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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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