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The recently hired dean, Laura Jean Fero, 54 of Apopka, faces charges related to her previous position in Minnesota.
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Dr. Nisha Verma says in the nearly two years since Georgia's six-week abortion ban went into effect, she's seen patients suffer and some colleagues leave the state. She fears the same thing will happen in Florida.
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People with disabilities say they are abruptly losing their Medicaid home health benefits and are being advised incorrectly when they call state offices for more information.
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The health system says it is making progress restoring its network. Meantime, the chain's Florida facilities are seeing patients, although delays should be expected due to the transition to paper records.
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Gov. DeSantis and many other Republican leaders across the country have made a priority in recent years of trying to restrict treatments for transgender people with gender dysphoria.
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Researchers looked at workers' comp claims in 24 states and found that excessive temperatures increased the frequency of injuries, with risks in the South particularly higher.
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Although Florida's Amendment 4 doesn’t define "health care provider," legal experts said it would not allow people who aren’t licensed to provide health care to determine whether a patient qualifies for a health risk exception.
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The U.S. is one of nine countries that do not guarantee paid sick leave. Since the pandemic, advocates are organizing to take the issue to voters in several states with ballot initiatives this November.
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Many older adults who need hospital care are getting stuck in ER limbo — sometimes over a day. The long waits for seniors who are frail, with multiple medical issues, lead to a host of additional medical problems.
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Since Florida enacted a six-week abortion ban, clinics in several other Southern and mid-Atlantic states have sprung into action. They know women impacted by the change will look to them for services no longer available in Florida.
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A new financial report indicates that the funds gained an additional five years over the previous estimate for when they will run out of money, but the overall outlook for the programs remain grim.
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The city hasn’t given all those benefits to Joey Davis, president of the Tallahassee firefighter’s union and a cancer survivor.
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Ascension, which runs hospitals and clinics in North Florida, is investigating whether patient data was affected. Meantime, electronic health records are down and "nonemergent" procedures are postponed.
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In response to the report, a DCF official says the state's outreach strategy went "above and beyond" federal requirements and "any notion that Florida has failed in this process is false."