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FAU medical school gets House OK
Thursday, April 29, 2010
TALLAHASSEE-- A new Florida Atlantic University medical school is quickly moving toward legislative approval. The state House approved a stand-alone medical school at FAU on a unanimous vote Wednesday, hours before the bill was scheduled to hit the Senate floor. FAU would become home to Florida's sixth medical school. "This is one the most significant
 
Fla. universities considering health consortium
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida's 11 state universities will join forces in a health insurance consortium to seek lower premiums and better benefits for students through "bulk buying" under a recommendation approved Wednesday by the Board of Governors. With federal health care overhaul legislation still in doubt, the State University System's Student Health
 
Feds award $8.5 million for South Florida electronic medical records network
Monday, February 15, 2010
A nonprofit group won $8.5 million in federal stimulus money Monday to help South Florida physicians start the complex process of converting paper files to electronic medical records. The project by Health Choice Network was the only one in Florida funded with $1 billion in grants from the Obama administration to push doctors lagging far behind in the
 
Jackson Health System running out of time, cash
Monday, February 15, 2010
As Jackson Health System attempts to dig itself out of a horrendous financial hole that just keeps getting deeper, its executives are confronting three problems: • Attempting to slash a labor force, which is highly unionized, and seeking to reduce salaries and benefits that some experts consider sky-high. • Determining how much of the losses are due to
 
Feds award $8.5 million for South Florida electronic medical records network
Monday, February 15, 2010
A nonprofit group won $8.5 million in federal stimulus money Monday to help South Florida physicians start the complex process of converting paper files to electronic medical records. The project by Health Choice Network was the only one in Florida funded with $1 billion in grants from the Obama administration to push doctors lagging far behind in the
 
Jackson Health System running out of time, cash
Monday, February 15, 2010
As Jackson Health System attempts to dig itself out of a horrendous financial hole that just keeps getting deeper, its executives are confronting three problems: • Attempting to slash a labor force, which is highly unionized, and seeking to reduce salaries and benefits that some experts consider sky-high. • Determining how much of the losses are due to
 
Lunch powwow leaves health leaders queasy
Monday, December 14, 2009
WEST PALM BEACH - Pistache is a French bistro tucked near the fountains on Clematis Street, a cozy restaurant where lobbyists plot strategy with politicos over steak frites and salade Niçoise. A few days before Thanksgiving, Pistache's back room witnessed a power lunch more remarkable than most. Dr. Claude Earl Fox, a former Clinton administration health
 
Workforce Alliance Earns Grant to Train Health Care Workers
Monday, December 7, 2009
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Workforce Alliance was awarded a $134,790 grant by the State of Florida to fund a workforce training program aimed at meeting the high need for skilled health care workers in Palm Beach County. The program is titled the Palm Beach County Healthcare Workforce Initiative. The funding enables Workforce
 
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