Jacksonville

The ambulance would be the latest addition to Florida’s first mobile stroke treatment unit network, which speeds care to patients and greatly reduces the risk of death or disability, UF officials say.

Ground was broken on the 8,300-square-foot Dorion Family Pediatric Center, which will help children deal with complex medical conditions, as well as help their families work through their deaths.

The project will feature two emergency rooms, plus waiting areas and 100 patient rooms — 63 for adults and 37 for children. Plans also include three pediatric trauma rooms.

On this episode, our host Dr. Joe Sirven highlights a new community health program in Duval County that connects uninsured patients to medical services.

Details of the insurance agreement is starting to come into focus for Northeast Florida patients. Meantime, an impasse remains in negotiations between United Healthcare and UF Health.

Mayor Donna Deegan held a signing ceremony to join Fast-Track Cities, adding Jacksonville to the hundreds of metro areas around the world striving for "zero new HIV infections and zero HIV-related deaths."

More facilities are partnering with private equity-backed firms to offer combined emergency and urgent care. But patients may not realize prices vary between the two services — often by a lot.

Primary technology is again available for Ascension's Sacred Heart and St. Vincent's providers, nearly a month after a ransomware attack forced the St. Louis-based health system to shut down its network.

A Florida appeals panel has ruled that the Delaware attorney general can resume a decades-old claim that her state was shortchanged the cash promised in the will of wealthy industrialist Alfred I. duPont.

Ascension, which runs hospitals and clinics in North Florida, is investigating whether patient data was affected. Meantime, electronic health records are down and "nonemergent" procedures are postponed.