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Gilberto “Gil” Balli was named assistant special agent in charge of the FBI Jacksonville Resident Agency branch. He will oversee all operations in seven FBI offices in Daytona Beach, Ocala, Gainesville, Tallahassee, Panama City, Fort Walton and Pensacola.
• Orange Park Medical Center, an HCA Healthcare affiliate, named
Pete Long-Innes as chief operating officer of Orange Park Medical Center. He most recently was COO of Frankfort (Kentucky) Regional Medical Center, also an HCA affiliate. He has 12 years of experience within HCA Healthcare.
• At-Large Group 1 City Council member
Terrance Freeman joined Read USA as its first full-time CEO. Read USA is a nonprofit that has provided a quarter of a million free books to more than 73,000 children in Duval County since 2011.
As of Wednesday, 6,533,066 Florida residents have been fully vaccinated with the coronavirus vaccine.
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Ben Price always was the biggest presence in any room. Loud and funny, his smile was captivating, said his wife, Jennifer.
The couple owned a small business and two farms in an Illinois suburb west of Chicago, where they lived with their two teenage children. She said her husband was the hardest working man she had ever met.
“He was the epitome of unconditional love and loved his kids with all his heart, she said. | Read more
In the early days of COVID-19, Racheal Steppe, a nurse at Baptist Medical Center South, signed up to administer coronavirus tests in downtown Jacksonville. It was a scary time, full of unknowns, and she wanted to help.
She and a colleague had been talking about responding to the virus. They decided that for nurses it would be comparable to the efforts of first responders who rush to a fire or a crime scene. This is our turn, Steppe said. This is our time to serve.
And serve she did, along with nurses across the country and world. And now it s National Nurses Week, an annual occasion to mark the work of nurses of all kinds. It began Thursday and lasts through Wednesday, the birthday of Florence Nightingale.
Breakthrough stroke treatment saves Troy manâs life
New procedure for stroke victims being offered at Baptist Medical Center By Ashley Bowerman | April 18, 2021 at 5:03 PM CDT - Updated April 18 at 5:18 PM
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - A new procedure at Baptist Medical Center South saved a patient from the effects of a stroke by removing a blood clot from his brain. The hospital says the treatment is the areaâs first for life-saving stroke care.
On April 6, 73-year-old Michael Amos was at his home in Troy with his wife when suddenly, he was unable to speak or move the right side of his body. Michaelâs wife, Carol Amos, called 911 and requested an ambulance transport him to Baptist South.
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