Tag: emergency care

Mariners Hospital Reopens in the Florida Keys...

Mariners Hospital, at mile marker 91.5 in Tavernier, is officially open. Although the hospital had been providing emergency services within...

September 15, 2017

Mariners Hospital Treating Emergencies After Hurricane Irma...

Hurricane Irma made landfall on Cudjoe Key early Sunday morning. 96-hours later, Mariners Hospital is offering emergency care to an...

September 14, 2017

Post-Storm Emergencies: Where to Go

As its hospital emergency rooms continue to see high volumes, Baptist Health South Florida is encouraging people with non-life threatening...

September 12, 2017

Fever in Children: When to Worry

With reports of flu cases at elevated levels in nearly all regions of the country, health officials are urging adults and...

February 3, 2017

Screenings Aim to Reduce HIV, Hep-C Infection...

To meet the community’s needs, and based on revised recommendations issued by the CDC, Homestead Hospital started a routine HIV,...

December 1, 2016

Staying Safe After the Storm

As soon as the threat from Hurricane Matthew subsides, state and local officials will be surveying the damage and assessing...

October 6, 2016

Children’s Health: Six Summer Water Safety Tips...

"For every one child that dies from a water-related drowning, another five come to the emergency room for near drownings,"...

May 23, 2016

Watch Now: Facts About the ER —...

Injuries account for about for 40.2 million of ER visits, and 12 percent of all ER patients are hospitalized, according...

March 2, 2015

When to Seek Emergency Care for Your...

At Baptist Children’s Hospital Emergency Center, my colleagues and I see a lot of children and teens with sports injuries....

March 27, 2013

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