This past week, Governor Rick Scott announced that he would not implement two aspects of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. We gathered a panel to discuss this and how the new healthcare law might impact Florida’s medical and business communities.
[Air Date: 7/06/2012]
This past week, Governor Rick Scott announced that he would not implement two aspects of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. We gathered a panel to discuss this and how the new healthcare law might impact Florida’s medical and business communities.
[Air Date: 7/06/2012]
Always striving to improve himself and his community, Mark Kent became CEO for the CAC-Florida Medical Centers last November. He hopes to add value to the products the health care organization delivers by providing education and preventative care while putting patients first.
“By focusing on those unmet needs,” he said, “by focusing on you as a holistic patient, by designing the proper prevention and chronic disease management programs, by helping you not only to stay out of the hospital but ensuring that you’re getting the right care at the right time, that adds the value to the system.”
Shortly after Mr. Kent assumed his current role CAC-Florida Medical Centers opened two centers in Orlando. Mr. Kent said the company is planning other expansions.
With a Medicare-eligible patient base that is about 83% Hispanic, CAC-Florida Medical Centers often partners with the state, Medicaid and Medicare to create a benefit structure for patients with an income of less than $20,000 a year, Mr. Kent said, adding that health care reform is necessary to combat the rising costs associated with receiving care.
A nurse by training, Mr. Kent said that his background has helped him understand and engage with physicians and staff to better serve patients.
“We’re in the health care delivery space, so it’s critically important and fundamentally helpful to have a clinical understanding when you’re engaging staff, speaking with a physician or engaging the patient,” he said. “I love being in our medical centers. That adds credibility when you’re having conversations with a provider that you truly understand.”
Mr. Kent discussed his career and CAC-Florida Medical Centers with Miami Today staff writer Patricia Hoyos at a Hialeah medical center.
Always striving to improve himself and his community, Mark Kent became CEO for the CAC-Florida Medical Centers last November. He hopes to add value to the products the health care organization delivers by providing education and preventative care while putting patients first.
“By focusing on those unmet needs,” he said, “by focusing on you as a holistic patient, by designing the proper prevention and chronic disease management programs, by helping you not only to stay out of the hospital but ensuring that you’re getting the right care at the right time, that adds the value to the system.”
Shortly after Mr. Kent assumed his current role CAC-Florida Medical Centers opened two centers in Orlando. Mr. Kent said the company is planning other expansions.
With a Medicare-eligible patient base that is about 83% Hispanic, CAC-Florida Medical Centers often partners with the state, Medicaid and Medicare to create a benefit structure for patients with an income of less than $20,000 a year, Mr. Kent said, adding that health care reform is necessary to combat the rising costs associated with receiving care.
A nurse by training, Mr. Kent said that his background has helped him understand and engage with physicians and staff to better serve patients.
“We’re in the health care delivery space, so it’s critically important and fundamentally helpful to have a clinical understanding when you’re engaging staff, speaking with a physician or engaging the patient,” he said. “I love being in our medical centers. That adds credibility when you’re having conversations with a provider that you truly understand.”
Mr. Kent discussed his career and CAC-Florida Medical Centers with Miami Today staff writer Patricia Hoyos at a Hialeah medical center.
Back in February, the future of Miami-Dade's public hospital, Jackson Memorial, looked dark. There were talks of layoffs and branch closings, plus rumors the hospital could not afford basic supplies. What does the fiscal health of the hospital look like today?
[Air Date: 7/16/2010]
FRONTLINE takes viewers behind closed doors to witness the hand-to-hand combat between the White House, lobbyists and Congress over healthcare reform in "Obama's Deal," airing Tuesday, April 13 at 9PM on PBS (check local listings).
Healthcare reform was the first big policy deal taken on by the Obama administration. Many say the young president has bet the mid-term elections, possibly his presidency, on the outcome. In a new investigation FRONTLINE goes behind closed doors at the White House, in Congress and the boardrooms of the giant healthcare lobby to examine the political battles and costly compromises that defined Barack Obama's endeavor. From early positive efforts, through the bitter battles with the Tea Party, the elation of apparent success at Christmas, to the crushing failure in the Massachusetts Senatorial election, FRONTLINE follows the story and reveals the first in-depth look at how the Obama administration operates. In "Obama's Deal," FRONTLINE veteran producer Michael Kirk ("Bush's War," "Dreams of Obama," "Inside the Meltdown," "The Warning") provides a sobering exposé of the realities of American politics, the power of special interest groups, and the role of money in policy making.
