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Congrats to the 2023 Nurse Nightingale Award Winner

ShandsCair 2 – The Villages is proud to announce our very own Jim Ashley is the 2023 Nurse Nightingale award winner. Jim has been a foundational figure in our program for over a decade and is universally respected. Before joining the ShandsCair team, Jim’s career led him…

Right place, right time

Saving lives on and off the clock Serendipity. It can be thought of as a fortunate accident or something that happens by chance. And it just so happened that a training session and area meetings brought UF Health ShandsCair team members together for a “chance” dinner on March 14.

Saving Lives in the Air

After over a year of preparation, the UF Health ShandsCair team performed its first in-flight prehospital blood transfusion. Don Irving piloted the flight, where Staccie Allen D.N.P., APRN, EMT-P, CFRN, C.C.P., and Jesse Blaire, EMT-P, C.C.P., were able to give a patient one unit of blood to help stabilize…

ShandsCair is Hiring

Join the UF Health ShandsCair Team and view our open positions here. Search keyword “ShandsCair.”…

Introducing ShandsCair 5

UF Health ShandsCair is proud to introduce the newest member in our fleet: ShandsCair 5 stationed in Panama City, FL  …

Spicer Family

Mother of two, Sherri, younger sister Delaney and Savannah Spicer, better known by their friends and family as the “Spice Girls,” share an unbreakable bond. On Aug. 23, 2014, Savannah, 19 at the time, bid farewell to her mother and younger sister in Orlando,…

The Arnette Family

Each day, Christina Arnette slides onto her finger a silver ring of the infinity symbol intertwined with a heartbeat. Stephanie Howard, R.N., a cardiac ICU nurse at UF Health, wears the same exact symbol. Both complete strangers to one another until a life-changing event brought them together. Christina…

A miracle for Micah

Each November, millions of Americans give thanks for family, friends, football and a feast on Thanksgiving. But for some families, like the Bowmans, this time of year means so much more On Nov. 6, 2013, Frank and Gini Bowman of Ocala welcomed their first child, Micah. The day after his…