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Boca’s top-ranked hospitals and medical facilities are one of its finest amenities

The hospitals of South Palm Beach County are the centerpieces of a cutting-edge health care community. Boca Raton offers a wealth of opportunities to those who seek care (or employment!) in the medical field. From rapid response emergency facilities to revolutionary cancer treatment centers, the hospitals and medical services in and around Boca Raton have become some of the best in the nation.

With several major hospitals in the area, Boca Raton residents have full access to excellent health care, from routine checkups to highly specialized treatments.

Boca Raton Regional Hospital

Boca Raton Regional Hospital (brrh.com) has consistently focused its efforts and resources on one mission: delivering the highest-quality patient care with unrelenting attention to clinical excellence, patient satisfaction and patient safety. Two years ago, Boca Regional announced its formal partnership with Baptist Health South Florida, the region’s largest health care organization. Boca Regional’s 800 primary and specialty care physicians on staff and 2,800 associates join a network of more than 4,000 physicians and 28,000 associates serving every east coast Florida county from Monroe to Palm Beach. The network encompasses 11 hospitals and more than 100 other locations ranging from urgent care and outpatient centers to individual practices.

The partnership rewards the singular approach Boca Regional has taken to medicine and patient care since its inception more than a half-century ago as a small community hospital. That approach placed the hospital in the vanguard of patient care in areas such as cardiovascular care, oncology, women’s health, orthopedics, emergency medicine and the neurosciences. Further, it opened the hospital to a synergistic relationship with FAU’s medical school. It’s no surprise Boca Regional became attractive to Baptist Health South Florida, another not-for-profit organization with similar values. So began a relationship that promises to be impactful for Boca and the region.

Boca Raton Regional Hospital was listed by U.S. News & World Report for the sixth consecutive year as a Top-Ranked Regional Hospital in South Florida. Boca Regional is ranked No. 1 in Palm Beach County, No. 6 in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale metro area and No. 19 in Florida. Additionally in 2020-2021, Boca Raton Regional Hospital was listed by U.S. News & World Report among the nation’s High Performing Hospitals in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), colon cancer surgery, heart failure and hip replacement.

The Eugene M. & Christine E. Lynn Cancer Institute, in the Harvey & Phyllis Sandler Pavilion with satellite locations, provides multimodality care to some 4,000 newly diagnosed patients every year. The award-winning $73 million Sandler Pavilion houses imaging, radiation, chemotherapy and cancer support services as well as clinical research.

The Christine E. Lynn Women’s Health & Wellness Institute and its Center for Breast Care is internationally renowned and performs more than 90,000 procedures a year. The Marcus Neuroscience Institute serves as a state-of-the-art nexus of care for neurological and neurosurgical patients, and has transformed the landscape of clinical capabilities available in the region. The Christine E. Lynn Heart & Vascular Institute was the first open-heart program started in Palm Beach County in more than 23 years when it opened in 2006. Since then, the Institute has performed over 2,500 open-heart procedures, more than 20,000 cardiac catheterizations and nearly 5,000 angioplasties. The Gloria Drummond Physical Rehabilitation Institute provides outpatient care in areas such as speech therapy, assisted daily living, neurology, musculoskeletal, cardiac rehabilitation, physiatrics, wound care, aquatic therapy and diabetes treatment. The Orthopedic Institute specializes in joint repair, spine care and sports medicine. It’s the official sports medicine provider for FAU and Lynn University athletics. Its specialties include anterior hip replacement and joint resurfacing, alternative procedures that speed recovery.

Meanwhile, work continues on the hospital’s $250 million expansion. The hospital will grow by 278,000 square feet, gaining enlarged surgical areas and surgical intensive care units, a new cardiovascular ICU, and two patient towers—all private rooms—that will be named after hospital founder Gloria Drummond.

West Boca Medical Center

West Boca Medical Center (westbocamedctr. com), part of Tenet South Florida, is a 195-bed acute-care hospital with more than 35 years of service to the community and with 500 physicians in a range of specialties and subspecialties.

The hospital features a variety of surgical options and approaches including robotics. It is equipped to provide more surgeries, especially robotic-assisted surgeries, with the completion of a $9.9 million expansion, renovation and modernization of its surgical suite in 2019.

