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ROSA has been used in knee replacements since 2019. Its success prompted the hospital to expand ROSA’s role in the operating room.

The owner of Sarasota Home Watch conducts all home inspections personally, checking air-conditioning and plumbing and looking for signs of pests.

The community can donate unwrapped gifts or sponsor families enrolled in Tidewell’s Blue Butterfly program.

The Mitral Valve Repair award helps residents searching for the best and most experienced hospitals and surgeons in their communities.

Sarasota Herald-Tribune The Central West Coast Chapter of the Florida Public Relations Association recognized the area’s best work in public relations, marketing and communications during its “2021 Image Awards: PR is a Circus" event on April 13. The local Image Awards competition is conducted annually to recognize outstanding public relations programs and to encourage and promote the development of public relations professionalism in our area.  Winners demonstrate the very best examples ...

Sarasota Herald-Tribune Blake Medical Center in Bradenton has performed its 500th Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement procedure.  TAVR is an alternative treatment option for patients with symptomatic aortic valve stenosis, including those who are not candidates for open-heart valve surgery.  Blake was the first to bring the TAVR procedure to Manatee County and has performed more TAVR cases than any other hospital in Manatee County. TAVR is a procedure that allows specially trained teams ...

Sarasota Herald-Tribune Manatee Memorial Hospital is offering a new option to treat carotid artery disease and prevent future strokes using a new procedure called TransCarotid Artery Revascularization. TCAR is a clinically proven, minimally invasive and safe approach for high surgical risk patients who need carotid artery treatment. Manatee Memorial is the first hospital in Manatee County to offer the TCAR procedure. The first TCAR procedure was performed Feb. 11 by Howard Hermans and S.J....

Easterseals Happiness House and InStride Therapy have formally merged all their business operations. The unification will expand Easterseals diverse inventory of therapies and strengthen offerings in the South Sarasota County region for individuals with disabilities and their families. The merger expands traditional Easterseals therapies – including occupational, physical, speech and behavioral – to include hippotherapy, which aids physical needs, and equine-assisted therapy, which assi...