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The City of Jacksonville launched its 2024 Get Covered Jax! campaign, which is designed to help Jacksonville residents without health insurance get covered. Mayor Deegan and healthcare leaders in City Hall created Get Covered Jax! last fall because they wanted […]
Doctors at Mayo Clinic used a new catheter-based approach to draw out resistant pockets of infection that settle in the heart, known as right-sided infective endocarditis, without surgery. Unless treated quickly, the walled-off infections can […]
The Richard Webster-Bass Health Institute (RWBHI), a non-profit organization that supports sickle cell families and advances in health equity convened their annual ‘Health, Hope and Healing Sickle Cell Symposium’ at Florida State College Jacksonville (FSCJ) […]
Research teams from Mayo Clinic in Florida and Carnegie Mellon University will work on a federally funded project to accelerate the development and testing of a new device to treat patients with type 2 diabetes and obesity. The bioelectrical device, known […]
September 30, 2024 | Baptist Health Jacksonville and Florida Blue reached a new multi-year agreement which ensures that thousands of Florida Blue members will retain their access to the Baptist Health and Wolfson Children’s Hospital […]
What’s the latest on negotiations between Florida Blue/Baptist Health? Florida Blue continues to negotiate in good faith today, ahead of the deadline at 11:59pm. Florida Blue’s goal remains to reach an agreement that keeps Baptist […]
Baptist Health Statement – Sept. 30, 2024, 4:30 pm With time still on the clock, Baptist Health remains actively engaged in good-faith negotiations with Florida Blue. Our current contract extends through midnight tonight. We believe […]
September 23, 2024 | We are now a week away from the deadline on our current contract with Baptist Health Jacksonville and need the community’s support by urging Baptist health leaders to discuss a reasonable proposal. […]
September 13, 2024 | News updates: With the clock ticking and in an effort to reach a resolution, Florida Blue has put forward a multi-year proposal that would significantly increase Baptist Health’s rates over the next […]
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