Do you want to move ahead in your Sarasota Memorial career? Get your CNA license in 2022! SMH is offering employees the opportunity to be selected for free CNA classes through Suncoast Technical College. Employees will be chosen to participate …
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2021 was a year of difficult challenges for Sarasota Memorial Health Care System as it continued to battle COVID-19. But the health system also marked a number of major accomplishments over the past year, including the completion of a new …
2021 kicked off with the limited rollout of new COVID-19 vaccines. Thousands of Sarasota Memorial staff and physicians were among the first groups eligible to receive the shot, and thousands of team members were vaccinated at SMH Moderna vaccine clinics …
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Twenty-four members of the patient care team from 5 Waldemere had the incredible opportunity to be among 7,500 vaccinated health care heroes invited to attend Super Bowl LV in Tampa in February 2021. The team, who had been working on …
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Early in 2021, Sarasota Memorial was named one of the world’s best hospitals in a global ranking compiled by Newsweek magazine. SMH was one of 13 Florida hospitals to make the list, which spotlighted 2,000 hospitals across 25 countries. Newsweek …
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sarasota Memorial has been among selected U.S. hospitals participating in multiple clinical research trials focused on preventing and treating the disease. In April 2021, the hospital announced that it had a new experimental …
Sledgehammers in hand, Sarasota Memorial leaders gathered in June to celebrate the first step in building a state-of-the-art Behavioral Health Pavilion on its Sarasota campus. Demolition of the 1960s-era Bayside East, which previously housed SMH behavioral health administrative offices and …
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U.S. News Best Hospitals Recognition In July, Sarasota Memorial heard the good news that it earned top marks in U.S. News’ 2021-2022 “Best Hospitals” list. The new rankings placed SMH among the 50 “Best Hospitals” in America for specialized rehabilitation …
After COVID-19 patient volumes fell to the single digits in June 2021, Sarasota Memorial experienced a rapid and massive influx of patients starting in July and continuing through September as a result of the Delta variant. The organization’s surge plans …
Sarasota Memorial not only received awards for its quality and safety in 2021, it also was recognized for its exceptional information technology, earning a spot on the list of the world’s “Most Wired” hospitals. SMH ranked in the 98th percentile …
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Sarasota Memorial’s Palliative Care RN Resource Team was one of just four programs to earn a gold award in “The Tipping Point Challenge,” a prestigious national competition honoring health care organizations that are taking an “innovative and groundbreaking approach” to …
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As the health system reflects on an unrelenting year of hardship, challenge and growth, it also celebrated several milestones in November that amounted to a billion-dollar investment in the health of the community. In the midst of a global pandemic …
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