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HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital is planning in December to perform its first procedures in its new hybrid operating room, which is part of its $100 million tower expansion in Fort Pierce.
Right now, a small uptick of COVID-19 and flu cases are being reported in St. Lucie County despite the low volume of hospitalizations, according to health experts.
Fort Pierce doctor says the vaccine and booster shot are important for COVID-19 patient care.
As COVID cases steadily decline across the state, Treasure Coast hospitals are not letting their guard down.
(Rosem Morton/Reuters) “Futile care” — the forced removal by doctors and hospital bioethics committees of wanted life-extending treatment over patient and family objections — is, alas, still the law of Texas. And now a hospital in Florida has sued for the right to do the same thing to Genea Bristol, age 41. Here’s the bitter irony: Bristol is a nurse who contracted COVID caring for coronavirus patients in nursing homes and experienced severe lung damage. Now, she is threatened with losing her own life despite her own apparent views on such a decision and the wishes of her mother. H...