BayCare Health System’s Post

This honor reflects all those who make BayCare Health System the best place to work, receive and provide care. Congratulations to president and CEO Stephanie Conners on this prestigious award highlighting our clinical excellence, compassionate care, and contributions to the communities we serve. Clinical excellence is our true north and serving West Central Florida beyond our hospital walls is how we impact our communities for generations to come.

Welcome to our new BayCare Health System family medicine, internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, psychiatry and transitional-year residents! More than 80 physician residents—the largest class in BayCare Graduate Medical Education (GME) history—took part in our recent GME orientation. The health system's leadership team and the residents' program directors, associate directors and program also participated. We are excited for the year ahead! #BayCareProud

West Central Florida’s leading not-for-profit health care system, BayCare Health System, is reorganizing to ensure locally led, high-quality, compassionate care remains accessible for our communities for decades to come. The new corporate legal structure does not impact BayCare’s extraordinary patient care, physicians, or team members. Read more: https://bit.ly/3RPB1An

BayCare Health System is proud to be the first health care system to partner with CareerSource Pasco Hernando to offer a Summer Trades Program for teens interested in pursuing health care careers. The teens earned Florida Ready to Work Credentials and also completed Heartsaver® CPR training. #BayCareProud

Staying on the forefront of medical innovation, two cardiovascular physicians at St. Joseph’s Hospital leveraged new industry technology and their specialized experience to develop a revolutionary treatment option for atrial fibrillation (AFib) called the Tampa 2. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3XHUYwC #BayCareProud

Getting your hip replaced at BayCare is not the same as it was five years ago. Today, one-third of joint replacement patients can go home the day of surgery rather than stay overnight at the hospital, accelerating their recovery. https://bit.ly/3VNs4J4

BayCare Health System’s Morton Plant Hospital recently became the first in the Tampa Bay area to offer a new treatment for in-stent restenosis. Congratulations to Interventional Cardiologist Lang Lin, MD, and her outstanding team for bringing another innovative treatment to our patients. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4b9L9KO

At BayCare Health System we are proud of our team members when they go the extra mile to provide quality care for patients throughout our health system. Jeff, the St. Anthony’s Hospital manager of oncology services and outpatient infusion, recently worked to bring a bladder cancer treatment that was being performed in Winter Haven Hospital to St. Anthony’s. Now, he has developed a process that will be offered in all BayCare hospital infusion centers. https://bit.ly/4csTvhP

Today, we recognize Juneteenth, a key date that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, federal troops enforced the emancipation of all slaves in Texas. We honor this day by acknowledging the profound contributions and enduring spirit of African Americans who were enslaved. #Juneteenth