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New Computed Tomography (CT)

Placed In Service

On Friday, February 28, 2014, The Health & Wellness Center's brand new GE 64 slice CT scanner went operational. All of the staff was excited as the first patients were being scanned on GE's latest platform offering some of the lowest doses of radiation with the highest speeds for scanning. The technology advancements available today are just absolutely amazing. For anyone who had a full body scan in the past, you can compare upwards of 20 millisieverts of radiation and about 30 minutes on the scanner then, to approximately 4 millisieverts today accomplished in approximately 2 minutes. It takes more time to get you situated on the table than the actual scan. And, as far as image quality, there is absolutely no comparison. When speaking to the radiologist shortly after he received the first images, he was stunned by the image quality we were sending him.

The Center has the ability to scan with or without contrast, oral and IV. This scanners specialized feature includes special bone, cardiac and neurological, and vessel studies. And as with all imagining modalities at the Health & Wellness Center all studies are read by Board certified Radiologist that specializes in the particular modality and subspecialty.

The CT will be operational from 8am - 4:30pm Monday through Friday. For now we are trying to schedule full body scan patients, which include a carotid Ultra Sound in the afternoons when the clinic is less busy. Cardiac scans and other contrasted studies will be handled on an as needed basis.

We do not have records from the previous vendor of the body scans, and therefore we do not know when your previous scan was done. Please continue to stand by the recommendation that you not have a full body scan more than once in any 5 year period.

We will accept outside orders for CT scans, but as with outside lab orders we would like to have a copy of the order from the prescribing physician at least 24 hours prior to your appointment.

When making an appointment for any CT make sure we have your correct email as we will email you instructions so that you may properly prepare for your particular scan.

Call the appointment desk @ 561-969-6663 or email them at appointments@myffbenefits.com.

Health & Wellness Center

Pharmacy Contact Information

The PBC FF's Health & Wellness Center Pharmacy now has its own email and phone number. Any questions about prescriptions or prescription refill requests should go through one of these methods.

Also I would like to introduce Chrystal Estremera our pharmacy tech; many of you know Chrystal from the front desk where she was helping out until the pharmacy became a reality.

Please feel free to contact Chrystal about anything pharmacy related.

Pharmacy Direct Line 561-337-3353

Pharmacy Email - pharmacy@myffbenefits.com

NEW CLINIC HOURS

As a reminder new Health & Wellness Center hours.

Monday - Friday 8am - 8pm

*Saturday 9am - 5pm

*Saturday hours reserved for non-firefighter physicals,

Primary Care and Urgent Care visits.

Closed 3pm-6pm 1st Wednesday of each month for training

What's New at Benefits Fund

Health & Wellness Center First Wednesday Each Month

Please be advised that the Health & Wellness Center will be closed for Training, equipment upgrades, staff meetings and various other items the 1st Wednesday of every month from 3pm – 6pm. The clinic will reopen at 6pm and remain open until the normal 8pm closing time. This monthly closing will begin on April 2nd. Read More...

Unscheduled Health & Wellness Center Visits

Unscheduled Health & Wellness Center Visits One of the main goals of the Board of Trustees of the Employee Benefits Fund when they opened the Health & Wellness Center was to provide our people with a better medical experience. That goal is a never ending work in progress. Read More...

Prescription Medication Notice

Prescription Medication Notice In preparation for handling a majority of your prescription medication needs through the Health & Wellness Center, if you chose to have your medications dispensed here please read the following information………. Read More...

New Premium Rates for 2014

To View 2014 Rates click here..... 2014 Medical Plan 2014 Dental Plan 2014 Summary of Benefits and Coverage To All Plan Participants, The Board of Trustees had their annual Plan Document meeting last month. Read More...

Flu/Shingles Shots

A limited supply of Flu Vaccines are still available, adult & children, once they are gone, they are gone, we are unable to get any more supplies as manufactures make a limited supply of the vaccines each year. Read More...

EXPECTING?

If you are currently expecting a new baby in your life don’t forget about the Benefits Fund Cord Blood harvesting and cryogenic storage program. For only $100 out of your pocket you can protect your newborn from numerous health issue’s. The Fund will pick up the balance of the cost for harvesting the stem cells and storing them for 18 years…….. It’s well worth the small investment on your part.

Call the Fund office to get a brochure and contact information for the Stem Cell Cryobank located at the Bethesda Health City on Hagen Ranch Road in Boynton Beach.

We will also cover your future storage fees if you had your child's cord blood stored with another vendor prior to the Fund implementing the program in January 2011, call the Fund office for more details.

UMR.COM Access

We hope that you have had an opportunity to experience the enhanced services on umr.com and will find that the new features increase the productivity of your day-to-day benefit-related tasks.

Please remember to use your new login information to access umr.com.

Effective at the end of the day on November 30, 2011, your old login information will be disabled. This means that you will no longer be able to access the portal with your old user ID and password. You must use your new login information.

Click here for a flyer that you can use as a reminder to set up your new access to umr.com.