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Your access to health care in Florida is changing. Here's …

WEBAdventHealth and Orlando Health have each committed $5 million in contributions towards the $70 million needed to break ground on the project in what is …

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Florida's strategy for tackling its top 5 health concerns

WEBFlorida health bosses have only told the public about 20% of hepatitis A cases in food services statewide, according to the state’s surgeon general – a stunning admission in the wake of a

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Florida health care providers adjust to largest U.S. drug …

WEBAccording to information from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, the United States is dealing with the most serious drug shortage it has …

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Floridians' health

WEBFlorida’s rank: 45th 24th. Healthy People 2020 goal For obesity is 30.6%. *Overweight is defined as having a body mass index of 25 or greater. Obese is defined as having a BMI of 30 or more

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Florida's health care system ranked 48th in the nation

WEBFlorida prisons to cut programs due to health care cost hike. Florida prisons are cutting mental health, substance abuse and re-entry programs to help make up for a $50 million shortfall in its

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500,000 Floridians could get free health insurance as …

WEBUF Health and Jax Spine & Pain Centers announced a Feb. 17 groundbreaking for a $25 million multispecialty surgery center and medical office …

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Florida's opioid crisis has intensified amid the pandemic

WEBBefore COVID-19, the most pressing public health concern facing Florida was opioid addiction — in 2019, an average of one person every five hours died of an opioid overdose in Florida, more than

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Florida's health system among the worst in the nation, …

WEBA new Commonwealth Fund analysis ranks Florida’s health system among the worst in the nation, finding, among other things, that the state spends $19 a person …

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Florida Hospital is first in nation to receive innovative …

WEBFlorida Hospital is a member of Adventist Health System, which operates 45 hospitals in 9 states, making it one of the largest not-for-profit healthcare systems in the …

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Florida Blue Announces New Health Insurance Solution to …

WEBTruli for Health is the trade name of BeHealthy Florida, Inc., and is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. About Florida Blue

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Experts urge Floridians to make long-term care plans before a …

WEBWith the climbing cost of long-term care and a shortage of health workers, experts say it's more important than ever for Floridians to make plans for aging. Orlando …

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Florida's hospital construction trend rises to meet population growth

WEBOn tap for 2024: A hospital that Jupiter Medical Center and UF Health plan to open. The dollar value of hospital construction in Florida was up 125% in the first …

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Florida Healthy Kids Board Approves New Health Plan Awards

WEBFlorida Healthy Kids members in the subsidized plan pay $15 or $20 per month based on household income, and currently, Florida Healthy Kids members in the …

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Florida's electronic medical records

WEBIn Florida, roughly a third of physicians were using electronic health records (EHRs) in 2008, and fewer than 20% of hospitals had even a basic EHR system in …

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Florida Hospital is now AdventHealth

WEBORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 2, 2019 — Florida Hospital facilities, as well as hundreds of physician practices, urgent-care centers and other medical sites across the country, officially …

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Florida's health care insurance exchange

WEBFlorida Health Choices will charge insurers a 2.5% fee for all premiums sold, less than the 3.5% fee the federal health insurance exchange will charge. Naff says this …

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Florida health care reforms facing challenges

WEBFlorida GOP lawmakers play key role in health care bill demise. A small but steadfast group of Florida Republicans helped scuttle their own party’s health care …

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Florida's population is growing faster than its physician workforce

WEBThe population under 18 is projected to grow about 18% between 2019 and 2035, while the number of Floridians who are 65 and over will grow by more than 50%. …

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AdventHealth announces details for new Riverview hospital

WEBTAMPA - MARCH 16, 2021. Leaders for AdventHealth West Florida Division have announced plans to build a 209,000 square foot, four-story hospital in Riverview, Florida. …

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UF Health St. Johns to host ribbon-cutting celebration for …

WEBUF Health St. Johns has taken a leading role to meet regional needs in Northeast Florida that has set a national standard. In the latest effort, UF Health St. …

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Orlando Health's spina bifida fetal surgery program is showing

WEBIn November 2018, Jessica Trinkle was nearly 24 weeks pregnant when she visited her OB-GYN in Volusia County and saw her unborn son Parker's face for the first …

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Filling the doctor gap will require a range of responses

WEBIndeed, 11,692 (17.7%) of physicians surveyed in the state’s 2021 physician workforce report are recent transplants — having relocated to Florida in the last five …

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