hospitals

A new $150.5 million investment, approved four months after construction began, will add 92 beds, including 48 acute care beds, 20 skilled nursing beds and space for another 24 acute care beds.

Attorney General James Uthmeier says the state would not sit on the sideline while many hospitals have "extorted patients who have come in with life-or-death cases and left with crippling debt.”

Federal law says Medicaid must cover out-of-state emergency care. But a Volusia County man got a five-figure bill after a Rapid City hospital declined to charge his state’s Medicaid program.

The city recently approved construction of apartment towers on downtown property once earmarked for Moffitt expansion. Mayor Ken Welch tells the St. Pete Catalyst the cancer institute is not out of picture.

A survey of more than 2,000 Polk County residents found that 42% needed health care but were unable to receive it last year.

Five Palm Beach County-based hospitals allege that the nonprofit pressures hospitals to volunteer their data and pay for memberships. Leapfrog strongly denies the claims.

City officials field questions about the conversations around selling Tallahassee Memorial Hospital to Florida State University during a panel discussion.

The cities of Key Colony Beach and Marathon both agreed to continue paying into the Middle Keys Health Care Municipal Service Taxing Unit for one more year.

A survey of more than 2,000 Polk residents found that 42% needed health care but were unable to receive it last year.

The Brevard community expresses disappointment after Orlando Health, citing poor conditions and neglect, shuttered the hospital, which it bought during Steward Health Care’s bankruptcy last year.