The hospital built a sixth OR, which went in use in 2018, and enlarged or updated five others. In addition, West Boca increased the size of its post-operative care unit, allowing for eight additional beds—bringing the total to 14. The final phase of the project was the renovation of two ORs. Overall, the nearly

Recent Boca Raton Regional Hospital Honors

2020-2021 listed by U.S. News & World Report for the sixth consecutive year as a Top-Ranked Regional Hospital in South Florida. Boca Regional is ranked No. 1 in Palm Beach County, No. 6 in the MiamiFort Lauderdale metro area and No. 19 in Florida.

2020-2021 listed by U.S. News & World Report among nation's High Performing Hospitals in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), colon cancer surgery, heart failure and hip replacement.

2019 Boca Regional had the most primary-affiliated physicians of any hospital in Palm Beach County recognized as Top Doctors by Castle Connolly for the seventh year in a row.

2018 Listed by Becker’s Hospital Review as one of 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare for second consecutive year.

2017 America’s 50 Best Hospitals for Vascular Surgery Award™, Healthgrades.

2016-2017 Consumer Choice Award recipient by the National Research Corporation (NRC).

2016 Cranial Neurosurgery Excellence Award™, Healthgrades.

Boca Raton Regional Hospital: Keeping the Promise

“Keeping the Promise” is a campaign that is supporting the most ambitious period of growth and expansion for Boca Raton Regional Hospital to date. The campus redevelopment plans include, at their centerpiece, the Gloria Drummond Patient Tower, where patients will be welcomed in the inviting new Louis B. and Anne W. Green Lobby with plans for retail, dining, meeting space, a sanctuary, outdoor courtyards and other conveniences for visitors. An expansion of the Marcus Neuroscience Institute is well underway with emphasis on neurovascular/stroke, central nervous system tumor, spine, and epilepsy/seizure disorders. The new tower features all-new surgical suites and all private patient rooms exceeding the latest safety standards for patient care. In the current hospital building, all existing rooms will be converted to private rooms in a comprehensive renovation of all patient units. The recently opened 972-car Schmidt Family Parking Facility will be connected to the main hospital once the new tower construction is complete. Also included in the plans is the new Toby and Leon Cooperman Pavilion, to be across the street from the medical campus with an outpatient surgery center, physician offices and additional parking. These investments are the initial steps toward an even broader vision for the campus with greater access points and even more specialties.

two-year project adds 12,000 square feet to the hospital.

The larger ORs improve the environment for surgical teams. Equally important, they allow for the use of Mako® Robotic-Arm Assisted Technology in joint replacements, and the da Vinci® Surgical System in a host of minimally invasive procedures.

The Outpatient Surgery Center specializes in minimally invasive surgery that results in shorter recuperation periods. West Boca also has surgeons who perform Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery, one of the latest advancements in minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery.

Among other distinctions, West Boca is known for superior maternity care services. Continuing a tradition of excellence, in 2018 West Boca received five-star recognition from Healthgrades for both vaginal and C-section deliveries, signifying its place in the top 5 percent nationwide. This marks the seventh consecutive year West Boca has been so honored. Physicians in the Birth Care Pavilion also provide extensive care for premature births in the only Level III neonatal intensive care unit in Boca Raton or Northwest Broward County.

Breast care is also an area of high performance at West Boca. In 2013 the medical center introduced comprehensive breast care services at the all-new Breast Center at West Boca Diagnostic Imaging. Patients can come to one location for all aspects of breast care to receive high-caliber treatment. Further, the onsite patient navigator and specially trained staff treat

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West Boca Medical Center has been a recipient of the Healthgrades Labor and Delivery Excellence Award for seven years in a row (2015-2021). Healthgrades is a leading online resource for comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals. This five-star rating indicates that the hospital’s clinical outcomes are statistically significantly better than expected when treating the condition or performing the procedure being evaluated.

Other recent West Boca Medical Center Honors

Its commitment to quality has been recognized over the years by various medical organizations.

National Certified Silver Safe Sleep Leader by Cribs for Kids

Healthgrades Five-Star Recipient for C-Section and Vaginal Deliveries for seven years in a row

American Heart Association and American Stroke Association Get with the Guidelines

Designated Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology

Designated Lung Cancer Screening Center by the American College of Radiology

State-Designated Primary Stroke Center

Named Among the Top 10 percent in the nation for patient safety 2020 for four years in a Row (2018-2021)

Patient Safety Excellence Award

South Florida Family Life—Broward Favorite Pediatric Emergency Department 2020

and coordinate all aspects of care with compassion and sensitivity in an upscale setting.

