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Today's Tip- Healthy Relationships

Healthy relationships produce a lifetime of healing and wholeness. Today, nurture a cherished relationship by spending time with a special friend.


I – Interpersonal Relationship – mutual love and support with others brings meaning to life.



Creation Health Classes Start September 16
Call Today To Register and reserve your place: 352-253-3685

Dont miss your chance to learn the 8 principles of health and longevity. Each weekly session builds on the previous so that you can begin living the abundant life. The multimedia presentations include instruction and interactive discussion designed to prompt action for a healthier lifestyle.

Classes are held in the Conry CREATION Health Center at Florida Hospital Waterman

Community Health #GivingBack

Even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve. —Mark 10:45

Today think of ways we can serve others around us. Lend a helping hand, offer a comforting smile to a friend, co-worker or family member. Volunteer your time! Do what you can to serve your community...

Need Ideas? Become a Florida Hospital Waterman Auxiliary member <---- Click here to see how you can help better the overall health of your community!

Florida Hospital Waterman, Where you get safer surgical care!

In a new study released by Consumer Reports, Florida Hospital Waterman received the second highest surgical safety rating. This national magazine gathered data from over 2,400 hospitals nationwide to categorize hospital’s based on their ability to avoid adverse events during a patient’s hospital stay for surgery. Among the 144 hospitals that were included in the study from the state of Florida, Florida Hospital Waterman was ranked in the top 13%. The ratings were developed to help consumers compare hospitals in their area and make well informed health care decisions.

Earlier this month Florida Hospital Waterman was also recognized by the Florida Surgical Care Initiative, a collaboration between the Florida Hospital Association and the American College of Surgeons, for the type of overreaching efforts that have landed them in this top safety percentile. The Florida Surgical Initiative recognized the Florida Hospital Waterman at their annual conference for successfully implementing new peri-operative surgical protocols. The protocol requires the patients’ blood glucose level to be tested and controlled before elective surgery, as well as during and after the procedure. By going beyond the standard practice and testing the glucose level before surgery the medical staff can catch and treat high blood sugar and avoid future hospitalization due to uncontrolled diabetes. “Blood sugar levels play an important role in the healing process,” said Kathy Forsyth, Manager of PeriAnesthesia Services . “Our new surgical protocols reduce readmission and infection rates leading to shorter hospital stays and improved healing.” Previously, only the ICU was equipped to treat patients needing continuous glucose monitoring and IV insulin. Now, multiple medical and surgical floors are set up with the necessary technology and trained nurses. “We’ve seen a culture change among our staff and physicians,” said Nadine Bobick, Director of Surgical Services. “Everyone is aware of the way blood sugar affects healing and susceptibility to infection.”

To learn more about Florida Hospital Waterman’s top rated surgical services visit our website
or call 352-253-3388.

Positive Perspective

Florida Hospital Waterman cares about you and our community. Check out today's CREATION Health tip and reflect on ways you can incorporate this tip into your life today!

Seeing life from a new perspective can reveal a different point of view. Today, instead of looking at what’s going wrong in your life, focus on what’s going right.

Want to learn more about CREATION Health and how Florida Hospital Waterman can help you to improve your life? Click here!

Join us for a free lecture for cardiac patients on Auguest 6 from 1 pm - 2 pm #hearthealth

Join Us Tomorrow! September 25 for the Florida Hospital Waterman 3rd Annual Pinking Ceremony! #BreastCancer #Awareness #PinkArmy

Join us as we Turn our Hospital #PINK! 3rd Annual Pinking Ceremony

Sept 6th 9-11am & Sept 11th 5-7pm In House Job Fair

In House Job Fair

#Let Freedom Ring

So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!

But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!

Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi.

From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Kindness

A word of thought for today: Kindness - "How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these."
- George Washington Carver

Positive Thinking

Thought for your day: Approach life’s challenges with Positive Thinking- "How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself – so always think positively." ~Normal Vincent Peale

Balance

Thought for today: Balance in your Life - Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." ~Albert Einstein

Celebrate #FlagDay #USARMY Birthday

Today our Country is celebrating Flag Day, and the US Army is Celebrating their 237th Birthday. We thank all our men and women past, present, and future who serve our country. 
"The supreme belief of our society is the dignity and freedom of the individual. To the respect of that dignity, to the defense of that freedom, all effort is pledged." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

#Thought for today #Effort

"I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you’ve done the best you can, you can’t do any better. So when I go to sleep I turn everything over to the Lord and forget it." -Harry S. Truman

Thought for Today : Heart and Kindness to Others

Have heart and kindness to others today-it will be good for you and for the other person.
"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up"
-John Andrew Holmes

Florida Hospital Waterman Awarded an “A” for Patient Safety by Hospital Safety ScoreSM

Florida Hospital Waterman Awarded an “A” for Patient Safety by Hospital Safety Score^SM

Tavares, FL:  Florida Hospital Waterman was honored with an “A” Hospital Safety Score^SM by The Leapfrog Group, an independent national nonprofit run by employers and other large purchasers of health benefits. The Hospital Safety Score^SM was calculated under the guidance of The Leapfrog Group’s Blue Ribbon Expert Panel using publicly available data on patient injuries, medical and medication errors, and infections. U.S. hospitals were assigned an A, B, C, D, or F for their safety.

“It’s The Leapfrog Group’s goal to give patients the information they need and deserve before even entering a hospital,” said Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group. “We congratulate the hospitals that earned an ‘A’ and we look forward to the day when all hospitals in the U.S. will earn the highest scores for putting patient safety first.”

Calculated under the guidance of The Leapfrog Group’s nine-member Blue Ribbon Expert Panel, the Hospital Safety Score uses 26 measures of publicly available hospital safety data to produce a single score representing a hospital’s overall capacity to keep patients safe from infections, injuries, and medical and medication errors. 

“We are very excited about Florida Hospital Waterman’s “A” grade, which is reflective of our ongoing commitment to keeping patients safe by providing the highest quality of care,” says Ken Mattison, President and CEO.  “It is most gratifying to be recognized in this way for fulfilling our mission of extending the healing ministry of Christ.”

To see Florida Hospital Waterman’s scores as they compare nationally and locally, visit www.hospitalsafetyscore.org, the Hospital Safety Score^SM website, which also provides information on how the public can protect themselves and loved ones during a hospital stay. 

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Thought for today: Positive Thinking -

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. "
-Marcus Aurelius (A.D. 121-180)

Thoughtful Word for Today is #Attitude

Attitude- "Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it."-Charles Swindoll