Commissioner Lumon May shares his frustrations with Baptist officials and the Escambia Children’s Trust.
A remarkable interview with ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman. For nearly two decades working for ABC News, Gutman lived with a secret. In “No Time to Panic,” the award-winning reporter opens up about his stop-at-nothing journey to find a remedy to halt his panic attacks in their tracks.
In his live broadcasts, viewers saw an unflappable and gregarious reporter, known for shaking off close scrapes with danger to get the critical scoop—surviving captivity under Venezuela’s secret police, anacondas in the Amazon, the eyes of literal hurricanes, and sniper fire abroad. What viewers didn’t see was Matt’s decades long grapple with panic attacks, hidden behind the façade of imperturbability he’d carefully constructed in their wake.
A January 2020 broadcast regarding the crash that killed Kobe Bryant caused this public persona to crumble. Mid-panic, Gutman would misstate the facts of a major story, leading to a month-long suspension, public shame, and overwhelming regret.
Gutman candidly shares his story.
At the presser, Mayor Reeves announced the Pensacola Fire Department and Escambia County Healthy Start have partnered to educate local families about unsafe infant sleep environments to reduce infant sleep mortality in the Pensacola community.
Escambia County has one of the state’s highest rates of infant deaths related to an unsafe sleep environment. In 2021, 30% of all infant deaths in Escambia County were such fatalities. Ninety percent of the deaths were outside a crib or bassinet, and 70% occurred while sleeping with others.
Healthy Start’s Direct On Scene Education (DOSE) safe sleep program trains first responders to identify unsafe sleep environments while responding to emergency and non-emergency calls. Healthy Start executive director Allyson Anderson has the details.
Author Jeff Atwood is coming to Bodacious Books this weekend from 10 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 16. He is author of the popular Need to Know series.
The disastrous Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023 – it gets better after a rocky start: Todd Thomson, Jeff Atwood, Allyson Anderson, Lumon May, and Matt Gutman.
Baptist Debacle: At one point into her presentation to the city council on May 23, 2022, Jenny Grover doubled down on Baptist’s commitment saying – “the third element is on us.” Baptist could have said nothing and walked away but it made a big promise that it did not keep. If the board did not know that, it should be asking for Mark Faulkner’s head. Perhaps the city can “de-annex” Baptist’s new property back out into the county! Of note, the Baptist Medical Park – Airport that opened in March 2017 is just 2.6 miles from the new campus. In March 2017, this is what Faulkner was quoted in the PNJ discussing the airport location: “Specifically with this location, we recognize that many of our patients live and work within 3 to 5 miles of this location.” The same would apply to the old campus area four miles away. A Baptist Medical Park should have been up and running there already. The city government should have demanded it. The PNJ continues: “As the clinic’s opening nears, Faulkner reiterated that in the past health care has not always incorporated access as the heart of its mission. But with consumers requesting that providers be more user-friendly, facilities must become more decentralized and nearer to patient’s homes and work. They must also provide a number of services under one roof. So that has led to this type of medical park environment, he said.” If Baptist is short money, perhaps the Escambia County Health Facilities Authority can help out.