hospitals

More than 60,000 people bleed to death every year in the United States. Many of those deaths occur before the patient reaches a trauma center where blood transfusions can be given.

Flu, RSV and other respiratory illnesses are sending people to urgent care and emergency rooms. In some cases, these patients are ending up with pneumonia.

The hospital COO says 93% of the families in Pasco, Citrus and Hernando counties north of Tampa travel outside of that market for specialty pediatric care. The new 56-bed facility will help address that need.

The six-story, 100-bed facility is slated for an undeveloped 32-acre parcel on North Sumter Boulevard near Interstate 75. The board also plans to build another hospital in nearby Wellen Park.

Cape Coral, population of 224,000, has only one hospital. Founded in 1977 and absorbed into the Lee Health system in 1996, Cape Coral Hospital has been doing what it can to serve the city's needs.

The hospital completed 889 procedures at its Transplant Institute last year. That's more than Arizona’s Mayo Clinic, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (845).

As contract negotiations approach, nurses at Palmetto General Hospital in Hialeah joined thousands across the state and country to highlight broad support for solutions that prioritize patient care.

The 21-room, 15,000-square-foot freestanding ER facility, the hospital system's fourth, will help serve residents of north Sarasota County and south Manatee County.

The significantly larger emergency department is part of a broader effort by the health system to expand services in south Sarasota County.

It will be the first nonprofit research hospital in the city and the first new hospital downtown in over a century. It will have 150 beds and an emergency center.