Additionally, West Boca was honored by the American Heart Association, earning the organization’s Get with the Guidelines Gold Plus Quality Achievement Awards for stroke and heart failure. It is highly regarded as well for its orthopedic care.

West Boca also offers a pediatric department and multidisciplinary pediatric intensive care unit with the only dedicated pediatric emergency room in Boca Raton. A dedicated pediatric sleep center has recently opened, as well as the pediatric rehabilitation center on Glades Road. And the hospital has a cystic fibrosis program for children and adults.

Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital

Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital (jdch.com) continues to make a difference in the lives of families in staggering numbers. From January to December 2020, Joe DiMaggio had 7,151 admissions, and performed 6,301 total surgeries. Established in 1992 and uniquely inspired by and designed for kids and families, Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital combines advanced technology and the expertise of the largest, most diverse group of board-certified pediatric specialists in the region. After its expansion in 2011, Joe DiMaggio became South Florida’s newest freestanding children’s hospital, with 204 beds and 650 physicians on the medical staff.

The hospital is staffed 24 hours a day by worldclass pediatricians, pediatric specialists, specialtytrained nurses and ancillary support staff—all of whom embrace a patient- and family-centered approach to care that works with families in the effort to best meet the needs of the child. Conveniently on the campus, Conine Clubhouse provides a special home away from home for families of hospitalized children. Accommodations are based on availability.

This four-story, 180,000-square-foot, environmentally friendly facility in Hollywood features six pediatric operating rooms, dedicated medical/ surgical units, family resource centers, ambulatory services, imaging services that feature a CT scanner disguised as a pirate ship, and an entire floor dedicated to inpatient and outpatient pediatric oncology treatment.

Joe DiMaggio has pediatric specialists at the following Boca Raton locations: •900 Glades Road, Suite 501 •9291 Glades Road, Suite 202

Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital Honors

Best Children’s Hospitals, Orthopedics, U.S. News & World Report, 20202021; 2019-2020; 2018-2019. 2017 World’s First Children’s Hospital named Planetree Designated® PersonCentered Organization

Favorite Pediatric Hospital, Broward Family Life’s BFF (Broward’s Family Favorites), 2013

2013 Favorite Pediatric Emergency Room, Broward Family Life’s BFF (Broward’s Family Favorites) Best Emergency Room for Kids in Broward County, South Florida Parenting, 2013, 2012, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2001.

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Opened in February 2019, the Joe DiMaggio Children’s Health Specialty Center at Wellington is Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital’s newest outpatient location. Staffed with highly trained pediatric specialists and support personnel, this facility is designed to provide uncompromising outpatient care in a childfriendly setting.

 FAU Medicine and Nursing programs (among others) are ranked in the latest U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools for 2022.

 The Florida Atlantic University (FAU) Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine and The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have established a dual M.D./Ph.D. degree program to provide rigorous training for talented students pursuing a clinician-scientist career path. The program combines the unique preclinical and clinical training programs at FAU’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine with laboratory research training and interdisciplinary science courses offered on the Florida campus of TSRI, a biomedical research institute with a doctoral program in Chemical and Biological Sciences that is consistently ranked among the top 10 in the nation. TSRI’s program is customizable depending on the student’s research interests and biomedical research goals. The medical degree is awarded by the FAU Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine and the doctorate by TSRI.

 FAU launched the first pipeline program, M.D. Direct, that places high school students from FAU High directly in line for med school at FAU.

For more than 15 years, members of the Bethesda Prime Time Club have been preparing holiday cookie bags for seniors who live alone or who may be hospitalized or confined to their homes over the holidays. The Bethesda Prime Time Club is an organization, free to join, for persons 50 and older.

Bethesda Health: Bethesda Hospital East, Bethesda Hospital West, Boynton Beach

Like Boca Raton Regional Hospital, the two Bethesda Health hospitals—401-bed Bethesda Hospital East and its younger sibling, 80-bed Bethesda Hospital West—are members of the Baptist Health South Florida network. And like Boca Regional, Bethesda Health enjoys an established profile as a high-performing not-for-profit medical care system distinguished for compassionate care that well predates the affiliation.

The 680 physicians on the Bethesda Health medical staff cover more than 40 areas of specialty. The nursing staffs participate in the international DAISY program that recognizes superior compassionate care. Baptist Health South Florida welcomed Bethesda Health in 2017.

