Sarasota Memorial Health Care System

🐾💙 Last week, SMH-Sarasota received a PAWsitively special visit from Dogs Inc puppies in training! It was a training day like no other, as the pups explored various hospital environments and helped melt away the stress of the day for 160+ members of #TeamSMH, one tail wag at a time! 💬 “The puppies’ visit totally made my day,” said Patient Intake Coordinator Linda Schubert. A heartfelt thank you to Dogs Inc and the puppy raisers for bringing smiles and joy to our healthcare heroes!

👏🏆 Congrats to #smhEXCEL Award winner Ginny Sperry, a Lead Sonographer at SMH-Venice! 🙌 Ginny has been a dedicated member of #TeamSMH since 2016, recognized for her exceptional technical and leadership abilities. She goes above and beyond, maintaining a positive attitude and readily stepping in to assist whenever necessary. Her generous willingness to share her time and expertise truly reflects her unwavering dedication to the team. 👏👏 Thank you, Ginny, for all you do!

🎉👏 Congrats to Dilip J. Mathew, MD, electrophysiologist at SMH, for implanting the 100th AVEIR DR dual-chamber leadless pacemaker at SMH-Venice for people with slow and irregular heart rhythms! Between both SMH campuses, the health system has completed over 200 implants. In 2022, SMH was among a select group of world-class heart institutions to participate in an international clinical trial testing Abbott's AVEIR DR. This groundbreaking system offers both atrial and ventricular pacing, beat-to-beat synchrony, an upgradeable design, long-term retrieval, and pre-fixation mapping. MANY thanks to Dr. Dilip Mathew, Dr. Martin Espinosa Ginic, and Dr. Robert Eckart for bringing this leading-edge treatment option to our community! 🔗SMH.com/heart

Chelsea Arnold, DNP, APRN, FNP-bc, Director of First 1,000 Days Suncoast, did an incredible job highlighting how this vital initiative is empowering families to seek the resources they need for their child’s health and well-being! First 1,000 Days Suncoast, supported by Sarasota Memorial, focuses on providing crucial support to families during pregnancy and throughout the first 1,000 days of a child’s life—when 80% of brain development occurs. Catch the full segment with ABC7 Sarasota - WWSB and the Suncoast View team to learn more about how they’re helping families thrive: https://lnkd.in/eYXzCtwM

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❤️🩹 SMH cardiac surgeons are saving lives by utilizing the Florida Sleeve, a procedure designed to offer faster and safer treatment for potentially deadly aortic root aneurysms. Bradenton's Steve Ware, who lived with an aortic root aneurysm for 20 years, turned to SMH's heart team when he also developed a mitral valve disorder. Cardiothoracic surgeons Jeffrey Sell, MD, and Kristen Walker, MD, performed a joint operation to repair both valves and deployed a Florida Sleeve to treat his aneurysm before it turned deadly. Learn more about Ware's procedure and treatment experience: https://lnkd.in/e8NtcVn6

🎉🎉 #TeamSMH is celebrating SMH-Sarasota's seven-year reign as one of the World's Best Hospitals! 💙 David Verinder, President & CEO of Sarasota Memorial, commends #TeamSMH for providing the world-class care that led to this well-deserved recognition! “This recognition is a reflection of their continued diligence and unwavering dedication to the community we serve," said Verinder. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/en7Tfy3b

💙 This February, Sarasota Memorial honors the legacy of trailblazing African American nurses & leaders who broke through barriers & adversity to care for their families & community. Join Newtown Civic Leader Jetson Grimes as he reflects on his experience at SMH before integration, & hear from Newtown native Renee James Gilmore as she sheds light on pioneering nurses like Inez Timmons, who cared for patients in the segregated ward at SMH. Learn more about the impact segregation had on patients seeking medical care in our community: https://lnkd.in/efhpCe4y

💙 For 30+ years, the Sarasota Memorial Community Specialty Clinic has provided specialized healthcare assistance to financially vulnerable residents in Sarasota County. 👏 Thanks to dedicated volunteer physicians like Robert Eckart, DO, our clinic community will always find an expert hand, a sympathetic ear and the high quality medical care it deserves. Our patients remember that, and, if you see Dr. Eckart, around town, we hope you will too.

👏👏 Congrats to the SMH Heart team! Recently, SMH completed its 100th procedure with the Medtronic Affera Mapping and Ablation System with Sphere-9 Catheter, making SMH the first in the nation to reach this medical milestone. Affera combines heart mapping, pulsed field and radiofrequency ablation all in one procedure. The simultaneous procedures offer significant benefits for atrial fibrillation patients, allowing our electrophysiology physicians to perform three equally vital treatments in a single cardiac catheterization. Thanks to Dr. Anthonio Moretta, Dr. Dilip Mathew, Dr. Martin Espinosa Ginic, Dr. Brian Betensky and Dr. Rajesh Malik for advancing this technology at SMH. 🔗SMH.com/heart