- April 24, 2024
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The hospital also hired three new managers, raised $1,500 for hospice and earned organ-donation accolades.
The Future Business Leaders of America, from Flagler Palm Coast High School, recently donated $700 to the Florida Hospital Flagler Foundation, to be used for mammograms and other breast cancer diagnostic services.
“Breast cancer touches so many lives,” said Elsye Tallaksen, a Future Business Leader soon-to-be sophomore. “The earlier teenagers are aware of the disease, and how it can be prevented by screenings, the better. That has been our goal.”
The money was raised throughout the 2011-2012 school year by the Future Business Leaders, who sold cookies, shirts, pink arm bracelets and held a variety of other fundraiser events.
Organ donations: 100%
TransLife, a federally designated organ-procurement organization for 10 Florida counties, recently presented Florida Hospital Flagler the TransLife Award of Excellence for “the recovery, preservation and distribution of donated organs to critically ill patients.” The award recognizes a 100% organ-donation rate for Florida Hospital Flagler in 2011.
HospiceCare granted $1,500
The third-annual Cruise for Compassion event by Avoya Travel raised about $1,500 for the Stuart F. Meyer Hospice House.
Avoya Travel donated a portion of each cabin reserved by Florida Hospital HospiceCare supporters for a January cruise on Royal Caribbean’s Monarch of the Sea. Funds raised from the cruise to Nassau and Cococay in the Bahamas support the work of Florida Hospital HospiceCare and the Stuart F. Meyer Hospice House.
Three years ago, Avoya Travel owner Joe Abitante, with Anne Marie Walker, organized the first cruise to thank Florida Hospital HospiceCare for the care Walker’s mother received under the hospice’s care.
During the past three years, Avoya Travel has donated more than $5,000 to Florida Hospital HospiceCare through the Cruise for Compassion event.
Hospital signs three new managers
Flagler County’s largest employer has hired three new managers to staff, including Roxanne Edmonds as accounting manager, Dawn Colletti as intensive care unit manager and Dawn Calkins as revenue manager.
Edmonds will oversee accounting for the five hospitals in Florida Hospital’s two-county region. A five-year company employee, she was promoted from her previous position as accounting manager for Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center in Daytona Beach.
As new ICU manager, Colletti will oversee 41 staff members and 18 beds in the unit. She has been with the hospital since August last year, as a clinical/cardiac educator. She is also a former 16-year nurse
As revenue manager, Calkins will oversee five hospitals in two counties, as well. She has been with Florida Hospital DeLand for 30 years and started as a laboratory medical technologist.
