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• New requirements that all nursing homes and assisted living facilities have a generator capable of running the air conditioning for four days may put some homes out of business.
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• The CEO of Florida’s largest health insurance company says he expects federal payments to make health insurance cheaper will continue through 2017.
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• The Trump administration has signaled it will remove transgender health insurance protections. That’s making some people speed up plans for transition while insurance coverage is still guaranteed.
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• The Florida Department of Health has chosen five new marijuana growers in the last few weeks.
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• Florida added more than 10,000 patients by July 27, for a total of 26,978 on the books – that’s a 60 percent increase.
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• Michael Smith graduated from a Caribbean medical school in 2014 with a degree and a mountain of debt.
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• The federal government released more details were released Wednesday about how much health insurance rates could increase next year in Florida — and the spike could be dramatic for some.
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• When appendicitis struck a young mother vacationing in St. Pete Beach eight years ago, she was rushed to Palms of Pasadena Hospital. There, Dr. Ernest Rehnke removed her appendix.
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• “There is a sense of anxiety throughout the city among health care providers in the community, and it’s just unfortunate because it shouldn’t have to be this way,” said Gloriann Gaston, an ER social worker protesting the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.
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• A nonprofit serving patients with HIV and AIDS is moving to a larger location “because our demand for testing and HIV care services has increased dramatically.”
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