HCA Healthcare, which operates Fawcett Memorial Hospital, Englewood Community Hospital and Doctors Hospital of Sarasota, announced a new effort Friday to protect its employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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To slow the spread of coronavirus we’re being told to wash our hands more, preferably with soap and water, or failing that, with hand sanitizers. The resulting rush to buy hand sanitizers has led to empty shelves in supermarkets and chemists. But it hasn’t taken long for recipes for hand san…
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With the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expected to increase its recommendations for more use of masks in public, there are people wanting to create their own.
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VENICE - Missing your Venice Theatre fix? You can start getting a bit of it back tonight.
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SARASOTA — A Sarasota County firefighter has tested positive for COVID-19, county officials reported Friday afternoon.
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SARASOTA — Sarasota Memorial Hospital announced Tuesday afternoon that it has nine patients with confirmed COVID-19 at its facilities — and two others have died — both with the coronavirus as the cause or suspected cause.
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All restaurants and bars statewide will have to suspend all on-premises food and alcohol sales, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday afternoon in an executive order.
There are three more positive coronavirus cases in Charlotte and Sarasota counties, as of Friday.
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Local hospitals are limiting visitor policies in reaction to the increasing spread of coronavirus.
Doctors Hospital is proud to have treated and discharged to home the first hospitalized patient in the state of Florida diagnosed with COVID-19.
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CHARLOTTE COUNTY — The Florida Department of Health announced a new presumptive positive case of COVID-19 in Charlotte County on their Twitter page Saturday afternoon.
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SARASOTA — The first 14 patients at Sarasota Memorial Hospital who were tested for coronavirus received good news — they tested negative.
Some local hospitals, and even the state Department of Health, are reluctant to share the number of patients being monitored for COVID-19.
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SARASOTA — A patient at Doctors Hospital of Sarasota is being treated for coronavirus, according to a letter distributed to patients and obtained by the Sun.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or CMS, updated their overall hospital quality star rating data this week.
PUNTA GORDA — What’s better than free samples?
* This story was updated Oct. 29, 2019 to include the website for Dollars for Mammograms.
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There are 100 trauma alerts on average each year from Charlotte County.
Hundreds walk Out of the Darkness
It is a very trying time for many animal shelters in Southwest Florida.
PUNTA GORDA — The Student Impact Team at Punta Gorda Middle School recorded powerful public service announcement videos for their peers.
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PORT CHARLOTTE — Unable to move from her bathroom floor, Debra Tyler didn’t have much time.
PORT CHARLOTTE — Punta Gorda resident Bill Thomson, 87, has been going to the Fawcett Memorial Hospital pool for 18 years.
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In March, smokable medical marijuana was signed into Florida law. Now, state legislators are looking to place restrictions and limits on that.
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Eating disorders are the least talked about, least treated, yet the most deadly of mental illnesses.
Chelsea Place Senior Care held its trivia night on Feb. 28 at its adult day care facility located at 3626 Tamiami Trail, Port Charlotte.
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PORT CHARLOTTE — You could slice the tension in the air with a well-timed serve of a ping pong ball.
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NORTH PORT — Gunner lived in a hotel with his mother and two younger siblings when he ran away.
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SARASOTA — A few weeks after the Sarasota County Department of Health disclosed four children in its region suffering from measles, studies suggest an easy vaccine to protect kids from such illnesses are being ignored.
Last weekend I made a jaunt down to Fort Myers to run the Edison Bridge. I have the New York City Marathon coming up — which has five bridge crossings — so I’ve been trying to hit different bridges throughout my training.
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NAMI — the National Alliance on Mental Illness — is planning its first annual 5K walk at the Fort Myers Pier on Saturday, Sept. 29.
