Category: Health
Alabama struggles with tobacco
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…
Daily Outtakes: Baptist rebellion?
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…
Covid deaths continue to climb
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…
Daily Outtakes: How to better spend $5 million
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…
Over 100 Covid deaths in Escambia this year
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…
Daily Outtakes: Baptist bailout might hit snag
Tallahassee insiders have shared that Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves’ effort to get the state to help bailout Baptist Hospital by putting up $18 million to…
Podcast: Ascension and UWF tackle nursing shortage
Ascension Sacred Heart and the University of West Florida will begin a strategic initiative that allows 16 upper-level Bachelor of Science in Nursing students to…
Daily Outtakes: Chaos, Reimagining, More Nurses
Congressional Chaos Congress passed an emergency funding bill to avoid a federal government shutdown. Our congressman, Matt Gaetz, announced that he is filing a motion…
Escambia County ranks in lowest percentile in health rankings
Achieve Healthy Escambia continues to fail to improve health outcomes. The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute’s County Health Rankings & Roadmaps ranked Escambia County…
Presser Takeaways: Recycling, Bluffs and Baptist
At his weekly press conference this morning, Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves said the UWF Haas Center has 1,556 eligible responses to its residents satisfaction survey…
Outtakes: Parting the Curtain
The Friday meal at Baptist Hospital began as a simple idea. Let’s bring together the Black women who lived, worked, and raised their families with…
Daily Outtakes: Unhappy Baptist workers and judges
According to the website Glassdoor.com, less than half of the Baptist Hospital employees who posted reviews said they would not recommend working at the hospital…
Baptist Hospital ‘open’ to caring for former neighborhood
On WCOA this morning, Escambia County Commissioner Chairman Lumon May said the Baptist Hospital leaders are open to offering medical services at its old campus…
Daily Outtakes: Romney bowing out
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) has told the Washington Post and The New York Times that he will not seek a second Senate term. In a…
Escambia Children’s Trust keeps handing out money
By Tom St. Myer With a dwindling staff and a strategic plan yet to be finalized, the Escambia Children’s Trust board still awarded over $2…
Daily Outtakes: Mental Health Confusion
State Rep. Michelle Salzman is reconvening the Mental Health Task Force of Northwest Florida this afternoon. Why? “…specifically for brainstorming, designing and planning for a…
Real News podcasts for Monday, Sept. 11
Peter Steenblik previews the 2023-24 season of the Choral Society of Pensacola. Levin Papantonio Rafferty attorney Jeff Gaddy discusses the $1.4 billion settlement in the…
Who paid for Mental Health Strategic Plan? (Update)
For more than six months, Inweekly has tried to find out how much did Ernst Young’s Mental Health Strategic Plan and Roadmap cost and who…
Daily Outtakes: What did Baptist promise? What did Community ask for?
Baptist Hospital will not provide any medical services at its E Street campus after it moves on Saturday, Sept. 23, even though 80% of the…
Daily Outtakes: Would you build a clinic here?
Last week, Inweekly learned Baptist would not leave medical services at the old inner-city campus after it moves on Saturday, Sept. 23. The hospital expected…
