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NYU Langone Health has announced plans to open a brand new ambulatory care facility in South Florida following a $75 million gift by the Julia Koch Family Foundation. The West Palm Beach facility, set to open in 2026, will be the first new Florida location since 2017 for NYU Langone, which has received consistent recognition as one of the best hospital systems in the country. The eight-story, state-of-the-art health facility, to be located at 324 Datura Street, will have space for 50 physicians and serve around 150,000 patients each year. It will offer 76,000 square feet of clinical space, including...

In response to a violent weekend of fatal shootings, the City of Miami Beach has declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew beginning at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, March 19, 2023, and lasting until 6 a.m. on Monday, March 20, 2023. The decision was prompted by two separate incidents, one on Friday night in South Beach that left one person dead and another injured, and another fatal shooting that occurred early Sunday morning. The City Manager plans to implement additional curfew restrictions from Thursday, March 23, 2023, through Monday, March 27, 2023, to ensure public safety. A special...

A group of South Florida doctors walked out of their hospital Monday to protest the surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations among the unvaccinated. The doctors walked out just before sunrise in an effort to encourage residents to get the COVID-19 vaccine, saying they are fatigued from working so hard during the latest surge. “We are exhausted. Our patience and resources are running low and we need your help,” Dr. Rupesh Dharia from Palm Beach Internal Medicine told NBC 8.

Firefighters were extricating dozens of people from a battered high-rise condominium building near Miami on Thursday after part of the structure collapsed into a mammoth pile of rubble leaving at least one person dead, authorities said. Raide Jadallah, assistant fire chief of operations for Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, said 35 people were pulled from the partially collapsed building at Champlain Towers South. Two more were rescued from the debris, he said. More than 80 technical and rescue teams were on the scene in Surfside, a few miles north of Miami Beach. Watch the (CCTV) surveillance video of the moment when the...

In just a few short days, the United States - under the ruling of Florida 6th Circuit Judge George W. Greer - will take a step toward ridding itself of those it does not see fit to live. This Nazi-like mentality has played out in the case of Terri Schiavo of Florida, whose estranged husband, Michael, has been pursuing legal action since 2000 to have her feeding tube removed. Judge Greer last month set 1 p.m. March 18 as the time and day in which Terri will begin one of the most heinous of deaths - starvation. Until this point,...