Watch "Obama's Deal" on air and online beginning Tuesday, April 13 on PBS (check local listings) and at http://www.pbs.org/frontline/obamasdeal
Soon after President Barack Obama signed the legislation on healthcare reform, thirteen attorney generals, led by Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, filed a suit saying the new law was unconstitutional. Two legal experts join us to share their thoughts on the merits of this legal challenge.
[Air Date: 3/26/2010]
The new healthcare legislation makes coverage available to every U.S. citizen. In exchange, everyone would be required to carry health insurance. What changes with this reform and does it make healthcare more accessible and affordable?
[Air Date: 3/26/2010]
Congressman talks about his father's efforts to get healthcare reform passed in the 1940s.
On Thursday, President Barack Obama held a bipartisan summit on healthcare reform at the Blair House in full view of the cameras. How much, if anything, was accomplished and how much can be described as “politics-as-usual” grandstanding?
[Air Date: 02/26/2010]
Since a young boy Benjamín León, Jr., had a knack for business. He started off washing dishes and working in factories, and then sold tires and programmed computers. After climbing up the ranks in other jobs, he joined his father to run Miami’s first pre-paid medical center Clínica Cubana. In 1970, the father-son team founded Clínica Asociación Cubana, which grew into a multi-million dollar operation.
After the entity was sold, Mr. León was already formulating the vision for Leon Medical Centers, selling many of his holdings to fund this new business venture. More than a decade later, the risk has paid off as the company has grown into a leading health care provider for Medicare recipients with more than 33,000 enrolled.
With two new centers recently opening its doors, for a total of seven top-notch medical facilities, the focus now is on continuing to provide cost-efficient, quality care despite the potential cuts HMOs face under the proposed health care reform.
The family-run health care group is also rolling out an electronic medical record system in 2010 that can provide instant access to a patient’s medical history anywhere in the world.
Mr. León shared the company’s origins, operations and plans in an interview with Miami Today reporter Yudislaidy Fernandez at its Kendall headquarters.
Since a young boy Benjamín León, Jr., had a knack for business. He started off washing dishes and working in factories, and then sold tires and programmed computers. After climbing up the ranks in other jobs, he joined his father to run Miami’s first pre-paid medical center Clínica Cubana. In 1970, the father-son team founded Clínica Asociación Cubana, which grew into a multi-million dollar operation.
After the entity was sold, Mr. León was already formulating the vision for Leon Medical Centers, selling many of his holdings to fund this new business venture. More than a decade later, the risk has paid off as the company has grown into a leading health care provider for Medicare recipients with more than 33,000 enrolled.
With two new centers recently opening its doors, for a total of seven top-notch medical facilities, the focus now is on continuing to provide cost-efficient, quality care despite the potential cuts HMOs face under the proposed health care reform.
The family-run health care group is also rolling out an electronic medical record system in 2010 that can provide instant access to a patient’s medical history anywhere in the world.
Mr. León shared the company’s origins, operations and plans in an interview with Miami Today reporter Yudislaidy Fernandez at its Kendall headquarters.
Since a young boy Benjamín León, Jr., had a knack for business. He started off washing dishes and working in factories, and then sold tires and programmed computers. After climbing up the ranks in other jobs, he joined his father to run Miami’s first pre-paid medical center Clínica Cubana. In 1970, the father-son team founded Clínica Asociación Cubana, which grew into a multi-million dollar operation.
After the entity was sold, Mr. León was already formulating the vision for Leon Medical Centers, selling many of his holdings to fund this new business venture. More than a decade later, the risk has paid off as the company has grown into a leading health care provider for Medicare recipients with more than 33,000 enrolled.
With two new centers recently opening its doors, for a total of seven top-notch medical facilities, the focus now is on continuing to provide cost-efficient, quality care despite the potential cuts HMOs face under the proposed health care reform.
The family-run health care group is also rolling out an electronic medical record system in 2010 that can provide instant access to a patient’s medical history anywhere in the world.
Mr. León shared the company’s origins, operations and plans in an interview with Miami Today reporter Yudislaidy Fernandez at its Kendall headquarters.
Foreclosures, unemployment and our overall weakened economy garnered many headlines in 2009. On the political side, the first African-American president, Barack Obama, began his term, healthcare reform made for an angry summer and stimulus funding gave rise to the "tea parties." We gathered a panel to discuss these stories and others to see what the top news items of 2009 were.
[Air Date: 12/18/2009]
Click here for part two: Issues: Pt. 2 of 2 - 2009 Year in Review
Foreclosures, unemployment and our overall weakened economy garnered many headlines in 2009. On the political side, the first African-American president, Barack Obama, began his term, healthcare reform made for an angry summer and stimulus funding gave rise to the "tea parties." We gathered a panel to discuss these stories and others to see what the top news items of 2009 were.
