Health First Benefit Ball Targets $455,000 to Buy Da Vinci System Add–On Percent Over the Same Period Last Year
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Brevard Business BBN News Vol. 29 No. 13 March 28, 2011 A Weekly Space Coast Business Magazine Health First Benefit Ball targets $455,000 to buy da Vinci system add–on percent over the same period last year. By Ken Datzman With the da Vinci investment, Health First has positioned itself to continue to Last year, Health First Inc. invested provide the best medical technologies on roughly $2 million in the purchase of a the market to its customer base and to sophisticated robotic platform called the future residents of the community, said da Vinci Surgical System. The unit was longtime area resident Kimberly Meehan installed at Holmes Regional Medical Agee. Center in Melbourne and soon after, “When a community is trying to develop trained physicians started performing itself in terms of job creation and recruiting surgeries. new businesses to the region, such as high– HRMC is one of the four hospitals in the tech companies, it’s really important to county Health First owns and operates. It have these kinds of medical technologies in is the flagship hospital of the four facilities. place,” said Agee, of Agee Consulting. The da Vinci purchase was a big “The Health First system prides itself technological step forward for Health First, on staying ahead of the technology curve as well as for the community, and puts the and making the kind of investments that company in the fast–growing field of digital impact a community. An example is the surgery. Some medical experts view this Heart Center on the HRMC campus. The robotic technology as the “next generation” leading–edge facility has served a huge in surgical techniques and procedures. need within the community,” she added. For sure, hospitals around the nation The eight–story, 375,000–square–foot are rapidly embracing this system. More Heart Center features a 108–bed progres- BBN photo — Adrienne B. Roth than 900 hospitals in the U.S. have da sive–care unit, a 22–bed coronary inten- Vinci units, double the number of just three sive–care unit, and a 14–bed cardiovascu- The 29th Health First Foundation Benefit Ball is April 16 at Florida Tech’s Charles and Ruth Clemente years ago. The manufacturer of the system, lar ICU. Center. Tickets to the black–tie event, open to the public, are $225 per person. Sponsorships start at $1,000. From left: Kimberly Brown, co–chair, underwriting; Dr. Andrew Zabinski, MIMA; Kimberly Intuitive Surgical Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., Meehan Agee, co–chair, underwriting; and Polly Molnar, chairwoman. saw its fourth–quarter revenue surge 21 Please see Health First Foundation, page 19 Tigers Woods’ $50 million home in Jupiter has four practice greens will likely move his home training grounds wealthy community about anyone who faded since it was first announced he was By Jim Turner to the southern end of Jupiter Island. lives in their community of under 700. going to settle on the island, due in a large Scripps Howard Service How much of a welcome wagon he gets And if you ask those who will loosely be part to his personal life, which has been remains unknown. able to call him a neighbor, the arrival of widely displayed across tabloid, Internet, JUPITER ISLAND, Fla. — Even with During a break in preparations for the the international golf superstar, yet and celebrity–based TV shows since four state–of–the–art practice greens a chip recent World Golf Championships at Doral, troubled, celebrity, is not a big deal. away from the second–floor studio of his Woods said he’s yet to get a reaction from Yes, some of the Woods’ mystique has Please see Jupiter Island, page 16 now completed $50 million Jupiter Island, his future neighbors about the backyard Fla. singles pad, Tiger Woods has contin- amenities. ued to tinker with his stroke near his home “I haven’t heard from the neighbors, but INC. 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