Hospitals

Uninsured patients made up about 25% of the 20,000+ inpatient gunshot hospitalizations in the state from 2018 to 2024, an analysis found. They also had shorter hospital stays than those with any form of coverage.

Lakeland Regional becomes the 12th Level I center designated by the Department of Health. The hospital, which cares for more than 4,400 patients annually, has been a provisional Level I facility since May 2025.

The judge had sided with five Tenet-owned South Florida hospitals, ruling Leapfrog could no longer automatically assign the lowest scores to facilities that declined to participate in voluntary surveys.

The administration argues the lack of disclosure is keeping healthcare costs higher than they should be. Failing to comply with the warnings comes with penalties as high as $2 million a year.

A woman started exhibiting unusual memory problems – a disorder called transient global amnesia. Now recovered, a dispute over hospital charges has been a source of stress for over a year.

The funding, reported by Stat, flows through the state's Directed Payment Program and covers care delivered between Oct. 1, 2024, and Sept. 30, 2025.

The expanded biochemical genetics facility provides faster tunaround times for tests such as newborn screenings to help diagnose and monitor rare metabolic conditions.

AdventHealth Hospital for Children in Orlando reported that Black pediatric patients needed different kinds of shampoo to care for their hair. The hospital listened.

Of 191 particiapting state hospitals, 91 posted A's while the nonprofit watchdog adjusts its methodology for non-particpants to comply with a recent court ruling. Nationally, there was significant improvement in 17 measures of errors and infections.

Rovex has an office at St. Petersburg-based incubator spARK Labs by ARK Invest.

Florida regulators found Dr. Thomas Shaknovsky and other physicians failed to properly use diagnostic testing and delayed imaging that may have kept a patient alive, according to an NBC News report.

The Legislative Budget Commission authorizes a transfer of the money from the Medical Care Trust Fund to the Florida Rural Health Transformation Program, per a request from AHCA.