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The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) is the chief health policy and planning entity for the U.S. state of Florida. The agency was created by the Florida Legislature as part of the Health Care Reform Act of 1992. [ 1 ]
The Florida Bar defines "health law" as "legal issues involving federal, state, or local law, rules or regulations and health care provider issues, regulation of providers, legal issues regarding relationships between and among providers, legal issues regarding relationships between providers and payers, and legal issues regarding the delivery of health care services."
The 42-bed hospital has been in the works since 2020, with a tentative opening in 2026, if not for the existing providers' objection to the new facility's construction. In 2018, the Department of Health and Human Services recommended that states repeal their CON laws because they are a significant reason for increasing medical costs, and they ...
A pending set of Mission Hospital bylaws and policies threaten to punish physicians who criticize the hospital. Voting on the policies closes Nov. 15.
Florida State Hospital (FSH) is a hospital and psychiatric hospital in Chattahoochee, Florida. Established in 1876, it was Florida's only state mental institution until 1947. It currently has a capacity of 1,042 patients. The hospital's current Administration Building is on the National Register of Historic Places. [1]
As the transition was unfolding, Reeves announced that Baptist Health Care and the city were in serious negotiations for the hospital to donate most of its nearly 50-acre campus to the city in ...
The Florida Mental Health Act of 1971, [1] commonly known as the "Baker Act," allows for a) short-term, inpatient voluntary and involuntary examination, b) inpatient voluntary and involuntary admission of an individual for assessment and treatment of a mental illness, and c) involuntary outpatient treatment for mental illness.
Hospital leadership also said that Coral Gables hospital has the highest scores in Steward’s healthcare system for the following emergency room quality measures: patients that left without being ...