Category: Health
Healthcare Heroes
The Escambia County Medical Society Foundation (ECMS-Foundation) is proud to announce its inaugural Health Excellence Awards, set to take place on October 10th, 2024 at…
Short Film: It’s Clinical
It’s Clinical, a short film dedicated to raising mental health awareness, premieres at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2024, at the 850 Event Center,…
Ascension Sacred Heart now FL Level I Trauma Center
Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola is now the only hospital in the Panhandle to offer Level I trauma care after achieving the standards required by the…
Escambia Schools seek input on wellness initiatives
Escambia County Public Schools is reviewing its wellness initiatives and is looking for input from district staff members, as well as members of our community….
Ascension Sacred Heart among top 15 nationwide
Fortune and PINC AI named Ascension Sacred Heart among the nation’s top 15 health systems for 2024, marking the first time it has made the…
Health and Hope Clinic building a new wing
Health and Hope Clinic will host a groundbreaking ceremony for its new Health and Wellness Wing at 11 a.m. on Friday, June 21, at 1718…
More on Healthy Schools Escambia…tomorrow
Press Release: Escambia Children’s Trust is excited to announce the launch of the Invitation to Bid (ITB) for the Healthy Schools Escambia initiative, available on…
Daily Outtakes: Community Health launches foundation
Community Health Northwest Florida (formerly Escambia Community Clinics Inc.), a leading Federally Qualified Health Center committed to making affordable healthcare accessible for everyone, announced the…
Revive Awareness Day – June 6
The Florida Department of Health in Escambia County invites the public to attend this year’s Revive Awareness Day event to learn more about how to…
CivicCon tackles low-barrier shelters tonight
CivicCon will host Jon DeCarmine, founder of GRACE Marketplace, at the Wesley Abbey building of First United Methodist Church (2 E Wright) on Monday, May…
Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola earns ‘A’
Sacred Heart Pensacola earned an ‘A’ spring 2024 Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, an independent national watchdog organization that grades almost 3,000 general…
Measles are back
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the world’s largest HIV/AIDS organization, is calling on public health officials to provide more education and prevention services around vaccinations as…
HCA Florida West Hospital: 2024 Patient Safety Excellence Award
HCA Florida West Hospital is honored to announce the hospital has been recognized with a 2024 Patient Safety Excellence Award™ from Healthgrades, a comprehensive database…
Infant mortality a statewide issue
In the April 4 issue, I wrote about Escambia County’s high infant mortality rate. For counties with at least 3,000 births annually, we have the…
Baker Act Central Receiving Facility set to open April 15
People facing mental health crises will soon have an easily accessible, new Central Receiving Facility (CRF) that will open this month at Lakeview Center’s main…
Daily Outtakes: Infant dies every 12 days
The Sun Sentinel has begun a series that looks at Florida’s high infant mortality rate – “Born to Die.” Over the past decade, Escambia County…
Real News: Community Health deals with 304B attacks
Attacks on the 304B Drug Pricing Program have given Big Pharma and others cover to not pass along mandated savings to Community Health Northwest Florida….
Hurt! app connects you to help 24/7
North Florida Bone & Joint Specialists (NFBJS) has partnered with the Hurt! smartphone app to offer patients with acute orthopaedic injuries 24/7 access to orthopaedic…
Alabama ruling impacts Pensacola women
Last month, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that couples who tried in vitro fertilization (IVF) and lost frozen embryos in an accident at a facility…
Daily Outtakes: More ready fo kindergarten
Yesterday, the Florida Department of Education released the Kindergarten Readiness scores for this past fall. Escambia County increased by 4.5%, with 49.5% of the incoming…
