Items Tagged ‘Mayo Clinic in Florida’
March 3, 2023
Nurse coordinator looks back on 25 years with transplant center in Florida
By In the Loop 
Tita Bordinger Herron has been with the transplant center in Florida from the start. She shares her thoughts on her role and how her career has grown along with the program over the last 25 years. Tita Bordinger Herron has been with the transplant center at Mayo Clinic in Florida for 25 years. When it began […]
October 18, 2022
Calm in eye of two storms: Couple’s hospital wedding during Ian, after devastating diagnosis
By In the Loop
Brian and Andrea Haney thought they would get married “someday.” Then Brian was diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer. During the storm of Brian’s diagnosis, and while Hurricane Ian descended on Florida, the couple decided someday was now. Mayo Clinic staff rallied to help mark their commitment. As Hurricane Ian raged outside, Andrea and Brian […]
Tags: Angela Majerus, Becky Spee, Dr. Ryan Chadha, LaWanda Banks, Liz Mattson, Mayo Clinic in Florida, Palliative Care, Patient Experience, Tammie Massey
July 12, 2022
Elevating safe patient care through a passion for song
By In the Loop
Amy Allen, who works in the simulation center at Mayo Clinic in Florida, inspires patient care technicians to strive for the safest patient care by taking a page from her musical education background. Every patient care technician at Mayo Clinic in Florida needs to know the “5 P’s of purposeful rounding.” (Pain, potty, position, personal […]
Tags: Amy Allen, Humanities in Medicine, J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver Simulation Center, Liz Mattson, Mayo Clinic in Florida
October 14, 2021
90 minutes of CPR saves a life – and reinspires a department
By In the Loop
When a patient in cardiac arrest came to the Emergency Department in Florida, staff steeled themselves for the worst. But the patient’s survival depended on them to bring their best, in spite of the odds. The call came into the Emergency Department at Mayo Clinic in Florida: Cardiac arrest, arriving in five minutes. It was […]
Tags: Dr. Anna Demian, Dr. Leslie Simon, Emergency Department, Mayo Clinic in Florida
February 11, 2020
Couple Creates Easy Way to Give to the Homeless
By In the Loop
Charlotte Mack has looked for ways to give to her community since arriving in the U.S. as a young child. She and her husband launched a company that makes it easy for anyone to help the homeless.
Tags: Charlotte Mack, Dr. Anwar Mack, Mayo Clinic in Florida, Mayo Clinic Volunteer Services
December 12, 2019
‘Happy Liver-versary!’ Liver Transplant Patients Continue to Celebrate New Lives
By In the Loop
Ginger Brewer and her son, Mike, didn’t set out to help a total stranger navigate the process of having a liver transplant. But a chance meeting led to just that.
Tags: Liver Disease, liver transplant, Mayo Clinic in Florida
December 5, 2019
Resident Uses 3D Printer He Bought, Himself, to Improve Surgery
By In the Loop
Neurosurgery resident William Clifton, M.D., believed so strongly that 3D-printed models would be helpful in training surgeons that he purchased his own 3D printer to get started.
Tags: Dr. William Clifton, J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver Simulation Center, Mayo Clinic in Florida, Mayo Magazine, neurosurgery
October 22, 2019
Florida Women Get By With a Little Help From Their Friendship (and Mayo Clinic)
By In the Loop
Lisa Kosak and Jan Chnupa met by chance on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus, but the two became fast friends and now offer each other support as they face chronic health conditions.
Tags: Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency, Asthma, Breast Cancer, Dr. Daniel Macklin, Dr. Jorge Mallea, Dr. Paul Young, Dr. Sarvam TerKonda, Dr. Sebastian Fernandez-Bussy, fibromyalgia, lung valves, Mayo Clinic in Florida
October 1, 2019
Nurse Anesthetist Volunteers, Urges Others: Don’t Forget the Bahamas
By In the Loop
Michele Woodrum, a CRNA at Mayo Clinic, didn’t hesitate when a friend invited her to Hope Town in the Bahamas to provide health care to islanders after last month’s hurricane.
September 26, 2019
After Knee Replacement, David Knisely Records 10 Million Steps, 5,000 Miles on New Knee
By In the Loop
Although it’s been nearly three years since his knee replacement, David Knisely keeps in touch with his Mayo Clinic surgeon to report on where — and how far — that knee has taken him in retirement.
Tags: Dr. Cedric Ortiguera, knee replacement, Mayo Clinic in Florida, Orthopedic Surgery