North Central Florida Local News

Marion DOH Urges Special COVID-19 Precautions for Those with Cancer, Diabetes, Heart or Lung Disease, or Other Chronic, Underlying Conditions

May 13, 2020 at 01:04 pm by pj

OCALA - If you have cancer, diabetes, heart disease, lung disease, or a chronic or underlying health condition, you are at a higher risk for more severe illness i.... Read More

Hospital Workers Complain of Minimal Disclosure After COVID Exposures

May 13, 2020 at 11:37 am by pj

Jenny Gold, Markian Hawryluk, Kaiser Health News Dinah Jimenez assumed a world-class hospital would be better prepared than a chowder house to inform wo.... Read More

Analysis: We Knew The Coronavirus Was Coming, Yet We Failed 5 Critical Tests

May 13, 2020 at 10:31 am by pj

Elisabeth Rosenthal, Elisabeth Rosenthal, Kaiser Health News The arrival of COVID-19 has provided a nuclear-level stress test to the American health car.... Read More

As Deaths Mount, Coronavirus Testing Remains Wildly Inconsistent In Long-Term Care

May 12, 2020 at 04:48 pm by pj

(Courtesy of Douglas Adkins) Laura Ungar Mary Lanham’s assisted living complex in Florida tested all residents for COVID-19 — once in March and again in Ap.... Read More

‘No Intubation’: Seniors Fearful Of COVID-19 Are Changing Their Living Wills

May 12, 2020 at 04:44 pm by pj

Judith Graham DENVER ― Last month, Minna Buck revised a document specifying her wishes should she become critically ill. “No intubation,” she wrote in l.... Read More

COVID Survivors’ Blood Plasma Is A Sought-After New Commodity

May 12, 2020 at 04:38 pm by pj

(Courtesy of Diana Berrent) JoNel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News Diana Berrent learned she had tested positive for COVID-19 on a Wednesday in mid-March. Within a.... Read More

CMS Builds on Commitment to Transform Healthcare Through Competition and Innovation

May 11, 2020 at 04:52 pm by pj

Proposed changes to Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System would remove barriers to the development.... Read More

Orlando VA Medical Center to host a One Blood Drive

May 11, 2020 at 02:03 pm by pj

The Orlando VA Medical Center (OVAMC) has partnered with One Blood to host a public Blood Drive on May 13, 2020 by appointment only from 9 a.m.- 2 p.m. at the SimLEARN, 13800.... Read More

Top 10 Tips for Reopening Your Medical Office During COVID-19

May 11, 2020 at 01:51 pm by pj

By Kerin Torpey Bashaw, MPH, RN and Debbie K. Hill, MBA, RN As state and local governments determine that criteria have been met to implement Phase One of the federal Op.... Read More

AMA Issues New Principles to Restore Trust in Data Privacy

May 11, 2020 at 01:27 pm by pj

Responding to Americans’ growing reluctance to share health data and unresolved tension over eroding personal privacy, the American Medical Association (AMA.... Read More

Looking For A Path To Reopen, Employers Weigh COVID Testing Of Workers

May 09, 2020 at 04:54 pm by pj

Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News Just a few miles from Disney World, Harris Rosen’s hotel empire is mostly closed because of the COVID pandemic. One cru.... Read More

COVID Bailout Cash Goes To Big Players That Have Paid Millions To Settle Allegations Of Wrongdoing

May 09, 2020 at 04:42 pm by pj

Rachana Pradhan and Fred Schulte, Kaiser Health News The Trump administration has sent hundreds of millions of dollars in pandemic-related bailouts to health ca.... Read More

Reopening In The COVID Era: How To Adapt To A New Normal

May 09, 2020 at 04:34 pm by pj

Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News As many states begin to reopen — most without meeting the thresholds recommended by the White House — a ne.... Read More

Opinion: Doctors and Patients Are Pawns in a Dangerous Political Brinkmanship

May 09, 2020 at 12:12 pm by pj

By ELIZABETH LEE VLIET, MD Front-line physicians treating patients with SARS-CoV2/COVID-19 are seeing an alarming, escalating, orchestrated attack on chloroquin.... Read More

CMS Announces Final Payment Notice for 2021 Coverage Year

May 09, 2020 at 12:35 am by pj

Final rule works towards lowering premiums, improving consumer experience, promoting program integrity and stabilizing the market The Centers for Medicare &.... Read More

Cash-Based Practice Groups, Need Automation and Data Analytics To Grow Their Practice Income. Here's Why?

May 09, 2020 at 12:15 am by pj

By QUINTIN L. GUNN, Sr. Should Your Business or Medical Practice be Salary Only or Salary With Commission? Here are some of the facts about Customer Sales M.... Read More

CDC Launches National Viral Genomics Consortium to Better Map SARS-CoV-2 Transmission

May 07, 2020 at 02:49 pm by pj

CDC has kicked off the SARS-CoV-2 Sequencing for Public Health Emergency Response, Epidemiology and Surveillance (SPHERES) consortium, which will greatly exp.... Read More

Physicians Actively Scheduling Medical Procedures at HCA Healthcare’s Central Florida Hospitals

May 07, 2020 at 12:26 pm by pj

~ Healthcare services expanding as patients now have ability to schedule needed procedures in addition to emergency and inpatient care at Central Florida Regiona.... Read More

Therapists Report Growing Cases of PTSD, Trauma, Anxiety

May 07, 2020 at 12:24 pm by pj

May is Mental Health Awareness Month May, Mental Health Awareness Month, is traditionally a.... Read More

Palliative Care Helped Family Face ‘The Awful, Awful Truth’

May 05, 2020 at 02:26 pm by pj

Will Stone, Kaiser Health News Seattle mourned the news: Elizabeth and Robert Mar died of COVID-19 within a day of each other. They would have celebrated 50 years of.... Read More