Category: Health

Lee County government held a press conference yesterday  to reassure the public that they have plans to contain the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus. The news conference…

BY Christine Sexton TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday declared a state of emergency that would broaden his powers to respond to the novel…

On its Coronavirus Flyer, the Escambia County administration listed among its action steps: “The Escambia County Pandemic Influenza Emergency Plan will be followed if needed.”…

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) tweeted today that he is among the Republicans in self-quarantine after learning that he came into contact with someone who tested…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 9, 2020 TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Department of Health is responding to COVID-19. In an effort to keep Florida residents and…

BY Dara Kam and Jim Saunders, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — As the stock marketed plummeted Monday, House Speaker Jose Oliva, R-Miami Lakes,…

Last Friday morning, Inweekly caught up with Baptist Health Care CEO Mark Faulkner, who explained the testing process for the coronavirus. At the time, Baptist…

Pensacola was in the national news this weekend, but not in a positive way. As media outlets upped their coverage of the coronavirus, the newscasts…

Santa Rosa County now has a coronavirus case. Good thing, Escambia County posted its flyer before midnight. Still no email from Escambia County Communications and…

Escambia County posted the information below on its website yesterday. A flyer was posted on county’s Facebook page around 11 p.m. Wednesday, March 4. Strangely,…

PENSACOLA, Fla. — Ascension Sacred Heart has completed construction of a new Rehabilitation Center in Pensacola that will provide the latest technology and techniques for…

Escambia County has been eerily silent about the coronavirus, other than a lame joke by County Administrator Janice Gilley about Commissioner Robert Bender’s trip to…

By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The meeting was mostly about community health. But it was actually about a lot more—almost everything else. “We have to look…

By Dara Kam TALLAHASSEE — State health officials have filed complaints against two medical-marijuana doctors based on information obtained by undercover investigators posing as patients, in…

Press release: Baptist Health Care achieved another milestone in the journey to build the community’s new full-scale health campus that will be located at the…

Press Release: Lakeview Center, an affiliate of Baptist Health Care, has joined the Hazelden Betty Ford Patient Care Network in a collaboration that will expand…

AHCA has published the need for adult, children and adolescent psychiatric beds as well as adult substance abuse beds for July 2025. The agency says…

By Dara Kam TALLAHASSEE — As state lawmakers ponder how — and if — to respond to teens’ skyrocketing use of electronic cigarettes, one university…

To support the efforts of Studer Family Children’s Hospital at Ascension Sacred Heart to serve children from across the Gulf Coast region, especially kids living…

The Studer Family Children’s Hospital at Ascension Sacred Heart is launching a $19 million project to build a new pediatric intensive care unit and new…