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      Tampa General Hospital Bridges The Gap



      To Complex Cancer Care



        When  Palm  Beach  County  and  Treasure  Coast   travel accommodations, and coordinate follow-up care   They prayed for me and for the doctors to do a good
      residents need specialized cancer treatments, they now   back home.                                  job,” said Barnes. “And I can’t say enough about how
      enjoy a seamless connection to the TGH Cancer Institute.    “This is the experience that we offer our patients on   wonderful the medical staff was. They treated me like I
      By Chris Curtland                                  the East Coast of Florida,” explained Padhya. “The home   was their grandfather or father. There’s something that
        Palm Beach Gardens resident Arthur “Steve” Barnes   team of doctors in Palm Beach County establishes the   Theodore Roosevelt once said that could be a theme for
      has been battling various types of skin cancer since 1981.   initial trust with the patient and provides the ongoing care   this hospital: ‘No one cares how much you know until
      His  42-year  journey  has  taken  him  to  dermatologists,   364 days of the year, and then I come in for the surgical   they know how much you care.’ TGH really cared about
      radiation oncologists, and medical oncologists, and last   event. But it’s a continuum of care. The TGH network   my case.”
      year, it took him to Tampa General Hospital (TGH).  has flourished and bridged the gap across the state.”    Patients like Barnes now have access to the complex
        “Most of my cancer has been pretty easy to treat –     Barnes credits his successful outcome to the entire   care they need in the environment where they need it.
      basal cell carcinoma and even squamous cell. But about   medical team, but also, his family. His wife, daughter, and   “The continuity and integration is so valuable because
      three or four years ago, it started to get aggressive. It   son participated in his telehealth visits and encouraged   we don’t have that in our backyard,” Schwarzberg added.
      got complex,” Barnes explained. “I’ve been so blessed   him throughout the process.                  “But now we have it as an extension, and patients can
      to have doctors who cooperate with or work at TGH.”    “My family and prayer warriors pushed me to keep   come back home to heal.”
        Barnes’ local dermatologist and surgeon referred him   going when it got discouraging. My wife hugged me when     For more information, please visit  TGH.org/
      to Dr. Abraham Schwarzberg, a Palm Beach County    I needed it during the battles with chemo and radiation.   ThePalmBeaches or call (561) 739-4TGH.
      medical oncologist who serves as TGH’s chief of the
      Cancer Institute, executive vice president of Network
      Development, and vice president of Clinical and
      Translational Research.






















      Steve Barnes and Dr. Tapan Padhya greeting a guest at
      Tampa General Hospital’s recent community event in Jupiter

         “There are a lot of things about TGH that are unique
       and important, as well as hard to appreciate until you
       need a certain level of care,” said Schwarzberg. “There
       are wonderful physicians and pieces of the cancer
       treatment puzzle in Palm Beach County, but the lack of a
       unified, academic backbone limits access to translational
       research, clinical work, and new drug development.
       Our relationship with TGH and the University of South
       Florida has been invaluable for our patients.”
         Dr. Schwarzberg referred Barnes to Dr. Tapan Padhya,
       TGH’s Chief for the Ear, Nose, and Throat Institute,
       and Professor and Chairman for the Department of
       Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at University of
       South Florida (USF) Health Morsani College of Medicine.
       Padhya performed a surgical intervention on Barnes in
       Tampa within one month of first seeing him.
         “Dr. Padhya saved all the nerves in my face and
       removed all the cancer because he and Dr. Schwarzberg
       were so on top of everything,” Barnes said. “I was worried
       I was going to come out looking like Frankenstein, so
       it’s really amazing I look as much like Brad Pitt as I do
       now.”
         East Coast patients that need a transfer to TGH enjoy
       a seamless transition to Tampa through the hospital’s
       Health Ambassador  Program,  which  helps  schedule
       appointments, submit paperwork, arrange hotel and

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