children’s health care

Two families from Northeast Florida claim the state's Medicaid program is illegally applying the same criteria to infants and children with medically complex needs that it applies to adults.

Florida leads the country in the highest rate of COVID-related hospitalizations in kids. WMFE spoke with Orlando pediatrician Dr. Candice Jones about what parents and teachers should know.

An infectious disease specialist with the health system says masks might be appropriate for both vaccinated and unvaccinated students because of the spread of the delta variant.

More than 46,000 U.S. children have lost a parent to COVID. Families say finding even basic grief counseling has been difficult and there’s no coordinated effort to help these children access services or benefits.

The practice of housing children who are in psychiatric crisis in local ERs — often for days, while they await appropriate in-patient treatment — has become even more prevalent during the pandemic.

It’s the first year that U.S. News & World Report produced state-specific and regional lists for its Best Children's Hospital Rankings. No Florida facilities were included in the top 10 nationally.

A year ago, COVID-19 cases in children made up less than 3% of the U.S. total. On Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics said children represented 22.4% of new cases.

The pandemic has been hard on nearly everyone, but it's worse for those who were already at a disadvantage. Without urgent solutions, COVID-19’s toll could be catastrophic for Florida’s most vulnerable students.

Referrals have become so prevalent that the American Academy of Pediatrics came out with interim guidance for doctors "to provide care for the same variety of visits" practiced prior to the pandemic.

Pediatricians challenging how the state pays for Medicaid services to children could see the nine-year-old case end in October, the Miami Herald…