R-2 resolution recognizing HCA Bayonet Point Hospital

27:38Now let's raise two.

27:40Um Commissioner Mariano, is it resolution three HCA Bayonet Point? Yes, yep, they're all

27:44here. You guys are all here from the code. Okay.

27:46All right, please um HCA Florida Bayonet Point Hospital, please step to the podium.

27:54All right. I'll go ahead and read the resolution first. Resolution number 24-058, a resolution by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, recognizing the importance of HCA Florida Bayonet Point Hospital. Whereas, as a beacon of support and healing for Hudson and the surrounding Pasco County area, HCA Florida Bayonet Point Hospital is a community cornerstone dedicated to delivering compassionate, personalized care. And whereas, as HCA Florida Bayonet Point Hospital, more than 1,600 colleagues

28:24and over 790 physicians care for their patients of all ages like family. Key services include 24-hour emergency care, a comprehensive stroke center, a heart center, and a wound care and hyperbaric medical medicine chamber. And RARAS, as the only designated trauma center in Pasco Hernando, and Citrus Counties, HCA Florida Bayonet Point Hospital, is designated as a level two trauma center for its 24-hour immediate coverage by general surgeons.

28:58Anesthesiology, emergency medicine, radiology, and critical care. ANRAS HCA, Florida Bayonet Point Hospital's commitment to exceeding clinical expectations is affirmed by the prestigious recognition it has earned in the areas of quality and safety. Most notably, the hospital received a 2023 Health Grades Patient Safety Excellence Award. A distinction which places the hospital among the nation's top 10 percent. Recently, HCA H HCA Florida Bayonet Point Hospital was named one of America's 100 best

29:29hospitals for orthopedic spine and vascular surgery, gastrointestinal care, and surgery and surgical care. ANRAS HCA Florida Bayonet Point Hospital recently opened. A eight hundred oh I'm sorry, eighty-five million patient tower housing, a hundred and two patient beds in a modern state-of-the-art setting for inpatient rehabilitation, progressive care, surgical intensive care, orthopedics, and spine care. And RAS HCA Florida Bayonet Point Hospital has embarked

29:59on a 20 million modernization project, including aesthetic upgrades to patient. Patient rooms and support areas, which is scheduled for completion by the end of 2024.

30:11Bayonet Point Hospital is promised is a promise of unwavering care and continuous advancement in healthcare with a commitment to keeping our community healthy and thriving. Now therefore be it resolved by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, that said Board hereby recognizes the importance of HCA Florida Bayonet Point Hospital and commends them for their dedication and professionalism, done and resolved in rec regular session, with a quorum present and voting this twenty third day of january, twenty twenty four.

30:39No approval? Second. Got a motion and second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion passed unanimously. Welcome. So

30:49Thank you. My name is Sally Seymour and I am so proud to be the CEO CEO. Would you like to say something before I start? Okay. So proud to be the CEO of Bayonet Point Hospital and really honored to be here today. I want to thank our county commissioners and all of our county officials for this incredible recognition and for acknowledging the tireless work that our caregivers do each and every day. I want to introduce some of the folks I have with me today. Uh Dr. Christine Bihan. Our board chair who has been serving this uh this community for 30 years now. Um we also

31:19have Heather Fiorentino who wasn't able to join us today. She is our vice chair. Dr. Rami Aquell is our chief of staff, and Dr. Jose Pascual is our vice chief of staff. They're both back at the hospital treating patients right now. But without their leadership and dedication, we could not continue to do what we do and continue to grow and evolve and and meet the ever-changing needs of our rapidly growing community. I also want to introduce Will Constantine, our assistant chief nursing officer, who recently joined our organization. Healthcare is truly a calling, and

31:49I am so honored to go to work every day with hundreds of caregivers who dedicate their lives to caring for other people. These heroes spend days, nights, weekends, holidays, hurricanes away from their families and their loved ones, putting the needs of others first and caring for our family and our loved ones. I have two of those incredible heroes with here with us today that I would like to accept this on behalf of Bayonet Point. I want to introduce Jessica Leonard and Lindsay Longstreet Longstreet, two

32:19of our incredible nurses that are on the front lines caring for this community every single day. We are so honored and thank you so much for this acknowledgement.

32:29I think uh I

32:29think we have someone who w may want to say something.

