📅 7/1/2024
While there are many factors that contribute to a child’s healthy and happy future, timely access to high-quality healthcare, developmental and mental health services from birth is essential.
📅 6/1/2024
June 1 marks the start of the Atlantic hurricane season. Running through November 30, this season is predicted to be one of the most active on record, according to forecasters at the Colorado State University, with 23 storms.
📅 5/14/2024
This past session, the Florida Legislature displayed leadership to streamline processes and support timely access to high-quality treatment. We are incredibly grateful for the state’s leadership and all the behavioral health providers who strive to p
📅 5/1/2024
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Although this commemorative month was established in 1949 to raise awareness of the number of people with mental health conditions and to reduce stigma.
📅 4/1/2024
Achieving superior health care outcomes depends on delivering the right care at the right time in the right setting. Whether that’s a primary care clinic, hospital emergency department (ED), inpatient unit, or post-acute facility, patients’ outcomes
📅 2/1/2024
Just three weeks into the legislative session, the Florida Senate already passed two bills in the large omnibus “Live Healthy” health care package.
📅 12/1/2023
Among other impacts, the pandemic served as a catalyst to skyrocketing adoption and use of telemedicine as well as to reimagining how healthcare can be delivered.
📅 10/1/2023
The many challenges to our behavioral health care system cannot be solved overnight, and there is much more to be done to ensure that every Floridian can access timely behavioral health care.
📅 9/1/2023
The results from the Florida Hospital Association’s vacancy and turnover workforce survey for 2023 reveal a dramatic 38 percent decrease in hospitals’ nurse vacancy rate from 2022 to 2023. Hospitals also saw a dramatic decrease in the nurse turnover
📅 8/1/2023
As health care providers with a commitment to remain open and accessible to deliver safe, high-quality, 24/7 care to anyone who needs it, hospitals are unique in the health care ecosystem.
📅 3/7/2023
This session is vitally important for Florida hospitals. After three years of the pandemic and resulting economic losses and workforce shortages, hospitals need relief and support.