Hospitals

The 340,000-square-foot Baptist Health Sunrise Hospital will be the system’s first hospital in Broward.

Joy, Ascension Sacred Heart in Pensacola's new facility dog, has been working since late November to help comfort patients and their families experiencing traumatic injuries.

National recognition points to evidence-based care, newborn support and keeping high-quality maternity services close to home.

The agreement will have FSU pay the city $109 million across 30 years for Tallahassee Memorial Hospital's property and assets. The school will also commit $250 million to various upgrades.

The largest slice is a $277.5 million package for cancer research, along with investments in emergency medical innovation and public health infrastructure.

The goal of the rankings, in their fifth year, is to help expectant parents make informed decisions in consultation with their prenatal care providers.

Unionized nurses at three South Florida hospitals rallied outside Palmetto General Hospital in Hialeah on Friday morning for a new three-year contract, demanding more pay and better patient safety.

TGH will pay $10 a month over 49 years with a committment to invest at least $49 million in the struggling rural hospital. The DeSoto board opted for TGH's offer over two others.

FSU, TMH and Grow Tallahassee rejected rumors of a hospital taxing district, saying their academic medical center plan requires no new taxes as negotiations continue.

Private equity firms deploy large pools of debt to buy privately held companies or to take public companies private. Their eventual goal is to sell those assets at a profit.

Those two systems were first and third, respectively, in the nonprofit's biannual top 10, and reflected a national trend of excellence by larger hospital chains.

The lawsuit filed by five Tenet hospitals accuses Leapfrog of publishing rankings with a “rigged” methodology and pressuring hospitals to pay for memberships, which the nonprofit denies. Both sides seek summary judgment.