PANAMA CITY The top medical professional at a Panama City hospital says there s no reason to believe the COVID-19 vaccine won t work on newer strains of the virus being reported across the world.
Dr. Neil Kooy, chief medical officer at Gulf Coast Regional Medical Center in Panama City, said there are a few main deviations of the coronavirus gaining global momentum. The first and most common originated in the United Kingdom, the second emerged out of South Africa and the third surfaced in Nigeria.
While those variants could be more contagious than others, which might make them more dangerous to susceptible populations with pre-existing conditions, they don t seem to cause worse symptoms, Kooy said.
PANAMA CITY Patches on the Go owners Kineca and Ray Adkison are living a dream that started over a beer.
While sitting at Patches Pub & Grill on Thomas Drive, Ray had asked Vince Greiner who owns the Panama City Beach restaurant with wife Cindy Greiner, if he d help him make a food truck menu. I ve done so much research over the years, Ray said. I just told Vince one day I d like to run a food truck and asked if he d help me make a menu. He grabbed the menu off the bar and said, This is your menu.
The Panama City hospital recently announced that Dr. Neil Kooy joined the hospital as its chief medical officer last week. Kooy brings more than 15 years of clinical leadership experience to his new role.
“We are pleased to welcome Dr. Kooy to the GCRMC family and as our CMO, we know his expertise will be a valuable asset to our community,” GCRMC CEO Brad Griffin, said in a news release. “His wealth of knowledge and background in pediatrics, patient quality and safety are sure to lend a new perspective to the overall benefit of our team and the service we provide to our patients.”
Ten, 15, 20 years ago, if you needed to have any procedure that required surgery, you needed to go to the hospital, Quattlebaum said. Outpatient surgery centers have evolved over the years and as medical advances come along, more and more procedures can be done in outpatient settings.
According to Quattlebaum, there won t be any changes to Panama City Surgery Center when it comes to its name or how it operates. Flagship s only role is that the company has acquired it.
Panama City Surgery Center was appealing to Flagship because most outpatient surgery centers are one specialty. The local facility covers most specialties, which was attractive to Flagship.
PANAMA CITY Bay County welcomed its first new baby of 2021 early Friday morning.
According to Gulf Coast Regional Medical Center, Victoria Rain Williams was born at 1:37 a.m. at the hospital to Amy Williams. The new infant was born 20.5 inches long and weighing just over 8 pounds.