Category: Health

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…

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 is honored to announce the hospital has been recognized with a 2024 Patient Safety Excellence Award™ from Healthgrades, a comprehensive database…

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…

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…

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…

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….

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…

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…

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…

Baptist Health Care announced it has invested $10 million in a second combined emergency room and urgent care location at its Baptist Medical Park–Nine Mile,…

This Saturday marks the five-year anniversary of Parkrun on the University of West Florida’s Pensacola campus. Every Saturday morning, parkrunners gather to walk, jog, run…

Yesterday, several friends sent me a link to a viewpoint posted on FloridaPolitics.com that criticized Baptist Health Care for “executing a masterclass in dodging fiscal…

From The News Service of Florida: Data posted online by the state Department of Health showed that 725 Florida resident deaths had been linked to…

A Community Health Northwest Florida resident is a recipient of a $5,000 highly competitive research grant that will be used to help patients in underserved…

According to the American Lung Association’s 22nd annual “State of Tobacco Control” report, released today, Alabama continues to lag behind the rest of the country…

Two sources have shared a flyer that popped up in elevators in the new Baptist Hospital. The flyers call for a Baptist Compensation Rally on…

A reported 92,553 Florida resident deaths have been linked to COVID-19 since the pandemic started in 2020, including 8,070 this year, according to data posted…

The community is divided over the Escambia Children’s Trust, especially since last Tuesday’s program committee workshop regarding the Out-of-School Time grants. Other nonprofits have questioned…

By the Numbers: County COVID-19 Deaths ©2023 The News Service of Florida State numbers show that a reported 7,441 Florida resident deaths this year have…