Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jeff Garcia took on a new role Wednesday: pedestrian safety coach at a clinic for Sulphur Springs Elementary School students. ...more

January 22, 2009

The Bay Pines Veterans Administration Hospital in St. Petersburg is unveiling its newly-expanded emergency room tomorrow. ...more

January 21, 2009

The most heartbreaking e-mail alerts that crossed my computer screen this holiday season arrived from an active, progressive union that has set up a fund for medical benefits for widows and orphans of their former members. ...more

December 21, 2008

Highlands County commissioners voted unanimously last week to confirm the appointment of Robert Palussek as administrator of the Highlands County Health Department. ...more

December 13, 2008

Hospitals need patients. When not enough people are admitted for illness and injury, medical jobs eventually will be lost. ...more

December 6, 2008

Enough is enough! My 401K is losing value by the minute. My future is anything but secure despite planning and saving. Thousands of people in Highlands County have no health insurance or access to routine health care. The food pantries in our county are out of food and people are hungry. The financial markets all over the world are unstable. The stock market is a roller coaster. All of this in the last month of a presidential election campaign. ...more

October 14, 2008

that lawsuits and litigation can destroy quality health care, just as it nearly did the nursing homes and assisted living facilities that communities must have to care for their elderly. ...more

June 7, 2008

The three top executives leaving WellCare Health Plans will walk away from the company with millions of dollars in stock options and restricted stock, as long as they agree not to disparage the company and agree to cooperate with government investigations into its operations. ...more

February 2, 2008

To truly appreciate the impact of allowing Florida's Personal Injury Protection (PIP) law - also known as mandatory 'no-fault' automobile insurance - to expire, one must understand what it was like before the law was enacted in 1971. As an auto-insurance claims adjuster in Florida prior to the implementation of PIP, I know exactly what it was like and why PIP was such a welcome relief. ...more

September 6, 2007