A Web services strategy is opening the door to integration among the various departments and agencies in Miami-Dade County. Using Web services to extract processes from its mainframe systems is helping Miami-Dade County get more bangs from its mainframe bucks. It extends the life of legacy systems. Processes embedded many...
In Miami-Dade County, Florida, health care for the medically uninsured is provided primarily by the county-run system, the Public Health Trust PHT, which operates a number of facilities, including the prestigious Jackson Memorial Hospital JMH and a network of primary-care clinics. This centralized system has led to uninsured patients having...
HOLLYWOOD, Fla., July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The 4th annual Florida Gaming Summit, which takes place October 6-7 at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino here, will present the leading gaming, legal, financial and tribal experts to analyze the myriad issues concerning one of the country's most dynamic gaming markets....
To Commemorate GFB Also Launches Building 7 Great Communities Campaign CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- Great Florida Bank (NASDAQ:GFLB), today announced that with the opening of its twenty-eighth Solution Center in Boca Raton they have completed an aggressive expansion begun six weeks ago. The expansion to twenty-eight Solution Centers...
Alex Rodriguez's wife filed for divorce Monday. But if the past week is any indication, his off-field life won't affect his ability to swing a bat. Cynthia Rodriguez's divorce petition, filed in Miami-Dade County Circuit Court, claims she and their two children were "emotionally abandoned" and the marriage...
NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings assigns an 'A+' rating to Miami-Dade County the county, FL's approximately $68 million water and sewer system revenue bonds, series 2008A and $400 million water and sewer system revenue refunding bonds, series 2008B. The bonds are scheduled to price July 10, 2008 through negotiated sale....
NEW CROSS MURDERS French students Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez were tied up, tortured and stabbed 243 times in an act of unbelievable savagery. What can explain the slaughter in SE14? David Randall investigates For all the relentless murdering in London in recent...
Skanska has been awarded a contract to upgrade the South District Wastewater Treatment Plant in Miami, Florida. The contract amount is USD 93 M, about SEK 570 M, which is included in order bookings for the second quarter 2008. Customer is Miami-Dade County. STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Regulatory News:...
ONLY CONNECT: The Way To Save Our Schools. Rudolph F. Crew. New York: Farrar, Straws and Giroux, 2007, 272 pp. $24.00. Rudolph F. "Rudy" Crew holds a Doctor of Education degree in educational administration and a Master's of Education degree in urban education, has held several collegiate teaching positions, and...
CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- BankUnited Financial Corporation (NASDAQ:BKUNA), parent company of BankUnited FSB, today announced that it is pursuing alternative sources of capital and strategic opportunities in addition to those previously announced. The Company held a special meeting of stockholders at which stockholders approved an amendment to the...
Enters Southeast Florida Market NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif., June 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IPC The Hospitalist Company, Inc. , a leading national physician group practice company, announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Hospitalists of America HOA, headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida. The acquisition will...
NAPLES, Fla. -- TIB Financial Corp. (NASDAQ:TIBB), parent company of TIB Bank, The Bank of Venice and Naples Capital Advisors, leading financial services providers serving the greater Naples, Bonita Springs and Fort Myers area, Highlands County, South Miami-Dade County, the Florida Keys and Sarasota County, today said its Board of...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. MCT -- Federal officials said Friday that tomatoes grown in Florida or Mexico caused at least some of the salmonella outbreak that has sickened 552 people, and they are sending teams this weekend to inspect every point in several states where the produce was handled. ...
ReachLocal , Inc.( http://www.reachlocal.com ), a leading provider of local online marketingsolutions for small- to medium-sized businesses, announced today theopening of sales offices in South Florida to serve local businesses in theMiami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe Counties. ReachLocal's South Florida offices are the second Florida market to beserved by...
DALLAS -- PHNS today announced that the Public Health Trust, an agency and instrumentality of Miami-Dade County, Florida that operates Jackson Health System, including Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida Jackson, has entered into an agreement for PHNS to provide receivables management services to Jackson's Patient Financial Services departments. PHNS...
Will Be the First U.S. Economic Development Agency to Integrate New Street-Level Photo Technology into Its Site MIAMI -- Blue Dasher Technologies today announced that The Beacon Council, Miami-Dade's official economic development organization, has selected Blue Dasher's 360-degree street-level imaging technology to assist companies considering relocation and expansion...
TORONTO -- Yogen Fruz, a frozen yogurt chain with over 1,100 stores in over 20 countries, announced today that it has signed a master franchise agreement with Miami-based Frozenguy LLC that will bring 21 stores to south Florida over the next eight years. The agreement is part of an aggressive...
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Building attendance in Florida has never been easy, given the unpredictable and severe weather conditions, not to mention second-division finishes by the home teams. But the Florida Marlins and Tampa Bay Rays hope new ballparks will help persuade more fans to attend games. The...
AMERIGROUP's Service Area Increases from 8 Counties to 12 VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., June 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AMERIGROUP Corporation announced today that the Florida Healthy Kids program has completed a competitive bidding process that will expand the role of the Company's Florida subsidiary in offering health insurance...
NORWALK, Conn. -- EMCOR Group, Inc. (NYSE: EME), a Fortune 500[R] leader in mechanical and electrical construction, energy infrastructure and facilities services for a diverse range of businesses, announced that its Poole and Kent Company of Florida subsidiary has been awarded a $135 million contract by Miami-Dade County for the...
