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Continuing its dedication to giving back to the South Florida community, President and CEO Craig Zinn of Craig Zinn Automotive Group (CZAG) has initiated an animal assisted therapy endowment at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital. CZAG will fund the initial needs of the program, while building the endowment of $500,000 to provide income from interest and fund the program in perpetuity. Upon seeing...

Lynx.MD, a leading medical data intelligence platform, recently announced a new partnership with Prometheus Laboratories Inc. (“Prometheus”) and Gastro Health to securely unite real-world clinical data for retrospective analysis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) biologic treatment. The partnership will bring together 10-years of de-identified IBD clinical laboratory data and patient data,...

Jupiter Medical Center has received final approval from the Town of Jupiter for a new five-story, 92-bed patient tower. The building is a $110 million project and will add to the hospital’s existing 248-bed capacity. In addition to the tower, the medical center is also approved to build a five-deck garage with 800 parking spaces, a project estimated to cost approximately $25 million. Both...

Broward Health Medical Center's cancer program recently earned a three-year national accreditation from the Commission on Cancer (CoC), a quality program of the American College of Surgeons. This significant accomplishment demonstrates the hospital's success at providing optimal care for its cancer patients. "This accreditation reflects the tremendous dedication of our multidisciplinary cancer...

Nima Sharifi, MD, has been named scientific director of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s Desai Sethi Urology Institute, a role in which he will collaborate with Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center to drive translational science focused on prostate and other genitourinary cancers. Currently the director of research on genitourinary cancers and endowed chair for prostate...

Miami based VITAS Healthcare has appointed Alexander Fernandez to its leadership team as executive vice president (EVP) and chief financial officer (CFO). As CFO for the nation’s leading provider of end-of-life care, Fernandez oversees the company’s finance, accounting and investor relations functions. As EVP, he helps drive the executive team’s growth, optimizing financial performance and...