[Air Date: 12/18/2009]
Click here for part one: Issues: Pt. 1 of 2 - 2009 Year in Review
Phillis Oeters has always been a community-minded individual, and so chairing the civic-minded Orange Bowl Committee, which organizes a fanfest at Bayfront Park and two huge youth sporting events, is right up her alley. She says the legacy she’d like to leave “is elevating the community service part of it because we are really a role model across the country in terms of what we do in our community for youth.”
As only the second woman to lead the committee in more than seven decades, Ms. Oeters is also a trailblazer for women in sports – or as she calls it “one of the last glass ceilings” that need to be broken. “It’s exciting to be a woman leading the Orange Bowl because I think that across the nation is where I see more of a difference than right here at home. At home and in the committee I am accepted very much so,” she says. “But across the country they find this a little odd because on some of those committees/football committees they have not even allowed women to become a part of it yet.”
In her day job, Ms. Oeters spends much of her time in advocacy – fighting for Baptist’s and South Florida’s causes in government. “It’s like playing chess,” she says of the challenge of getting legislators to see her points-of view. And the big discussion nationwide, healthcare reform, is at the top of her list. “At Baptist Health, we think that there needs to be healthcare reform,” she says. “There needs to be healthcare reform in terms of changing the system right now. There are many things that could be done to help with the economic drain.”
Ms. Oeters discussed her passion for community service, advocacy and her first Orange Bowl experience with Miami Today staff writer Scott E. Pacheco at the Orange Bowl Committee offices in Miami Lakes.
Phillis Oeters has always been a community-minded individual, and so chairing the civic-minded Orange Bowl Committee, which organizes a fanfest at Bayfront Park and two huge youth sporting events, is right up her alley. She says the legacy she’d like to leave “is elevating the community service part of it because we are really a role model across the country in terms of what we do in our community for youth.”
As only the second woman to lead the committee in more than seven decades, Ms. Oeters is also a trailblazer for women in sports – or as she calls it “one of the last glass ceilings” that need to be broken. “It’s exciting to be a woman leading the Orange Bowl because I think that across the nation is where I see more of a difference than right here at home. At home and in the committee I am accepted very much so,” she says. “But across the country they find this a little odd because on some of those committees/football committees they have not even allowed women to become a part of it yet.”
In her day job, Ms. Oeters spends much of her time in advocacy – fighting for Baptist’s and South Florida’s causes in government. “It’s like playing chess,” she says of the challenge of getting legislators to see her points-of view. And the big discussion nationwide, healthcare reform, is at the top of her list. “At Baptist Health, we think that there needs to be healthcare reform,” she says. “There needs to be healthcare reform in terms of changing the system right now. There are many things that could be done to help with the economic drain.”
Ms. Oeters discussed her passion for community service, advocacy and her first Orange Bowl experience with Miami Today staff writer Scott E. Pacheco at the Orange Bowl Committee offices in Miami Lakes.
Phillis Oeters has always been a community-minded individual, and so chairing the civic-minded Orange Bowl Committee, which organizes a fanfest at Bayfront Park and two huge youth sporting events, is right up her alley. She says the legacy she’d like to leave “is elevating the community service part of it because we are really a role model across the country in terms of what we do in our community for youth.”
As only the second woman to lead the committee in more than seven decades, Ms. Oeters is also a trailblazer for women in sports – or as she calls it “one of the last glass ceilings” that need to be broken. “It’s exciting to be a woman leading the Orange Bowl because I think that across the nation is where I see more of a difference than right here at home. At home and in the committee I am accepted very much so,” she says. “But across the country they find this a little odd because on some of those committees/football committees they have not even allowed women to become a part of it yet.”
In her day job, Ms. Oeters spends much of her time in advocacy – fighting for Baptist’s and South Florida’s causes in government. “It’s like playing chess,” she says of the challenge of getting legislators to see her points-of view. And the big discussion nationwide, healthcare reform, is at the top of her list. “At Baptist Health, we think that there needs to be healthcare reform,” she says. “There needs to be healthcare reform in terms of changing the system right now. There are many things that could be done to help with the economic drain.”
Ms. Oeters discussed her passion for community service, advocacy and her first Orange Bowl experience with Miami Today staff writer Scott E. Pacheco at the Orange Bowl Committee offices in Miami Lakes.
Tavis discusses the acute need for healthcare reform in the wake of the economic recession. He also responds to Twitter comments.
Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen joins us on the program to discuss a variety of topics such as: healthcare reform, the political future of Honduras and the O.A.S., aid to Haiti and the upcoming trial for the alleged September 11th masterminds in New York City. [AIR DATE: 11/13/09]
