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DID YOU KNOW?
In Volusia and Flagler counties, ONLY at Halifax Medical Center, will you find:
- AIR ONE Emergency Transport
- Betty Jane France Pediatric Center which includes Speediatrics, the racing-themed pediatrics unit, and the area's only Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.
- Comprehensive Stroke Center
- Halifax Heart Center
- Halifax Wound Care
- Interventional Pain Management Center
- Lung Center
- Multiple Sclerosis Center
- Neonatal Intensive Care
- Neuroscience Center
- Pediatric Emergency Department
- Trauma Center (Level II)
DID YOU KNOW?
- One of Florida's busiest Emergency Departments is at Halifax Medical Center (HMC), the only Level II Trauma Center on Florida's Funcoast from Jacksonville to Melbourne, where, in 2003, we cared for over 125,000
patients between the emergency department and our three Urgent Care Centers.
- HMC has the area's only Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, which along with the Speediatrics - the racing themed pediatric unit - make up the Betty Jane France Pediatric Center.
- HMC has been named a 2003 Solucient 100 Top Hospital, is the recipient of the HealthGrades 2004 Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence award and received the Consumer's Choice Award from National
Research Corporation.
- Many of the tens of thousands of cancer patients seen in 2003 at HFCH's Regional Oncology Centers in Daytona Beach, New Smyrna Beach and Ormond Beach participated in national clinical trials close to home due to
our affiliations with national organizations such as the National Cancer Institute, American College of Surgeons, and others.
- Our hospitals are like small cities. In addition to patient care and medical procedure areas, they contain restaurants, laundries, gift shops, horticultural programs, publishers, telecommunications, maintenance
staff, legal offices, chapels and clergy, courier and transport services, architectural and mechanical engineering offices, power plants and their operators, a security agency, warehousing facilities and more.
All are dedicated to quality care and patient and family comfort.
- With over 5,000 Team members, Halifax Community Health System (HCHS) is one of the largest employers in Volusia and Flagler counties.
- There are over 1,000 active volunteers serving patients and their families through the Halifax Medical Center Auxiliary, Hospice of Volusia/Flagler, Florida Health Care Plans and Senior Net.
- That the HMC Auxiliary Members donated $200,000 to the HMC Foundation in 2004 and gave over 90,000 hours of service to our patients, visitors and staff.
- Over the years, HCHS Team members have been strong supporters of health and community related charitable organizations, as volunteer leaders and with dollars. In the last 17 years, participants in the Employee
Community Service Fund alone have contributed more than $1,000,000 to area charities.
- Stereotactic Radiosurgery, the most precise, non-invasive method of reaching tumors and other problem areas deep within the brain, was first introduced to the Central Florida region by Halifax Medical Center.
- In November 2002, we delivered the 100,000th baby to be born at HMC since itd in 1928. Today, more than 2,000 babies are born each year at the HMC Family BirthPlace. Complete with the area's only Neonatal
Intensive Care Unit, more babies have been born at HMC than any other hospital in Volusia County.
- Under the leadership of Healthy Communities, over 4,000 children received water safety training and nearly 14,000 received free bicycle helmets since 1996 through its SAFE KIDS programming. Through Florida
KidCare and the award winning Healthy Kids program, over 45,000 children representing more than 44 percent of all children in Volusia and Flagler counties now have access to quality health coverage.
- Halifax Behavioral Services handles more than 2,500 referrals of young people in need of mental health screening, counseling or treatment each year.
- HMC is a teaching hospital, with more than 50 graduates of its Family Medicine Residency Program now in practice of the Funcoast. Since 1965, HMC has had a sponsored hospital-based program in Radiography, which
is accredited by the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology (JRCERT) and is affiliated with Daytona Beach Community College. HCHS partners with area colleges to provide training programs at
all levels of nursing and for respiratory, occupational and recreational therapists, social workers and emergency medicine technicians.
- In 2004, Hospice of Volusia/Flagler celebrated its 25th anniversary of providing extraordinary care to terminally patients, where ever they reside, and their family members.
- Hospice of Volusia/Flagler offers the most comprehensive hospice program in the region including a16-bed Hospice Care Center in Port Orange and Hospice House in New Smyrna Beach, along with a wide-range of
services including complementary therapies, caregiver support and respite care, grief counseling and more.
- With theng of the region's first Comprehensive Stroke Center, HMC is the only area hospital staffed 24/7 to provide both neurologic and radiologic procedures to restore blood flow to the brain within the
approximate two hour "magic window" from the onset of a stroke during which permanent damage can be reversed or minimized.
- Interventional radiology combines the availability of state-of-the-art technology with highly trained physicians who can accomplish procedures with tiny catheters such as repairing abdomen and brain aneurysms,
killing uterine fibroids, dissolving blood clots, removing kidney stones, injecting chemotherapy drugs directly into tumors and repairing arteries and veins using balloons and stents.
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