- November 22, 2024
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Blu Boutique opened May 1 in The Trails Shopping Center at 264 N. Nova Road, featuring trendy, contemporary clothing, as described by owner Jerrie Lee.
The shop is attractively located in a square of shops, tucked away behind a fountain.
“I want to get the word out that I’m here,” she said recently.
Lee said many boutiques are pricey so she is keeping her prices affordable for the average woman with a low profit margin. Also, she said many boutiques tend to have only small sizes, and she has the larger sizes.
A former operating room nurse, she said she needed a lifestyle change and decided to fulfill her lifelong dream of owning her own business.
“I’ve always loved fashion,” she said.
The age demographic of her merchandise could be of thought of as young, but she said there’s something for all ages.
“I had a lady in her 70s who bought her first pair of leather pants,” she said with a smile.
She’s working on her own fashion line, designing a line of bathing suits. She is working with a manufacturer and expects the suits to be available in about a year.
“Every woman wants a good bathing suit,” she said.
She and her husband chose the location after looking around, including One Daytona and Beach Street in Daytona Beach.
“I love this shopping center,” he said. “It has a nice look.”
Timmy’s Playroom planned at hospital
AdventHealth Daytona Beach, located on Williamson Boulevard near Ormond Beach, will open a Timmy’s Playroom with the Tim Tebow Foundation on July 31.
Timmy’s Playroom serves as an oasis for pediatric patients, visiting children and their families. The facility will have a relaxing environment with a football décor to encourage children to play, according to a press release.
Timmy’s Playrooms have opened in hospitals throughout the south, and this is the first in the AdventHealth system of 50 hospitals. It will be located on the hospital’s fourth floor, where services for women and children are located.
The vision for Timmy’s Playroom started when Tebow was a student and football quarterback at the University of Florida and visited hospitalized children at UF Health Shands Hospital. The playrooms are one of several outreach programs of the Tim Tebow Foundation, which serves the needs of children.
Jill Simpkins, a member of the AdventHealth Daytona Beach Foundation board of directors and a driving force behind the project, knows how valuable play be for children during an extended hospital stay.
“With the premature birth of my son, Alex, I had the opportunity to understand first-hand how a place like this can provide a welcome distraction and a stress-free timeout when a family is enduring challenging health issues,” she said in a press release.
The cost of building and maintaining Timmy’s Playroom is funded through donations to the AdventHealth Daytona Beach Foundation and by the Tim Tebow Foundation. Fundraising is underway to furnish and equip the playroom. To support this initiative, call 386-231-5102 or visit https://donation.adventhealth.com/Daytona-beach.
AdventHealth graded in safety, healing
AdventHealth hospitals in Flagler and Volusia counties recently received an ‘A’ for safety from The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit organization. Medical errors, injuries, accidents, infections, etc. are considerations, according to a press release.
Also, the Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center at AdventHealth Daytona Beach received the 2018 Center of Distinction award from Healogics Inc., a wound care management company. Patient satisfaction and healing rates were factors.
Hospital, university to partner
Halifax Health and University of Florida Health have announced a collaboration to enhance the neurosurgery services offered by Halifax Health Medical Center. Four board-certified neurosurgeons, all associate professors in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Florida College of Medicine, comprise the program’s team.
“This level of expertise increases the number of advanced surgical procedures available to Halifax Health patients without having to travel out of the area to Orlando, Jacksonville or Gainesville,” said Matt Petkus, vice president of operations for Halifax Health.
Visit www.halifaxhealth.org/neuro or call 386-425-2225.
In other Halifax Health news, the medical center has been named a Screening Center of Excellence by the Lung Cancer Alliance.
