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The donation from Dr. Philips Charities will support the construction of a College of Nursing building in the Lake Nona area and should help UCF increase its nursing student body.

The Legislature approved a fund that includes funds for nursing programs at state colleges and nursing education at career and technical centers.

Ultimately, HCA Florida Capital Hospital and the UCF College of Medicine plan to provide 100 annual residencies in a number of medical specialties.

The university's board of trustees voted to authorize the use of $29 million from the Legislature for a new facility that will help graduate an additional 150 nurses per year.

WMFE spoke with Melanie Guldi, associate professor of economics at the University of Central Florida, about how Florida's new abortion law might affects you and the state economy.

Epidemiologist Elena Cyrus echoes other experts in saying recent COVID numbers are no where near previous surges and the dominant variant is less severe than previous ones.

Capital Regional Medical Center officials hope the residents will settle in the Tallahassee area upon completion of their training.

In Florida, only half of fully vaccinated nursing home residents have gotten the booster for COVID. When you add unvaccinated residents into the mix, just 41% are boosted.

Many colleges are telling students to prepare for another term of masking, testing and, if cases get bad, limits around social life.

Universities with mandates are concentrated in the Northeast and California. Almost all of those without mandates are in states that have restricted the ability to implement similar requirements, including Florida.