This week, Inweekly delves deeper into mental health care, not just locally but statewide. Escambia County isn’t the only county trying to figure how to improve mental health care. Our story goes…
Category: Health
Podcast: Drug abuse among local teens
Last October, Stephanie Shepard lost her son, age 18, to a drug overdose. Since then, she has formed a nonprofit Hope Above Fear to establish a youth inpatient rehab in Escambia County. …
Mobile, Ala. has lowest life expectancy
According to MoneyGeek, life expectancy at birth in the United States has experienced a significant decline in recent years, dropping from 77 to 76.1 from 2020 to 2021, the lowest level since…
DeSantis targets prescription drug ‘middlemen’
By Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Calling for “long overdue reforms,” Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday outlined proposed legislation that would target pharmacy benefit managers to try to…
Santa Rosa Education Foundation receives grant
Santa Rosa Education Foundation, a local nonprofit that supports education in Santa Rosa School District, today announced it has received a grant for $15,000 as part of a two-year $500,000 grant from the Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation…
Mental Task Force has surprise meeting
Press Release: The Mental Health Task Force of Northwest Florida is diving into the details this quarter. Through the collaborative work of the Task Force, a contract has been made with Ernst…
Trust needs to focus on 32505 zip code
The Escambia Children’s Trust meets today to interview 29 providers about their proposals for out-of-school-time programs. While the Trust staff produced a Needs Assessment, it failed to list the neighborhoods it should…
Escambia Children’s Trust gives BCC annual report
The Escambia Children’s Trust staff has delivered to the Board of County Commissioners its annual report for 2022. The annual report must include the following: A) Information on the effectiveness of activities,…
Children’s Trust reboots grant reviews
The Escambia Children’s Trust will conduct interviews with the top 29 ranked proposers for its Out-of-School-Time RFP. The first is 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 4 at its offices on Pensacola State…
Stakeholders collaborating to avoid Baker Act crisis
By Tom St. Myer Efforts to circumvent a looming mental health treatment crisis in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties are trending in the right direction after months of collaboration among stakeholders. An…
Cities, Counties File Suits Over Opioid Epidemic
By Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Local governments in Northwest Florida and Miami-Dade County have filed lawsuits seeking damages from the global consulting firm McKinsey & Company over…
Operation Santa
More than 1,400 children in the child welfare system from Escambia to Walton County will experience the magic of Christmas thanks to the support of donors to Operation Santa. Organized through FamiliesFirst…
Baptist bonds get BBB rating
Fitch Ratings has affirmed Baptist Health Care Corporation’s (BHCC) Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at ‘BBB’ and the ratings on approximately $610 million series 2020 A & B revenue bonds issued by Escambia…
COVID-19 vax saved 3.25 million American lives and $1.5 trillion in medical bills.
According to a new modeling study by the Commonwealth Fund, without COVID-19 vaccines, the US would have seen four times more deaths from the pandemic virus—an additional 3 million lives lost—as well…
ECT executive director lists accomplishments and challenges
As part of her recent evaluation, Escambia Children’s Trust executive director Tammy Greer listed her accomplishments and challenges. Under her accomplishments, she listed regular work items such as reviewing prior board minutes,…
School immunization slide
By Ryan Dailey, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Last school year marked a more than 10-year low for Florida’s kindergarten and seventh-grade students completing all doses of required immunizations, according…
Community Tailgate Party
As part of its 30th-anniversary celebration, Community Health Northwest Florida is hosting a tailgate party from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 3. Themed around College Football Conference Championship Saturday,…
Dr. Amit and Shruti Gupta Donate to Baptist Health Care Foundation
Amit Gupta, M.D., his wife, Shruti, and their family have made a major gift to support the new Baptist Hospital campus, scheduled to open fall 2023. The Foundation will name the diagnostic…
Podcast: HCA Florida West Hospital gets an ‘A’
HCA Florida West Hospital received an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group. This national distinction celebrates HCA Florida West Hospital’s achievements in protecting hospital patients from preventable harm and errors….
Update: Baptist Hospital campus
As part of the new Baptist Hospital campus, the Bear Family Foundation Health Center is just one of the ways we are increasing easy access to a wide array of health care…
