The Turkey Day Stretch
Did you participate in the Gobble-Wobble 5k, either walking or running? Maybe you did a few hamstring stretches while getting ready to put in those five miles — or maybe…
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Holiday Tummy Blues
The Holiday season is right around the corner, with all the delicious temptations leading to overindulging. If you have a healthy eating plan in place before the holidays, this can…
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Mark Your Calendar!
Each season the Ocean Reef Medical Center Foundation organizes educational programs for the community featuring carefully chosen speakers from well-respected hospitals on topics relevant to current medical advancements. Here is…
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Medicare Open Enrollment is NOW
Medicare’s open enrollment period started on Oct. 15 and runs through Dec. 7, 2023. Now is the time to reevaluate your Medicare insurance which typically consists of Part A, Part…
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Physical Therapy Introduces Thomas Barreiro, D.P.T.
The Medical Center is pleased to announce the addition of Thomas Barreiro to its Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Department. He is a native Floridian and grew up in Homestead,…
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Sportsman’s Donor Club Challenge Blood Drive: March 27 and 28!
The seventh-annual Sportsman’s Donor Club Challenge Blood Drive will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, March 27-28, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day at the Medical Center. The Challenge is a…
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Let’s Have a Drink or Two!
Once you begin to feel thirsty, you have already waited too long. Thirst is a signal that you’ve already lost about 1 percent of your body’s water content; however, thirst…
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Lecture Series Explores “Marijuana: Is it Medicine Yet?”
The 2018 Medical Center Lecture Series continues Tuesday, March 13, with “Marijuana: Is it Medicine Yet?” presented by Donald L. Abrams, M.D., chief of the Hematology-Oncology Division at San Francisco General Hospital.…
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Doggone It: It’s Pre-hab Time!
Most of us think of physical therapy as re-habilitation, but there is a growing trend in medicine and physical therapy to pre-habilitate patients prior to surgery. Prehabilitation, or pre-hab for short, is an exercise…
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Private Medicine Plus+: Personalized Medicine Par Excellence
The Medical Center at Ocean Reef was one of the early providers of concierge medicine, a popular program with more than 200 members in the Private Medicine program. Continuing our trend of…
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