from Barry University School of Podiatric Medicine in Miami Shores, FL. He completed foot and ankle residency training at JFK Medical Center in Atlantis, FL, where he served as chief resident. He completed a traveling fellowship in limb lengthening and deformity reconstruction at the Paley Orthopedic & Spine Institute in West Palm Beach, FL.
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JTCHS Celebrates Ribbon-cutting for new Liberty Square Facility
MIAMI, FL – Jessie Trice Community Health System remains committed to bringing essential health care services closer to the communities it serves. On Wednesday, October 21, the organization celebrated the grand opening of its newest facility in Liberty Square, marking another milestone in its efforts to expand access to quality health care throughout Miami-Dade County.
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Boca Raton Nursing Home Sued Over Resident’s Death From Severe Bedsore
BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — A Boca Raton nursing home let a resident’s bedsore deteriorate until bone was exposed, then failed to properly care for the wound until he died, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed in Palm Beach County Circuit Court. Mandana “Mandy” Kalliche Weber, personal representative of the estate of Robert Bernard Kalliche Weber, filed the suit Oct. 22 against Avante at Boca Raton, Inc., which operates Avante of Boca Raton SNF. Weber lived at the facility from Sept. 28, 2023, until his death on May 29, 2025. The complaint describes him as immobile and fully dependent on staff for repositioning, hygiene, nutrition and wound care. By January 2024, Avante had documented a Stage III pressure ulcer on his sacrum. By November, the suit says, the wound wasn’t healing and bone was visible. He was sent to the hospital Dec. 11, 2024, where the wound was diagnosed as a Stage IV pressure injury with cellulitis. He underwent debridement and a diverting colostomy on Dec. 27. When he returned to Avante in January 2025, the wound measured roughly 11.5 by 9 centimeters and 2.5 centimeters deep. The lawsuit alleges that from February
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New Boca Raton hospital tower set to boost care in southern Palm Beach County
BOCA RATON, Fla. (CBS12) — Medical care is expanding in southern Palm Beach County. By the end of the month, doctors will begin treating patients in a new medical tower at Boca Raton Regional Hospital. Eight stories high and spanning more than 420,000 square feet, the new Gloria Drummond...
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JTCHS Celebrates Ribbon-cutting for new Liberty Square Facility
The New state-of-the-art facility brings primary care and dental services closer to Liberty Square residents. October 26 – Jessie Trice Community Health System remains committed to bringing essential health care services closer to the communities it serves. On Wednesday, October 21, the organization celebrated the grand opening of its newest facility in Liberty Square, marking another milestone in its efforts to expand access to quality health care throughout Miami-Dade County.