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Nurses at HCA hospital in Fort Walton Beach vote to unionize

Jennie McKeon

More than 65% of the nurses at HCA Florida Fort Walton Beach-Destin Hospital voted to join the National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United.
Health News Florida

Okaloosa County overdose treatment program shares successes after one year

Jennie McKeon

A year after Fort Walton Beach launched the POST program, Police Chief Robert Bage tells commissioners that Okaloosa is no longer among the top seven Florida counties for opioid deaths.

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