UF Health Jacksonville

Nick Howland says he traveled to St. Petersburg on the private plane of team owner and Jacksonville developer Patrick Zalupski “to help raise funds for my political committee” and said “it will all be disclosed."

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.

Court-ordered medical procedures are just one of the ways pregnant patients’ rights are restricted. The effort is rooted in the concept of fetal personhood — that a fetus has equal and, in some cases, more rights than the woman sustaining it.

The expanded facility is named for former hospital CEO Leon L. Haley Jr., who died in 2021 in a personal watercraft accident.

Details of the insurance agreement is starting to come into focus for Northeast Florida patients. Meantime, an impasse remains in negotiations between United Healthcare and UF Health.

More facilities are partnering with private equity-backed firms to offer combined emergency and urgent care. But patients may not realize prices vary between the two services — often by a lot.

The bill would designate four behavioral health teaching hospitals linked to universities and provides them $100 million a year over the next three years.

The University of Florida health system is exploring ways to better engage Black adults in need of health care.

Patrick Green has served as executive vice president of Yale New Haven Health, Connecticut's largest health care system.

A year ago, the CDC awarded states and local health departments $2.25 billion to help people of color and other populations at higher risk from COVID. But a KHN review shows public health agencies across the country have been slow to spend it.

Dr. Leon L. Haley Jr. was lauded for his efforts in response to COVID-19. In December, he was the first person in Jacksonville to receive the Pfizer vaccine.

Chad Nielsen, director of Accreditation and Infection Prevention, says Floridians should follow CDC guidelines, contradicting a recent WHO recommendation that people continue to wear masks even if vaccinated.