April 20, 2024
Healthcare
It's easier to greenlight hospitals, but new building lags
Florida removed a regulatory dam known as a certificate of need that blocked new hospitals.
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Published on 3/29/2021
Florida's opioid crisis has intensified amid the pandemic
As attention turned to the pandemic early last year, the opioid crisis largely fell out of the news. But it didn't go away. In fact, it has grown worse.
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Published on 3/29/2021
Florida hospitals face a cash crunch from COVID
During the first week of March in 2020, Sarasota Memorial Hospital was treating a record number of patients...
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Published on 3/29/2021
UF Health Cancer Center chosen PanCAN trial
Precision Promise is innovative in two ways, says Dr. Thomas George, director of the GI oncology...
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Published on 3/1/2021
Effects of coronavirus on the heart still aren't fully known
Along with all the other unknowns about the coronavirus is whether it has long-term effects on the heart.
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Published on 1/27/2021
Portable organ care system revives hearts, enables more transplants
George Martin's heart began failing in 2012, after he caught the swine flu.
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Published on 1/27/2021
Ascension St. Vincent's Riverside chosen for Watchman FLX clinical trial
Dr. Saumil Oza says the risk of stroke increases 500% for patients with afib.
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Published on 1/27/2021
Scripps Research Florida's promising approach
Targeted anti-cancer treatments — instead of dousing the body with chemo with all its side effects — have been a boon for some patients.
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Published on 12/30/2020
Cancer care around the state
Inspired by his mother, who survived breast cancer, clothing designer Galen Magee has been donating about 20 specially designed robes...
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Published on 12/30/2020
A side of seaweed?
While seaweed is a popular food in Asia and the Pacific Islands, it's not exactly a staple in the United States — but that could change.
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Published on 12/30/2020
Colorectal cancer screening options
An at-home test offers an alternative for some who are skittish about a colonoscopy
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Published on 12/30/2020
Florida Poly launches state's first undergraduate health engineering program
Students with a love of STEM and an interest in health care can prepare for a career that prioritizes both with Florida Polytechnic University's new Health Systems Engineering program
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Published on 12/1/2020
Bayfront Hospital's new owner and president
Under the majority ownership of Tennessee-based Community Health Systems over the last six years, St. Petersburg's Bayfront Hospital saw layoffs...
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Published on 11/25/2020
Historic investment in Baptist Health Care campus
The 50-acre site, the largest single investment in a life sciences facility in Northwest Florida history, is central to Pensacola's growing metro area and located along the I-110 corridor.
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Published on 11/25/2020
Publix opened13th in-hospital pharmacy in Florida
Publix in September opened its 13th in-hospital pharmacy in Florida with a branch in the Anderson Family Cancer Institute at Jupiter Medical Center in Jupiter.
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Published on 11/25/2020
Orlando Health, Advent Health step up investments in orthopedics
With a projected surge in joint replacements and other orthopedic surgeries among aging Baby Boomers over the next decade...
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Published on 11/25/2020
Advancements in COVID treatment
Miami-based Jackson Health System has opened a portable triage unit to isolate and treat COVID-19 patients.
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Published on 11/25/2020
Northeast Florida Hospital Boom
St. Johns County, the fastest-growing in Northeast Florida, has seen its population increase by nearly 40% to an estimated 264,672.
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Published on 11/25/2020
FSU Panama City will begin offering a doctorate in nurse anesthesia
Pending approval by the national Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs, which will conduct its review in January.
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Published on 10/28/2020
COVID-19 has brought more students into Florida nursing programs
Nova Southeastern and FAU are among the Southeast Florida institutions reporting stable or increasing headcount in their nursing programs.
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Published on 10/28/2020
Jacksonville University takes a community approach to its nursing simulation program
With a mission to reduce medical errors, Jacksonville University has opened its nursing simulation facility to the Northeast Florida medical community.
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Published on 10/28/2020
FIU launches sexual assault survivors forensic exams program for nurses
FIU's new program teaches nurses how to collect DNA evidence, tend to patients' physical and emotional needs and become expert witnesses...
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Published on 10/28/2020
Florida nurse Ashley DeShields call to duty
From the time she was a child, Ashley DeShields had a vague sense that she would choose a profession that would enable her to help people...
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Published on 10/28/2020
Former UCF nursing students research improving COVID-19 patients oxygen levels
The pandemic has highlighted the research of two former UCF nursing students on prone-positioning ...
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Published on 10/28/2020
How Florida's long-term care facilities are managing the COVID-19 virus
Most long-term care facilities have had no COVID-19-related fatalities during the pandemic. But when the virus gets into a facility, the results could be disastrous.
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Published on 8/26/2020
