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Hope Connections program receives funding from NextFifty Initiative

Hope Healthcare’s Hope Connections program was recently awarded a $75,000 grant from NextFifty Initiative, a Colorado-based foundation that supports efforts to improve the lives of older adults and their caregivers. This funding will allow Hope to advance its effort to support those 50 and ...

Health Notes 7-22-22

Hope VALOR program for veterans receives gift from the Luminous Fund Hope VALOR, a program of Hope Healthcare, was recently awarded a $5,000 gift from the Luminous Fund to support their efforts honoring veterans. As a five-star partner of the National Hospice and Palliative Care ...

ShorePoint Health ER & Urgent Care Cape Coral receives Intuitive Health 2022 Center of Excellence award

Intuitive Health, a national leader of the dual emergency room and urgent care model, this week announced the winners of its inaugural Center for Excellence awards, recognizing exceptional efforts to administer excellent patient care to communities. Intuitive Health’s National Process Improvement Team handled the selection of awards presented by CEO Thom Herrmann. Intuitive Health partners with established health systems nationwide to build, operate and launch retail health care facilities that provide urgent care and emergency room services under one roof based on a proven ...

Lee Health reduces cost of urgent care telehealth

Due to the recent increase in influenza, COVID-19, and other illnesses in Southwest Florida, Lee Health is reducing the cost of urgent care telehealth visits through Lee TeleHealth from $49 to $20. Lee Health is making this service temporarily discounted for community members so they can utilize urgent care telehealth services from the comfort of their homes without having to visit an urgent care location or emergency department. Lee TeleHealth is an on-demand medical service that connects patients directly with a physician or advanced provider and is available 24/7. All you need to ...

Health Notes 7-15-22

Lee Health announces addition of orthopedic robots to robotics program Since the creation of Lee Health’s robotics program last year, the health care system has more than tripled its number of daVinci robots, has added a specialty neurosurgery robot and now, is announcing the addition of ...

Community Healthcare Career Expo and Job Fair Saturday

Lee Health, in partnership with the Quality Life Center, is holding a Com-munity Healthcare Career Expo and Job Fair Saturday, July 16, where attendees can learn about in-demand health care jobs with paid training opportunities, ex-plore certifications, scholarships and tuition assistance programs. Attendees will have the opportunity for same day interviews with Lee Health. The expo and job fair runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Quality Life Center, 3210 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Fort Myers. Some of the entry level career opportunities available include, but are not ...