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• Spotlight on Total Hip Replacement by David Padden, MD, on ORLive.com

  ORLive.com, BroadcastMed’s premier surgical broadcasting website, is proud to present a webcast on a patient-specific total hip replacement brought to you by Holy Cross Hospital. Watch orthopedic surgeon David Padden, MD perform a MAKOplasty® Total Hip Replacement.
  

• Holy Cross Auxiliary Hosts Epicurean Escapade to Benefit Dorothy Mangurian Comprehensive Women's Center at Holy Cross HealthPlex

• NATIONAL STUDY: Holy Cross Hospital Receives the Healthgrades Orthopedic Surgery Excellence Award for the 7th Year in a Row (2007-2013)

  Healthgrades Study Finds Patients Treated at Hospitals Receiving 5 Stars are 61% Less Likely to Experience a Major Complication
  

• NBA Legend Magic Johnson Visits Holy Cross Hospital to Launch HIV/AIDS Medicaid Specialty Plan in Broward County

  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Retired basketball player and HIV survivor Magic Johnson recently visited non-profit Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale to announce the launch of an HIV/AIDS Medicaid Specialty Plan, known as Clear Health Alliance, in Broward County. Magic Johnson is the spokesperson for Clear Health Alliance and a partial owner of the company. Among those in attendance were community members, health providers and religious leaders.
  

• Holy Cross Hospital Teaches Students About Nursing Careers During Annual Day in the Life of a Nurse Program

   FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Non-profit Holy Cross Hospital recently hosted students from Archbishop Edward McCarthy High School in Southwest Ranches, Chaminade-Madonna College Preparatory School in Hollywood, Westminster Academy in Fort Lauderdale, and Zion Lutheran in Deerfield Beach for the Nursing Consortium of South Florida's annual Day in the Life of a Nurse™ program.
  

• Holy Cross Hospital Names Jayne Kirkman, RN, BSN, CASC as Leader of the Year

  Honored for service as Director Surgery & Clinical Services at Physicians Outpatient Surgery Center, LLC
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Jayne Kirkman, R.N., B.S.N., C.A.S.C. has been honored by Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale as its “Leader of the Year” for her role as the director of surgery & clinical services at the Physicians Outpatient Surgery Center, LLC located at Holy Cross HealthPlex.
  

• Holy Cross Hospital's Jim Moran Heart and Vascular Center Performs its First Atrial Septal Defect Closure

  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  (December 20, 2012) – Interventional/Structural cardiologist Alexander Llanos, M.D. performed the first Atrial Septal Defect Closure procedure at the Jim Moran Heart and Vascular Center at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale.
  

• Florida Blue and Holy Cross Create Accountable Care Arrangement

  Companies launch commercial accountable care program to serve Fort Lauderdale and South Florida areas
  
  Jacksonville and Fort Lauderdale, Fla. – Florida Blue, Florida’s Blue Cross and Blue Shield Company, and Holy Cross Physician Partners are pleased to announce that effective January 1, 2013, Holy Cross Physician Partners will participate in the Florida Blue Accountable Care Program.
  

• Holy Cross Medical Group Adds Four Physicians

  Holy Cross Hospital President and CEO Patrick A. Taylor, M.D. has announced that four physicians have joined the Holy Cross Medical Group, a multi-specialty physician employed group of more than 150 physicians providing services throughout Broward and Palm Beach counties.
  
  "I am proud to welcome these four outstanding physicians to the Holy Cross Medical Group," Taylor said. "With expertise in family medicine, neurology, sports medicine and cardiology, they exemplify the comprehensive care and services offered by the Medical Group."
  

• Holy Cross Hospital Taking Part in Research Study to Evaluate Cell Therapy for Severe Cardiovascular Disease

  Researchers using cells from a patient’s own bone marrow to treat critical limb ischemia
  
  Michael Rush M.D. and Charles Tate M.D., at Holy Cross Hospital, have initiated patient enrollment in a national research study using an investigational cell therapy to treat patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI), a severe form of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) that can restrict blood flow to the arms and legs and can often lead to amputation.
  

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