Bethesda East has been ingrained in the Boynton Beach community since opening its doors with 70 beds in 1959. Today it’s home to an impressive array of services such as Bethesda Heart Hospital, the Bethesda Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Bethesda Center for Women and Children, which includes pediatric and Level III neonatal intensive care units.

U.S. News and World Report recognized Bethesda Hospital in 2020-2021 as a high-performing hospital in heart failure, hip replacement and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The hospital also holds numerous accreditations and certifications for medical excellence in such areas as stroke care, diagnostic imaging, hip and knee replacement and rehabilitation.

U.S. News and World Report cited Bethesda East as one of America’s Best Hospitals for 2017-2018 in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale Region and listed it as a high-performing hospital in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and heart failure for 2018-2019.

The hospital also has been highly honored over the years by Healthgrades. Bethesda East was named one of America’s 100 Best Hospitals™ in cardiac care in 2017 and in orthopedics in 2017 and 2018. Additionally, it has earned fivestar status from Healthgrades in spinal fusion (2018), back surgery (2017, 2018), total hip replacement (2017, 2018), total knee replacement (2017, 2018), hip fracture treatment (every year from 2009 through 2018) and spinal fusion (2018). In 2017, it also received an America’s Patient Safety Award from Healthgrades.

Bethesda East also is a teaching hospital with a residency program for FAU medical students. At

present Bethesda has residents in emergency medicine, internal medicine, pediatric medicine and surgery, and general surgery. It also offers a residency program in podiatric medicine and surgery.

Bethesda Hospital West, which opened in 2013, is known as “The Jewel of the West.” It’s a state-of-the-art medical, surgical and ICU community hospital with a 24-hour emergency department as well as general medical, surgical and intensive care services, plus diagnostic imaging and rehabilitation.

Delray Medical Center, Delray Beach

Delray Medical Center, like West Boca Medical Center, is part of Tenet Health South Florida, a perennial award-winning acute-care facility in Delray Beach. The complex, with 536 beds, 600 physicians and more than 1,600 associates and volunteers, also is a Level I Trauma Center with specialized services including cardiac care, orthopedics, rehabilitation and neurosciences—and includes a 24-hour emergency department and Pinecrest Rehabilitation and Outpatient Hospital. The hospital’s 48-bed emergency department treats more than 50,000 visitors every year.

For the last 14 years, Healthgrades has cited Delray Beach Medical Center with an “America’s 50 Best Hospitals” Award™. It was a Recipient of the Healthgrades® Patient Safety Excellence Award (2018-2020) and on Healthgrades’ list of America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Stroke Care™ every year between 2012 and 2018.

Further, the hospital has received similar longstanding national recognition in numerous categories within the specialties of cardiac care, orthopedics, neuroscience and stroke care, pulmonary care, gastrointestinal care, critical care and bariatric surgery. Of particular note, Delray Medical

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Pinecrest Rehabilitation and Outpatient Hospital on the Delray Medical Center campus offers a variety of therapy services in a caring environment that encourages and supports family participation in recoveries. It also is a teaching hospital affiliated with Florida Atlantic University.

Cleveland Clinic Florida

Cleveland Clinic Florida in Weston was named the No. 1 hospital in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area for the third year in 2020-21 rankings by U.S. News & World Report.

The Cleveland Clinic Florida—Weston hospital was established in 2001 and has ambulatory clinic locations in Parkland, Coral Springs, Wellington, West Palm Beach and Palm Beach Gardens. Cleveland Clinic Florida is licensed for 206 inpatient beds and is home to more than 900 RNs and APRNs. It is a not-for-profit academic acute-care medical center that provides multidisciplinary acute hospital and ambulatory care with a focus on collaboration, research and education.

Hospital-wide awards/recognitions include:

“A” rating for Patient Safety by the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Group in the spring of 2020.

Emergency Nursing Association’s Lantern Award® in 2017 and again in 2020. (This award recognizes emergency departments that demonstrate exceptional and innovative performance in nursing leadership, practice, education, advocacy and quality.)

Stroke Gold Plus® Achievement Award with Target Stroke Honor Roll Elite Plus by the American Heart Association.

Joint Commission’s Top Performer for Advanced Certification in ventricular assist device (VAD).

Level 4 Epilepsy Center by the National Association of Epilepsy Centers.

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