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Glitch Halts Medicaid Workers' Paychecks
Glitches in a new Medicaid computer system have left many workers who care for Florida's poor and disabled without paychecks for the past three weeks. ...more
July 18, 2008
Computer System Glitches Leave Medicaid Workers Without Paychecks
Glitches in a new Medicaid computer system have left many workers who care for Florida's poor and disabled without paychecks for the past three weeks. ...more
July 17, 2008
Puppets Speak To All Ages
Lynn Helms and her husband, Richard, moved to Plant City from Connecticut in 1998. They soon discovered First Presbyterian Church of Plant City. ...more
July 16, 2008
Girl's Scout Project Gets Seal Of Approval
Jessica Smith of Riverview was among 32 Gold Award recipients honored June 14 at a reception in Tampa hosted by the Girl Scouts of West Central Florida. ...more
June 28, 2008
Government To Rate Nursing Homes On Scale Of 1 To 5
The United States has five-star rankings for restaurants and hotels. So why not five-star rankings for nursing homes? ...more
June 19, 2008
County's Budget 'Turkeys' Not Cause For Celebration
"Politics," the late American newspaper editor and writer Charles Dudley Warner once quipped, "makes strange bedfellows." ...more
June 15, 2008
Lawyers, Long-Term Care Don't Mix
that lawsuits and litigation can destroy quality health care, just as it nearly did the nursing homes and assisted living facilities that communities must have to care for their elderly. ...more
June 7, 2008
Intestinal Bug Seen As Growing Threat
The number of people hospitalized with a dangerous intestinal superbug has been growing by more than 10,000 cases a year, according to a new study. ...more
May 29, 2008
People in the news
•Katie Robinson, commander of Veterans Village American Legion Post 343 and the American Legion Service Officer at the New Port Richey VA Outpatient Clinic, received a special award at the Annual Volunteers Award ceremony held by the James A. Haley Veterans Hospital. Robinson received the President's Call to Service Award for volunteering 4,369 hours to the clinic. She has visited the clinic once a week since it opened in 1985. Robinson also has four veterans in local nursing homes for which she tries to help with their veteran benefits. ...more
May 10, 2008
Do You Have A Burning Desire?
I wasn't too sensitive about turning 60, the age when people take their first baby steps into codgerhood. ...more
May 9, 2008
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