Christine Jordan SextonDecember 15, 2021
8min1047
By 2035, researchers estimate Florida doctors will only be able to meet 76% demand for services.
Tag: Florida Safety Net Hospital AllianceWhen one door closes, a window opens.
Christine Jordan SextonDecember 15, 2021
Michael MolineJune 8, 2017
5min391
The Senate’s versions of legislation pumping money into public schools, hospitals, Enterprise Florida, and Visit Florida — and establishing a regulatory framework for medical marijuana — cleared the Appropriations Committee Thursday. The votes — either unanimous or nearly so — sent the measures to the Senate floor. They also augured confrontations with the House involving […]
Michael MolineApril 3, 2017
5min332
Representatives of hospitals that invest heavily in physician training and care for the indigent held a news conference Monday to protest plans in the Legislature to slash Medicaid re-imbursement rates. The cuts would undermine the state’s investments in training doctors, alliance members argued outside the Senate Office Building in Tallahassee. Under the Graduate Medical Education […]
Staff ReportsFebruary 27, 2017
5min331
Representatives of hospitals that provide a lot of charity care in Florida were headed to Washington Monday to urge federal health care officials and members of Congress to give them more money and freedom to spend it. Tony Carvalho, president of the Safety Net Hospital Alliance of Florida, said members hope the Trump administration will […]
Mitch PerryMarch 5, 2015
4min192
Florida will be short nearly 7,000 doctors by 2025 if more residency programs are not created throughout the state to keep up with demand, according to a study released by the Florida Safety Net Hospital Alliance and the Teaching Hospital Council last month. Physicians trained in psychiatry, general surgery, rheumatology, cancer treatment, and thoracic surgery will likely […]