The Key West City Commission last night paid tribute to retiring cardiovascular specialist Dr. Bruce Boros for his extensive service to the community by naming June 6th as Dr. Bruce Boros Day.

Throughout his 32-year career, Dr. Boros has cared for the community with all his heart. In the early 1980s, in conjunction with the American Heart Association, he resurrected and formed the local Lower Keys Heart Council which dedicated all funds to local needs, particularly to those families with children who needed financial assistance for their children to get care in Miami.

He started the first cardiac nuclear laboratory in Key West that would conduct stress tests with cardiac imaging, and established the basis for helicopter transport of critical cardiac patients from the local hospital to Miami.

In 2003, he was able to form is own Cardiovascular Center of Excellence in Key West, and in 2010 began a successful attempt at establishing the current Advanced Urgent Care which has become invaluable to the community.

“Today Dr. Bruce Boros will enter retirement,” reads the proclamation, “after serving the citizens of Key West for several decades in providing quality care, saving thousands of lives, and having a genuine love for our island community by caring for its people.”

“I am backing off cardiovascular,” said Dr. Boros, “but I have great intentions to continue all my efforts of myself, my team, my wife to continue to help the community… Key West is in my veins and in my arteries.”