Category: Health

Through a public record request submitted by our attorney Eric Stevenson, Inweekly has learned the infected nursing home reported in the SitReps for April 3-6…

Inweekly requested every SitRep (situation report) created by the Escambia Emergency Operations Center since it was activated on March 17–a total of 38 reports. The…

Escambia County cases in long-term care facilities continue to grow – now 43, up 4 since last night.   The LTC  cases make half of…

Nursing Home Visitation Ban The News Service of Florida: Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration was caught by surprise Tuesday to learn that a 30-day executive order…

Escambia County now has 48 positive COVID-19 cases among residents and staff at local long-term care facilities – up 40 from last Tuesday, April 7….

Escambia County had its fourth death today – one of 47 people who died since 11 a.m.  in Broward, Dade, Duval, Hillsborough, Lee, Manatee, Orange, Palm…

Inweekly reported this morning that Governor Ron DeSantis has created 10 four-man teams to ramp up testing in the long-term care facilities. Most will be…

I’m a numbers guy so I began to dig a little deeper into the statistics that the Florida Department of Health as provided us. In…

The number of new cases statewide slowed over the past 24 hours – only 766. The new total is 21,367.  However deaths jumped by 54…

At his press briefing on Monday, Gov. Ron DeSantis said the state would step up its support of long-term care facilities infected with the COVID-19…

According to the Monday evening report from the Florida Department of Health, Escambia County now has 39 positive COVID-19 cases in local long-term care facilities…

Escambia County and the City of Pensacola, in partnership with the UWF Small Business Development Center, FloridaWest EDA and the Greater Pensacola Chamber, have created…

Doctors, nurses, EMTs, paramedics and other frontline medical staff on the gulf coast will be provided a hotel stay free of charge at Innisfree’s properties…

By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson said Monday that he thinks the local senior care facility that has experienced a number of COVID-19…

Despite news reports that a Live Oak official named the COVID-19 long-term care facility infected in his community and received help from the state,  County…

Escambia County picked up 11 more cases since 6 p.m. Sunday – total 235.  The state now as 20,601 cases and 470 deaths. While Florida’s…

Michael Lowery, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1395, has asked Escambia County Commission chairman Steve Barry for an investigation of COVID-19 employee safety and…

Santa Rosa County had another COVID-19 related death, bringing the total to 4. Escambia County yesterday an increase of 14 positive cases, total 224 and…

After Escambia County deemed its more detailed COVID-19 reports (SITREP) were no longer exempt from public records law, Inweekly has learned the EOC stopped doing…

After pressure from NorthEscambia.com, News Journal, Inweekly and the public, Escambia County Administrator Janice Gilley agreed to release the more detailed SITREP –which she had…