The right fit

There’s a new way to stay active and healthy in Port St. Lucie: the Fitness Parks Pass. Beginning Nov. 1 and running through the end of April, the city government’s goal is to provide seasonal, affordable outdoor classes, in local parks, encouraging wellness and fostering community connections.

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Treasure Coast High School’s LPN students are recognizable by their professional uniforms — and their ability to pronounce the word sphygmomanometer [blood pressure monitor]. RUSTY DURHAM

Medical first

This year’s homecoming at Treasure Coast High School in Port St. Lucie was especially significant: It was the 20th anniversary of the Titans. However, not everyone on campus noticed. Misha Fenelus is a junior at TCHS and a second-year student in the school’s inaugural licensed practical nurse [LPN] program — the first of its kind in Florida.

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Patients who qualify for Cleveland Clinic’s Hospital Care at Home program enjoy the same professional care, with the added comforts of home.

HOME REMEDY

Your elderly parent is in the hospital—anxious, alone. Medical personnel come and go. When you visit, you can’t stay long because of children at home. You wish you could do more.

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With new medications, technology and treatments, men with various health issues can still enjoy productive lives and intimacy. RUSTY DURHAM

Mr T.

Three hundred local men are experiencing greater quality of life today because of Elevate Men America, a Port St. Lucie clinic specializing in men’s health. In operation just over a year, there are already plans to expand.

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Dr. Jeffrey Glickman, top nephrologist at Cleveland Clinic Martin Health in Stuart, enjoys keeping his patients healthy and helping them understand the symptoms of kidney disease. He especially stresses to them the importance of healthy kidney function. RUSTY DURHAM PHOTOS

In his blood

Dr. Jeffrey Glickman, who heads up the nephrology department at Cleveland Clinic Martin Health, is passionate about instructing his patients on keeping healthy and knowing the symptoms to prevent kidney disease. He educates on why kidneys are important and why we cannot live without them.

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Dr. Alan Durkin is shaping the future of aesthetics at the expansive, elegant building that houses Ocean Drive Plastic Surgery, Ocean Drive Dermatology and Ocean Drive Med Spa in Vero Beach. KERRY FIRTH

Uplifting odyssey

Dr. Alan Durkin didn’t take a direct path to becoming a successful plastic surgeon. He excelled at math and science as a child, graduated magna cum laude with a degree in biology and landed his first job as deputy director of nuclear waste disposal in Illinois.

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The Florida Research and Innovation Center research cancer and infectious diseases while working in concert with Cleveland Clinic’s five hospitals and the Lerner Research Institute. FRIC scientific director Dr. Michaela Gack [right] oversees researchers seeking quick cures to some of today’s most pressing medical issues. CLEVELAND CLINIC PHOTOS

Cure Hunters

The advantages of having Cleveland Clinic in our backyard are nothing to sneeze at. With locations in Port St. Lucie, Stuart and Vero Beach, Cleveland Clinic is one of this country’s top-rated academic medical centers.

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Sleep Disorders billing office manager Traci Alves, left, and office assistant Felicia Sofikitis, right, displaying two types of sleep masks in their Stuart lab. WHITNEY JOSEPH

Sleep dreams

Night after night, millions of people toss and turn, unable to fall asleep — much less stay asleep.

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