HCA West Florida Careers

02/16/2024

https://careerevents.hcahealthcare.com/e670a66c

02/12/2024

02/01/2024

https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/hca-florida-bayonet-point-hospital?bid=5260

01/27/2024

01/26/2024

The Jose Gasparilla resting up before the big Gasparilla invasion on Saturday. 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

📸 Lance Raab Photography

01/26/2024

A special recognition for our surgical services team from the American College of Surgeons. ACS recognized Brandon Hospital Surgical Services as a Surgical Quality Partner. The diamond-shaped mark is a recognition that shows that our hospital is dedicated to surgical quality and committed to maintaining the highest standards of surgical care.

Congratulations to the team on this well-deserved, national recognition.

01/24/2024

HCA Florida Northside Hospital ONE OF AMERICA’S 250 BEST HOSPITALS!
HCA Florida Northside Hospital announced as one of America’s 250 Best Hospitals for 2024, according to new research released by Healthgrades, the leading resource consumers use to find a hospital or doctor. This achievement puts HCA Florida Northside Hospital in the top 5% of hospitals nationwide for overall clinical performance and recipient of the Healthgrades 2024 Surgical Care Excellence award, recipient of the Healthgrades 2024 Critical Care Excellence award and named among the Top 10% of hospitals in the Nation for Surgical Care in 2024. These awards reflect our collective efforts to provide exceptional patient care to our community we are privileged to serve.

01/18/2024

https://www.fox13news.com/news/new-alternative-procedure-to-open-heart-surgery-gives-patients-lease-on-life

The Seattle Procedure stands for Simplified Extraction of Atrial Tumor With Targeted Loop Electricity.

01/16/2024

HCA Florida Bayonet Point Hospital performs 500th Thrombectomy

Those who treat stroke patients all agree: time makes a difference. The quicker a patient suffering from a stroke can get treatment has a direct impact on the eventual outcome and that patient’s future quality of life. Equally important, according to Alison Fowler, director of Diagnostic Imaging and Non-Invasive Cardiology/Neurology Services at HCA Florida Bayonet Point Hospital, is getting the right treatment for stroke.
“We’re fortunate here at Bayonet Point Hospital to be able to perform thrombectomies,” Fowler explained. “The work we do here has a tremendous impact on our patient’s eventual return to a more normal life and that is our ultimate goal as caregivers.”
So, what is a thrombectomy? The National Institute of Heath defines a thrombectomy as “a mechanical interventional procedure by which a blood clot or thrombus is removed under image guidance using endovascular devices. Thrombectomy is most commonly used in acute cerebral ischemic stroke, although it is also a procedure used for clot removal in acute myocardial infarction and pulmonary embolism. Mechanical thrombectomy utilizes various techniques. Most commonly, it uses different catheter-based therapies, including stent-retrieval, direct aspiration or a combination of both.”
In layman’s terms, it is the removal of a blood clot that is restricting blood flow to a portion of the brain, and that’s where Bayonet Point Hospital’s Neuro-Interventional Services team comes in.
“Radiology has been around a very long time,” said Fowler. “As technology has gotten better, radiology has gotten better. In the case of treatment for strokes, thrombectomy procedures started in the early 2000’s and have progressed to where we are today. If we can perform the procedure within a few hours of the stroke process we make a huge difference. Radiology enables the physicians to locate where the clot or clots are and get to the area more quickly and with greater precision than ever before. In short, radiology enhances the effectiveness of stroke interventions.”
Bayonet Point Hospital recently celebrated performing the 500th thrombectomy with a small ceremony and the creation of a patch for the caregivers’ scrubs commemorating the event. The team expects the need to grow as a thrombectomy becomes the standard treatment for strokes.
“Certainly 500 thrombectomies is a milestone and something we’re very proud of but it isn’t where we expect to be in the years to come,” said Fowler. “The more the word gets out about what we can do and what we have done, the more I expect we’ll be asked to perform,” said Erin Rona, supervisor, Special Procedures at Bayonet Point Hospital.
Bayonet Point Hospital is a Comprehensive Stroke Center accredited by DNV since June 2018. Bayonet Point Hospital has achieved the highest DNV stroke certification due to its ability to diagnose, treat and care for emergent stroke patients.

01/11/2024

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01/11/2024

The city of Tampa has a huge lineup of major festivals in 2024, here are some for the first half of the new year.

01/09/2024

Saint Petersburg Fl
Sunshine Skyway Bridge
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Petersburg Fl
Sunshine Skyway Bridge
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