Palmer Hospital president retires

president of Arnold Palmer Medical Center, retired Jan. 26 after 40 years of service. Orlando Health is seeking two hospital presidents, one for Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and another for Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies.

“We have secured a national recruiting firm and are in the process of interviewing candidates,” said a hospital spokeswoman. “We expect to have our new leadership in place this summer.”

In the meantime, Dr. Jamal Hakim, chief operating officer of Orlando Health, will serve as interim president of the two hospitals. medical bills and payments and patient feedback. Proximity alerts let family members know how their loved one is progressing through an appointment, according to the company.

“A solution of this magnitude has the unparalleled potential to ease that burden and we are thrilled to join with Accesso to create an improved experience for our patients,” said Dr. Steven Kalkanis, medical director of Henry Ford Cancer Institute, in a news release.

a Tampa-based multi-specialty group offering primary care, interventional pain management, orthopedics and laser spine surgery, has expanded to Orlando. The 24,000-squarefoot PPOA Orlando Medical Pavillion is expected to open in summer 2018. The company has added 10 new locations and 14 new providers in Florida since January 2017.

is part of the SHERBOC study, an international Phase 2 clinical trial to investigate an experimental drug by Merrimack Pharmaceuticals to treat metastatic breast cancer in post-menopausal women whose cancer cells are resistant to common anti-tumor therapies.

latest calculations for 2018 find Central Florida in need of six child and adolescent psychiatric beds, eight Level III NICU beds and 39 nursing home beds. There’s no statewide need for pediatric open heart surgery programs. The “fixed need pool” is part of the state’s Certificate of Need process and projects future needs for services.

an emerging technology company based in Winter Haven, has added

former head of for Nomura and

a managing director at MKM Partners, to its board of directors. Singular builds hardware and software image archiving solutions for hospitals, imaging centers and other medical groups. equities

of Orlando Foot and Ankle Clinic took office as the president-elect of the American College of Food and Ankle Surgeons.