Brevard Business News

TAKE A DRONE TOUR! Family and Locally Owned Fitness Club Merritt Island Among Longest-Running Fitness Center in Brevard

WATCH: Personal Trainer Kirsi Obermeier at Fitness Club Merritt Island provides a testimonial about the great services at the locally owned and operated facility. Members will find a bounty of classes and amenities at the newly expanded facility, including an array of brand-new modern high-performance Hammer Strength training equipment, an on-site childcare area and a protein and juice bar. […]

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Brevard Trauma Survivors, Lifesaving Medical Teams Reunite At Health First’s Holmes Regional Medical Center

Health First’s Holmes Regional Medical Center hosted an emotional, inspirational, and celebratory reunion event Wednesday for numerous trauma survivors and their loved ones – and the teams that saved their lives. Above, Edgar Perez, center, was involved in a high-speed motorcycle accident on Sept. 9, 2022, losing a leg in the injury but saving his life. The young father of two recalls very little from the accident that day, but he credits his survival to the fast response of EMS and the Holmes Regional trauma team. […]

Brevard Business News

Health First Medical Group Honored With Governor’s Sterling Award, First Ever for a Medical Group

Physicians, administrators and staff at Health First Medical Group are celebrating the news that the Florida Sterling Council has named Brevard County’s leading medical specialty group a Governor’s Sterling Award winner for 2023. In more than 30 years and nearly 100 awards, no medical group has ever been awarded the Governor’s Sterling Award for excellence in management and operations. […]

Brevard News

CHAPTER 2: Military/Nursing Career Takes Health First Leader From Great Plains of North Dakota to the Space Coast

As Health First Holmes Regional Medical Center’s new Vice President for Nursing, Dixie Aune enters just her third month on the job leading hundreds of nurses for the region’s largest hospital, she is also reflecting on a 35-year career that’s taken her from her childhood home in North Dakota to the Space Coast. Aune considers her new role at Holmes Regional to be part of a second chapter to her story – with new opportunities and challenges ahead. It’s been an amazing road from the Great Plains of North Dakota to the land of sunshine, sand and rocket launches. […]