32:35Good morning, Commissioner. Kathy Pearson, Assistant County Administrator for Public Services. I personally know how important this hospital is. Last August, my 38-year-old son, father of two beautiful little girls, daughter-in-law that was pregnant about five and a half months. My son was airlifted on an incident uncontrolled by him. to Bayonet, near his trauma center. Folks, he was two hours from dying. two

33:05hours from dying, and this hospital saved his life. uh the the doctors, Dr. Solomon, Dr. Brown, the nurses, the incredible, incredible team. that saved his life. And no, there was a hurricane there in that time too. And so my daughter in law who was pregnant five and a half months They off made arrangements for her to stay there twenty four seven. Twenty four seven they made arrangements for her to be by her husband. I was home taking

33:35care of the three and the five year old. I'm proud to say my son got to witness the birth of his third daughter on December 10th because of these wonderful people behind us. I don't care what anybody says, this is one of the best hospitals, the most caring. And I was telling Sally the only complaint my daughter-in-law had was, boy, I wish they had a little bit bigger cafeteria. That was her only complaint. So I am blessed beyond. Um 2023, I am glad it's gone and I am so

34:05thankful that we are acknowledging this hospital and thank you from the bottom of my heart. Commissioner, thank you for sponsoring this. We really appreciate it. So with that.

34:14Thank you. Mr. Mariano? Uh that's not fair. I gotta talk after that. Yeah. Should take an owl. You know, uh B H C A Bayonet Point is such a special place. Um, you know, from Dr. Mussonero starting it many, many years ago, uh how it's grown so so well and you know, we're help trying to help you keep on growing as best you can. The care that people get there is uh absolutely phenomenal. Um there was one point very recently both my mother and my father were being treated at the same time. Same days. Uh

34:45both of them got great care, great service. They're both doing great right now. Uh they've helped me as well. Uh other family members, friends that I've had go down there and just knowing that you guys are there. Uh I was very proud many years ago when you b wanted to become a uh a trauma center the first time and went down to Tampa to testify and uh get your support to try to make it happen and proud it's happened and you've elevated from there. But uh I want to say all the hardworking doctors, nurses, um All the all your volunteers, the the volunteer stuff they have is

35:15is amazing as well. All those people dedicated to to make our community better. And Pasco's blessed with great hospitals across the board. Uh we just uh you're just a shining star as well and we're delighted that you're here. Uh delighted that we can honor you with this reward, uh this award because you've earned it er every step of the way. So thank you all.

35:35Yeah, we we certainly appreciate everything that y'all do. Um And he was right in saying it seems like we're the county's becoming more and more in health with with Moffitt, with Advent Health, with Baycare, with different hospitals or Land O' Lakes Uh all children's coming. uh even another hospital or two looking at Pasco County to come to. The benefactor of all that and all your good work that you do are our citizens in Pasco County. So you couldn't ask for anything better than that. And

36:06because everybody's trying to be number one in healthcare. We're gonna get the best care throughout our whole county because of y'all. Thank you. Anyone else want to speak?

36:17Well uh my husband had heart surgery up there, so um We know how renowned your your your hospital is and we're Certainly grateful that you're here in the community and I love our par partnerships together. So thank you so much for coming today.

36:33Okay. Mr. Chairman Mariano. And Sally, I want to say you are such a breath of fresh air coming in. Uh it was just a couple of months ago I went down to meet her. Um speak figure we spend probably fifteen, twenty minutes, whatever. Sh over two hours she spent with me talking about what's going on, how they're doing it, how the improvements are going and the enthusiasm and again I I wanna thank you for being such a great leader for your hospital to to take it to New Heights. So thank you. Okay.

36:58All right, let's have a picture. Um if we'll we'll Clerk and the attorney will stay up here with Mr. Bradford. And the rest of us coming down below.

37:20It's nice to have a picture of the

37:25sort of thing. Okay. Yeah,

37:31Well should I turn that more later?

37:40Good.

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37:45found this one? That was good.

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37:50one.

37:51Okay, everybody, right here first, please. Thank you.

37:57A couple more.

38:03Thank you all. Right.

38:03Thank you.

38:09I'm hard to play.

38:19A big one. To me.

38:23The other one is it's eleven forty five. So we're gonna get we're gonna get to our local.

38:30Okay. But we're still early for Are any of these other resolution are they here and ready to do now or

38:40another one is

38:41for the Star team of the year and the Star Performers.

38:47Right. Yes. Okay. So

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38:54Mm-hmm.

38:55Consent agenda. Okay. So we're gonna wait on unless unless you want to do the I I

39:02get rid of the consent agenda first. Yeah, and we have R.