Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center Appoints New Emergency Department Medical Director - Fresno, CA, United States - South Florida Hospital News

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Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center Appoints New Emergency Department Medical Director

January 28th 2021- Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center announces the appointment of Dr. Bob Deichert as its new medical director of the emergency department. Dr. Deichert, will work with the medical staff to ensure patients requiring emergent care continue to receive the high quality, compassionate care that Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center delivers.

"We are fortunate to have Dr. Deichert as a new member of our emergency medicine leadership team," said Teresa Urquhart, CEO of Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center. "His impressive clinical expertise and proven leadership skills will no doubt have a positive impact on our community and on the patients we serve."

With more than three decades of clinical experience in emergency medicine in rural, suburban, urban and trauma settings, Dr. Deichert's leadership experience includes emergency department medical directorships at West Seattle General Hospital, Los Medanos Community hospital, and Ridgecrest Regional Hospital, where he also has served as chief of staff and executive board member.

Most recently, he served as the medical director at Samaritan Hospital, a level III trauma center in Washington State. Other key positions throughout his career include regional medical director for TeamHealth, and county EMS director.

Dr. Deichert graduated from the University of Minnesota medical school. He then did his PGY-1 training at Virginia Mason Hospital, Seattle, Washington with a medicine concentration. He did his residency at the University of California, San Francisco/Fresno, in emergency medicine, and at the University of California, San Diego, in psychiatry, where he served as chief resident psychiatrist his final year of this residency. He is board certified in emergency medicine.

About Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center:

Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center is a 199-bed acute care hospital serving the medical and healthcare needs of Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast for over 50 years. The hospital was the first in Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast to perform open-heart surgery and has since remained one of the area's leading heart hospitals, having performed nearly 19,000 open-heart surgeries and more than 100,000 cardiac catheterizations to date.

The Heart & Vascular Institute at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center offers comprehensive cardiac care and advanced minimally-invasive procedures including Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR), MitraClip, and Watchman. The hospital is the first in Palm Beach, Broward and Martin County to adopt the minimally invasive convergent approach to treat patients with atrial fibrillation. The hospital's outpatient cardiac rehabilitation program is designed for people recovering from a heart attack, coronary bypass or valve surgery, and angioplasty or stent procedures.

Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center offers advanced orthopedic care to our community. Some of the services offered include: total joint replacements for hip, knee and shoulder, sports medicine, arthroscopy, podiatry, fracture management and inpatient/outpatient rehabilitation. In 2019, Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center was the only hospital in the State of Florida to utilize the NAVIO robotic-assisted surgical system to perform total and partial knee replacements.

Additional services include an Advanced Certified Primary Stroke Center, diagnostic imaging, general and robotic surgery, an Epilepsy Program and 24-hour emergency care. Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center's Emergency Department offers all private rooms and is equipped with technology to help increase patient comfort, reduce wait times and provide up-to-the-minute patient status, as well as immediate access to film-based radiological images, interpretations and related data. The hospital's Epilepsy Program is the first of its kind in Palm Beach County to have a dedicated Epilepsy Monitoring Unit that is equipped with long-term video monitoring, a specialized form of an EEG for patients who suffer from seizures. The hospital acquired the da Vinci Xi Robotic Surgical System which can be used across a spectrum of minimally-invasive procedures such as cardiovascular, colorectal, general surgery, gynecology, urology and more.

The hospital was the recipient of the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines – Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite Plus from 2015 – 2020 and also was named a High Performance Hospital for Heart Failure in U.S. News and World Report's Best Hospitals. Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center was also named as the best heart center in Palm County from the Palm Beach Post 2020 Best of Palm Beach County Awards. For more information or for a complimentary physician referral, please call or visit