- November 14, 2024
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Nick Crouch
Florida Hospital Flagler honors 130 of its volunteers.
Audra Rhodes
Kati Mach
Marisa Sanders
Pearson VUE Test Center relocates
Pearson VUE Authorized Test Centers, a privately-owned, third-party testing facilities, which provide on-site, on-demand testing for certification and professional licensure exams, has relocated to 5400 E. Highway 100, next door to the Flagler Auditorium.
Pearson VUE, formerly located on Matanzas High School campus, is the global leader in computer-based testing for high-stakes certification and licensure exams in the healthcare, finance, information technology, academic and admissions markets.
One test that is available at the Pearson VUE Authorized Test Centers is the GED test. Call 447-4345.
Tropical Smoothie Café owner wins Franchisee Award, plans to add another location
Nick Crouch, owner of nine Tropical Smoothie Cafés in North Florida and South Georgia, has been named Tropical Smoothie Café National Franchisee of the Year. Crouch was selected as the best operator in the country by a panel of his peers at Tropical Smoothie Café.
Crouch, who is just 30-years-old, is the president of QSR Management Group. He acquired his first Tropical Smoothie Café nearly five years ago, and has since added eight more locations to his group. He currently has five more cafés in different stages of development in North Florida and South Georgia that will open in 2016 and 2017, including a Café under construction in Palm Coast. Visit www.TropicalSmoothieFranchise.com.
Florida Hospital honors volunteers
Florida Hospital Flagler hosted a volunteer appreciation luncheon last month at Halifax Plantation Golf Club in Ormond Beach for more than 130 volunteers during National Healthcare Volunteer Week.
Florida Hospital Flagler currently has more than 260 active volunteers assisting in 25 departments throughout the hospital. Since 2005, the volunteers have provided more than 26,000 free blood pressure checks at the hospital and cared for more than 6,000 guests in the Judith C. Macko Cancer Resource Library since it opened in 2010. Financially, this organization has donated more than $1.6 million to the hospital since 1983. Call 586-4234.
Florida Hospital gives free sport physicals
Florida Hospital Flagler performed nearly 400 free sports physicals for student athletes from both FPC and Matanzas High School.
Florida Hospital Flagler pulled together a team of 15 physicians, 35 staff volunteers and 12 Daytona State College nursing students to volunteer their time and talents to provide these physicals. This huge undertaking by the hospital enables the students to participate in sporting events for the coming school year.
Considering that the average cost for a student physical at a Walk-In Clinic is approximately $30 each, Florida Hospital Flagler provided approximately $12,000 worth of free services to local teenagers with this annual community event.
Florida Hospital recognized for excellence in employee engagement
For the sixth consecutive year, Adventist Health System, which includes the six Florida Hospitals in the Volusia and Flagler counties, has received the Gallup Great Workplace Award. This award recognizes organizations for their extraordinary ability to promote engaged workplace cultures that drive positive results.
Each year, a panel of Gallup workplace experts evaluates applicants and assesses them against select criteria in a comprehensive workplace study. Gallup’s rigorous scientific research links employee engagement to nine performance outcomes such as customer ratings, productivity and quality.
Winners of this year’s award comprise a prestigious group of organizations that average a ratio of engaged employees more than seven times what Gallup found in nationally representative U.S. polling and more than 21 times what Gallup found in workforces globally.
According to Gallup, all of this year’s award recipients have shown measurable impact as a result of having a more engaged workforce.
Gallup will honor winners of this year’s award during its Spring Summit on May 10-12, in Omaha, Nebraska.
Hired!
Donna Tofal, lead real estate agent at Toscana Palm Coast, has added Audra Rhodes to her real estate team – Team Tofal with Realty Executives.
Alliance Financial Partners, Inc. has added Katherine 'Kati' Mach to its financial consulting team as a senior operations manager.
Palm Coast Chiropractic Center proprietor Dr. Jennifer Thornton added Yoga Instructor Marisa Sanders to her team.
The company is also planning new lunchtime yoga classes for busy patients who have trouble scheduling wellness time for themselves in the mornings or evenings. The new yoga class schedule will be announced next month.
