Memorial Hospital Pembroke
Pembroke Pines, FL:
Heart and Vascular Care
We provide heart care to infants, children, adolescents and young adults with a variety of cardiac conditions, including complex congenital heart defects.
Torrance Memorial Healthy Heart: A Guide to Heart Care
A few simple habits can help you lower your risk of heart disease and live a longer, healthier life. Download Torrance Memorial Healthy Heart Guide.
How hospitals are improving heart attack care, survival
In order to continue improving survival and prevention of heart damage, potential heart attack victims need to take action more quickly, heart experts said.
What Do People REALLY Know About Long-Term Care?
A survey finds that many Americans seem to know very little about long-term care costs.
5 Ways to Build a Culture of Caring
A culture of caring isn't just about caring for your employees and having them care for customers.
Caring for grandchildren linked with surprising health benefit
Older adults who look after their grandchildren might also be doing themselves a favor, new research suggests
Big Raises For Many Home Care Workers Won’t Necessarily Help Senior Citizens
A $15 minimum wage will almost double what many home care workers are paid but won’t solve other problems.
Why the Arts Are Key to Dementia Care
The arts are a form of communication that can engage the intuition and imagination of someone with dementia.
What Are We Doing to Support our Valuable Family Caregivers?
About 40 million people in America care for a family member, neighbor or friend who has limitations in everyday activities. We call these people “family caregivers.” Most of them juggle work and family caregiving responsibilities, which can seriously affect their physical and emotional health. Together, this invisible workforce provides 37 billion hours of care, which the AARP Public Policy Institute values at $470 billion. That’s 470…
How In-Home Care Providers Can Prevent Hypothermia in Seniors
Visiting Angels has put together a short guide that in-home care providers can use to spot signs of and prevent hypothermia in seniors.
Your elderly parent is home from the hospital. What happens next?
Many families step up to give care, but the demands on them get little attention.
How to Build a Successful Acute/Post-Acute Care Continuum
Hospitals are forming networks with post-acute care and continuing care partners to ensure quality across the continuum.
Hospitals provide much more than health care
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What medicine can learn from the fire department about team-based care
Rather than assume that the culture we perpetuate is status quo, let us be open-minded enough to see its flaws and empowered enough to fix it.
Why We Need to Pour Creativity Into Elder Care
The arts are a powerful tool to improve the quality of life of older adults
Inspiring Self-Care: Self-Care Tips for Family Caregivers
Home Instead offers self-care tips for family caregivers caring for aging loved ones.
Better Heart Care Saves U.S. Billions a Year, Study Finds
Efforts to keep seniors heart-healthy have saved tens of billions of dollars in U.S. health care costs in recent years, researchers say.
Mothering by Heart: Three Mistakes I Made as a Mother
I bumbled my way through motherhood. Thankfully, my older sister was two babies into the adventure before our first little miracle arrived. She enlightened me on a few unsubstantiated but apparently common knowledge basics such as, “You don’t have to boil that pacifier before putting it back in his mouth.” “I don’t? Then what I […]
Home Care or Nursing Home?
As people age, sooner or later, there comes a time when a new level of care is needed. Even individuals who have been very independent all their lives may require assistance after the onset of a disease like Alzheimer’s. When such a change in care becomes vital, a common decision to be taken is…
Finding a Revenue Cycle Management System for Post-Acute Care
The post-acute care space lacks revenue cycle management systems that align with longer-term care, but finding a solution that centralizes medical billing across several facilities can help.
Is Your Child's Day Care Safe?
How confident are you that your child's day care is safe? Millions of parents across the United States entrust their ... Personal Injury
