Category: Health
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…
PNJ print article on Baptist Hospital MIA from web (Update)
The Pensacola News Journal’s Sunday print edition has a front-page article on Black leaders’ concerns about what happens after Baptist Hospital moves from its E…
Baptist pulling medical care from E Street (Update)
In a little more than two weeks, Baptist Hospital will move from its aging campus on E and Moreno streets to a $650 million facility…
Daily Outtakes: Children’s Trust suffers another loss
Kim Krupa submitted her resignation yesterday, effective Oct. 13. Krupa has served for the past year as Escambia Children’s Trust‘s Director of Programs and Performance….
Daily Outtakes: Johnson hand picks his new board (Updated)
Opening Doors Northwest Florida CEO John Johnson has hand-picked the Continuum of Care (CoC) governance board, whose first meeting will be at 9 a.m. on…
Tropical Storm Idalia expected to become Cat 3 (updated)
On WCOA, this morning, Escambia County Public Safety Director Eric Gilmore said the Tropical Storm Idalia is expected to become a mid-category 3 storm when…
Daily Outtakes: Salzman wanders off the mental health ‘roadmap’
State Rep. Michelle Salzman is reconvening the Mental Health Task Force of Northwest Florida for an invitation-only meeting for “brainstorming, designing and planning for a…
Takeaways from Mayor’s presser
Finding $20 Million to Demo Baptist Hospital At his weekly presser on Tuesday, Mayor D.C. Reeves said that he has met with Baptist Hospital leaders…
Daily Outtakes: Escambia Children’s Trust follows up
On Monday afternoon, Escambia Children’s Trust executive director Tammy Greer sent a double-edged follow-up email recarding proposed Children’s Resource Center. At the meeting, the City…
Podcasts: National Health Center Week, ‘Jules,’ CyberSkills2Work, Pelican Drop and more
On Friday’s “Real News with Rick Outzen” on WCOA, we covered Community Health Northwest Florida celebrating National Health Center Week. Jason Nathanson reviewed “Jules” and…
