Tampa General Hospital

The TampaWell program will include the construction of a "Health Trail" through downtown Tampa along with stressing the importance of exercise and healthy eating habits.

Treatments are only available for patients at high risk for developing severe COVID-19. Select pharmacies and health facilities have supplies.

The operations are expensive, risky and use a scarce resource — donated lungs — that might otherwise go to patients with cystic fibrosis or other diseases.

Tampa General Hospital is renaming its pediatric inpatient services, and renovating the whole department.

University of South Florida officials sent a letter to St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman asking to be a part of the redevelopment conversation.

Sarasota Memorial Hospital, which had not been allowing visitations, said it will now allow most patients to have two visitors. It also resumed nonemergency surgeries this week.

At the forefront of the concerns is a shortage of nurses, which the executives told lawmakers has created an emergency for hospital administrators.

BayCare's CEO issued a “letter to the community” that described a “conundrum” that hospitals have faced because of severe staffing shortages during the pandemic.

Mayor Jane Castor and leaders from area hospitals held a news briefing Friday to discuss the recent spike in COVID-19 cases.

The treatment is proving to be an effective tool at preventing severe illness, but patients who test positive for COVID-19 have to get it early in order for it to work well.