Small World Pediatrics Takes Care Of Your Kids From Diapers To Degrees

By Matt Wiley | September 14

For ten years now, Dr. JosĂ© JimĂ©nez has been the only phyisican at Small World Pediatrics, now located across BBD from Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel, in the Windguard Professional Center
For ten years now, Dr. JosĂ© JimĂ©nez has been the only phyisican at Small World Pediatrics, now located across BBD from Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel, in the Windguard Professional Center

Watching children develop from newborns to college scholars is a joy usually reserved for parents. However, José Jiménez, M.D., the one physician who has been seeing all of the patients at Small World Pediatrics (now located jut north of S.R. 56 in Wesley Chapel) for the past decade, has been right there with the parents in the New Tampa and Wesley Chapel area help those kids stay healthy as they have grown and matured from babies and young children into teenagers and young adults.

Now located (since 2010) in the Windguard Professional Center across Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd. from the new Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel (FHWC), Small World Pediatrics is a full-service pediatrics practice that cares for children from the time that they are born through their college years (usually to about age 21).

Among the services Dr. Jiménez provides are physical exams for school and sports, vaccinations for daycare, school and college entry, and treating a wide range of pediatric illnesses.

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Wharton To Host Annual Harvest Volleyball Tourney & Food Drive

By Matt Wiley | September 14

The Wharton Wildcats volleyball team has hosted & won each of the first two Harvest Tournaments.
The Wharton Wildcats volleyball team has hosted & won each of the first two Harvest Tournaments.

With the changing of the seasons comes the annual Harvest Volleyball Tournament at New Tampa’s Paul R. Wharton High, along with its accompanying food drive.

For the third consecutive year, Wharton High will welcome Brandon, Clearwater, Freedom, King, Riverview, Strawberry Crest and Wiregrass Ranch high schools to its Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd. campus to compete in the annual girls volleyball tournament on Friday-Saturday, September 20-21. But the battle won’t be completely on the court, as each team participating also is being challenged to collect the most donated canned and boxed food items. Wharton has won the tourney each of the first two years.

“(Wharton) started the Harvest Tournament for two reasons,” explains volleyball coach Eric Barber. “To provide a tournament in the north Tampa area that these schools could attend, as well as provide a way for high school volleyball programs to directly impact their communities in a positive way.”

Barber says that the schools that he thinks will pose the biggest threat to Wharton’s “three-peat” are Wiregrass Ranch, Clearwater, and New Tampa rival Freedom. However, Barber adds that he thinks that Wharton still might have an advantage over the competition.

“We have been fortunate to win the last two, so I think a certain level of confidence comes with that,” Barber explains. “We are also working on being more diverse in our offense this year.”

Anyone planning to attend the tournament who is interested in donating cans/boxes of food is encouraged to do so, as a box will be set up in front of the gym for any donations. Wharton would like to send a big “Thank You” to the event’s sponsors: Marco’s Pizza, Bagels Plus, Dunkin’ Donuts, Rent King and RPM Physical Therapy.

Sun Laboratory Services Opens Diagnostic Center In Wesley Chapel

By Bonnie Mason | September 14

Roger Briggs, CEO of Sun Laboratory Services
Roger Briggs, CEO of Sun Laboratory Services

Roger Briggs, the chief executive officer (CEO) and co-founder of Sun Laboratory Services, Inc. (which has a location in Wesley Chapel), stands by his mission to “deliver a level of patient service other laboratories are either unwilling or unable to provide.”

Briggs says that both Sun Labs’ new diagnostic center, located across Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd. from Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel (FHWC), as well as the original location in Sun City Center, offer convenience and customer-centered care that other labs often don’t.

The main laboratory opened in Sun City in 2005 and grew from about 1,000 square feet to a 15,000-sq.-ft. facility.

“We went from serving a few local clients to more than 300, in addition to the individual patients who use our two diagnostic centers daily for their prescribed lab tests,” says Briggs.

Sun Laboratory Services is a full-service clinical laboratory that partners with businesses and organizations to provide onsite phlebotomy services (phlebotomy is the act of drawing or removing blood in order to obtain a sample for analysis and diagnosis) and lab results. Sun Laboratory-trained technicians visit hundreds of assisted living and skilled nursing Continue reading

Cellmasters Will Put The World In Your Palm With T-Mobile Phones & More!

Alex Hamed (left) and Joe Dimian will help put the right phone with the right plan in your hand.
Alex Hamed (left) and Joe Dimian will help put the right phone with the right plan in your hand.

By Matt Wiley | September 14

In our current technological age, it’s easy to forget that the computers many of us carry in our hands actually are what were once referred to as “telephones.” With the ongoing addition of more technology and services that these “Smartphones” are capable of offering, it’s good that there is a place in New Tampa to find the phone and the wireless service that meets your needs.

Consider Cellmasters, Inc., a new, independendtly owned T-Mobile store that opened in June of this year in the New Tampa Center shopping plaza on Bruce B. Downs (BBD) Blvd. at Cross Creek/New Tampa Blvd. Inside, a myriad of the latest in phone technology and accessories line the showroom walls. It is here that owner Alex Hamed, a Cross Creek resident, and store manager Joe Dimian, who lives in West Meadows, fit customers with the plans and phones that best suit their lifestyles. Whether it is a contract plan with an expensive phone or a cheaper phone with a prepaid plan, Cellmasters has something for you and your family.

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Nibbles & Bytes: Mobile Meals, Energia, Wiregrass Financial, City Grill, Skinny's and Totalscape!

By Gary Nager | September 14

Mobile Meals Delivers!

Mobile MealsAlthough some local restaurants offer their own delivery services, Mobile Meals has been providing deliveries for multiple restaurants in and around the Wesley Chapel area for several years now and currently offers on-line and phone ordering with delivery within 30-60 minutes of your order, for such local favorites as The Little Greek, Mulligan’s Irish Pub, TGI Friday’s and Beef O’Brady’s, as well as nearby Wesley Chapel favorites such as Cantina Laredo, Texas Roadhouse 900Âș Woodfired Pizza, Yamato Japanese Steakhouse and others.

To find out how the service works or to place an order, visit MobileMeals.com or call 907-MEAL (6325).

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