Page 11 - Jupiter Spotlight - November '24

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Loggerhead Marinelife Center

Becomes First Sea Turtle Hospital

In South Florida To Install An On-Site CT Machine

Loggerhead Marinelife science officer at Loggerhead Marinelife Center. “The For more information on Loggerhead Marinelife
Center (LMC) has become CT machine allows us to make faster and more accurate Center and their rehabilitation efforts, visit marinelife.
the first sea turtle hospital diagnoses, leading to more effective treatment and better org/rehabilitation.
in South Florida to install outcomes for our patients.” Photos courtesy of Michael Albanese
an on-site, cutting-edge
computer tomography
(CT) machine. Generously
donated by The Cornelia T.
Bailey Foundation, the new
machine will significantly
increase LMC’s ability to
treat more sick and injured College Planning from page 10
sea turtles in an efficient
and less intrusive manner. Second, I offer comprehensive support and start
CT imaging is quickly working with your child as early as eighth grade.
becoming the standard of Although most begin in tenth or eleventh grade,
care for ill or injured sea starting early gives your child more time to complete
turtles, offering a level of my speed-reading course, take two SAT test prep
detail that cannot be seen classes, resume writing, college lists, tours, and step-
using other methods. CT by-step assistance in the application process. My
scans often produce 3-D renderings that can reveal lesions test prep course pinpoints where your child should
or tumors missed by radiographs or ultrasounds. This concentrate their efforts to increase their test scores.
information can be vital to creating an effective treatment Additionally, I guide your child in identifying and
plan for sick and injured sea turtles. applying for scholarship opportunities, maximizing
LMC’s Animal Care Center has a surgical suite, an their chances of reducing college costs.
upgraded X-ray room, a lab for blood work, an endoscope, Third, when students begin working with me in
and an ultrasound. Each year, hundreds of sea turtles are eighth or ninth grade, they learn to develop essential
examined and treated at the center. With the addition of the skills such as time management, goal setting, effective
new CT machine, Dr. Heather Barron, LMC’s chief science communication, and self-advocating. One-to-one
officer, will be able to successfully treat and release more sea college planning positions your child for a future full
turtles with fibropapillomatosis (FP). This highly contagious of opportunity.
virus causes the growth of benign, but obstructive tumors I am the owner of Class 101 College Planning
within and outside the sea turtle’s body, leading to death if North Palm Beach and offer a free consultation to
not removed. LMC is now one of only nine hospitals in the discuss your child’s college planning process. I can
state of Florida capable of treating FP patients. be reached at (561) 418-7897 or www.Class101.com/
“We are so grateful to the Bailey Foundation for northpalmbeachfl.
their generous support,” said Dr. Heather Barron, chief

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