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Wayne T. Price , FLORIDA TODAYPublished 2:50 p.m. ET March 4, 2017 | Updated 2:51 p.m. ET March 4, 2017
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VIERA — At Patrick Air Force Base, dozens of soldiers were holding medical trauma drills as part of the 920th Rescue Wing's 5th Annual MEDBEACH joint medical response exercise.
At Viera Regional Park, more than 500 people took part in Health First Health Plans Get Active! Brevard, featuring "Stop the Bleed" and “Friends & Family” CPR training.
And just west of that event, 125 people took part in the Brevard Indo-American Medical and Dental Association (BIMDA) held a major medical conference — "The Business of Medicine" —at the Brevard County Health Department's Posey Conference Center, 2555 Judge Fran Jamieson Way, Viera.
In short it, it was a big day in Brevard to learn about medicine and health and wellness.
This was the first Get Active! Brevard event this year, and Health First plans more community health events in 2017.
“Health First Health Plans is committed to improving the health and well-being of Brevard County," Matthew Gerrell, Health First’s vice president of marketing and communications. "Our lives are busy, and often this can cause us to push aside healthy activities. Our mission, through events like these, is to show how we can easily stay active and improve health outcomes for children and their families.”
At Patrick Air Force Base, 250 personnel from the U.S. Air Force active duty, Reserve and Air National Guard as well as the U.S. Army active duty and National Guard took part in the 920th Rescue Wing's MEDBEACH joint medical response exercise. The two-day event concludes Sunday.
Air Force and Army edics stabilize a simulated patient connected to an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine (ECMO) upon boarding a C-17 for transport from at Patrick Air Force Base, The simulation was part of the 5th annual MEDBEACH joint medical response exercise. (Photo: Provided)
Participants will receive up to 60 hours of combat readiness medical evacuation credit and full-scale exercise credit. The exercise included scenarios which incorporate elements of mass casualty, natural disaster, disease containment and chemical, biologic, radiologic, nuclear and explosive.
At the BIMDA event, the topics were healthcare law, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, or MACRA and accountable care organizations or ACOs. Also included will be discussions on estate planning and asset protection.
Anchor sponsors for the event were GrayRobinson, Right Angle Solutions and Space Coast ACO.
Also included will be discussions on estate planning and asset protection.
About 125 people took part in the Brevard Indo-American Medical and Dental Association (BIMDA) held a major medical conference — "The Business of Medicine" —at the Brevard County Health Department's Posey Conference Center. (Photo: WAYNE T. PRICE/FLORIDA TODAY)
"One of the goals of the business conference is to introduce the best and brightest minds in town to the physician community," said Glad Kurian, one of the founders of BIMDA, who has been involved in healthcare issues ever since the nonprofit organization started more than two decades ago.
