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A half-dozen media members from India gathered to watch a slide show about affluent senior living in Shell Point Retirement Community near Sanibel Island.

Naples-based Arthrex, a medical device company, has finished building a manufacturing plant on Oil Wel Road. Hiring is under way and there are many more jobs to be filled before the plant opens in July.

A Collier County physician is permanently prohibited from prescribing pain medications as part of a settlement agreement reached with the Florida Board of Medicine, state documents show.

Naples-based Health Management Associates owes more than $4.5 million to a Texas company for emergency room software that it is still using, according to a lawsuit filed in Collier Circuit Court.

Lee Memorial Health System recently submitted an application to the state Agency for Healthcare Administration to transfer 80 beds from its downtown Lee Memorial Hospital campus to a proposed hospital site south of Coconut Road near U.S. 41. The state ...

Health Management Associates will not build a hospital in south Lee County.

The Naples Children & Education Foundation presented a special grant of $1 million to the Golisano Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida on Wednesday.

The Lee Memorial Health System wants to be clear to the state Legislature about its support for expanding insurance coverage to thousands of uninsured residents in the community.

A spokeswoman for the state Department of Health said Dr. Zannos Grekos must be present for the board to consider 15 objections to the judge’s findings from his attorney, Richard Ozelie, of Boca Raton.

Southwest Florida residents soon will get the chance to weigh in about a new hospital potentially being built in the Bonita Springs and Estero area.

Nearly 900 elderly Southwest Florida residents who have Medicare Advantage coverage with Universal Health Care need to switch to a new managed-care plan or accept traditional Medicare.

At least three brush fires burned Saturday in the Golden Gate Estates area and eastern Collier County. Part of I-75 was closed but reopened around 11 p.m.

Clam Pass is filling up again. The North Naples inlet to the Gulf was filled in by this morning, disappointing regular beachgoers who have been keeping tabs on a dredging project earlier this month that appeared completed, until now.

Planned Parenthood of Collier County has hired the former communications director at the U.S. Health and Human Services as its new president and chief executive officer.

Trustees for the Naples Children & Education Foundation, sponsors of the Naples Winter Wine Festival, awarded $13.4 million in grants to charitable groups to help improve the lives of disadvantaged children in Collier County.

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A Walgreens pharmacy in Fort Myers will join five other Florida stores to fight the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which is trying to revoke their licenses to fill controlled substances, according to the DEA.

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The Lee Memorial Health System in Lee County estimates $6.5 million will be cut annually from Medicare reimbursement for treating the elderly. Over a 10-year period, the loss would be $65 million.

A Walgreens pharmacy in Fort Myers will join five other Florida stores to fight the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, which is trying to revoke their licenses to fill controlled substances, according to the DEA.

An official with Naples-based Health Management Associates has suggested a meeting with Lee Memorial Health System leaders to discuss working together in the debate about a new hospital proposal in southern Lee County.

Lee Memorial Hospital near downtown Fort Myers may soon be the safest hospital in Lee County. The 355-bed hospital is the first of four Lee Memorial Health System campuses where public entrances are being equipped with Fast-Pass identification systems to ...

Don’t despair if your kids start talking about 95210. It would actually be a good thing.

The skies over Marco Island may look a little odd Saturday.

Expanding the Medicaid program through national health care reform could boost economic activity in Florida by $8.9 billion in 2016 with more people being insured and job growth, according to an analysis by a national health-care consumer group.

The Lee Memorial Health System has notified state authorities it wants to build an up-to-80-bed hospital on Coconut Road to serve Bonita Springs and Estero residents, the hospital announced Wednesday.

Naples-based Health Management Associates is finalizing a lease agreement for the St. Petersburg City Council to consider this week, another step in the company's effort to buy Bayfront Medical Center.

Christian faith is the connection. And that's the case for an estimated 160,000 Americans nationwide, like members of the Loerop family, who belong to a health-care sharing ministry. That's where members pledge to adhere to Christian values, a healthy lifestyle ...

Many Southwest Florida passengers who were bound Saturday for Boston, New York and Toronto had another day to bask in the sun.

Plans are in the early stages but the prospects are favorable that residents of Golden Gate Estates, Immokalee and Ave Maria may have a hospital some day, project supporters say.

An anonymous donation of $400,000 to St. Vincent de Paul Society in Collier County is enabling the charity to advance its causes and help a local food collection agency boost its program, officials announced Wednesday.

Bonita Springs cardiologist Zannos Grekos should lose his license because he committed medical malpractice in performing an unscientific stem cell procedure on a patient who died, according to new case filings.

Naples-based Health Management Associates is planning to relocate its 88-bed Lehigh Regional Medical Center to a yet-undetermined location in southeast Lee County, company officials announced Monday.

The independent Sunshine Pharmacy was an up-and-coming local company a decade ago with employees offering neighborly help to customers. Today, the privately held company's prospects are overshadowed by a federal investigation of potential fraud by its owner, Del Parrish, 43

The Collier County Health Department has revised patient fees for medical and dental services for the first time since 2006, but the poor still will get breaks on fees.

Sunshine Pharmacy owner Del Parrish voluntarily gave up his license to fill prescriptions for certain controlled substances as federal authorities continue a probe of potential Medicare fraud, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials say.

A Medicaid managed-care provider with its roots in Collier County has added six more communities, including Lee County, to its roster of contracts with the state.

Fewer dead fish linked to red tide are washing ashore at Naples beaches compared with several days ago, but tests indicate the microscopic algae has a stronger presence than last week, according to Collier County officials.

When Sal Sinzieri opened his latest restaurant in early December — Fish, in the Village on Venetian Bay — he had no qualms that state regulators were changing food safety standards.

Diane Keene is hoping the odds work in her favor and her vision gets better. The Naples winter resident recently became the first person in Southwest Florida to undergo a drug injection as a new nonsurgical treatment for a debilitating ...

A Sunshine Pharmacy in East Naples remained closed Friday, a day after federal authorities raided it for suspicion of Medicare fraud.

Federal authorities spent Thursday at Sunshine Solutions and Pharmacy in East Naples removing documents in an apparent investigation of potential Medicare fraud on behalf of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid.

State regulators have unveiled a new Medicaid payment system to hospitals so they will be paid the same for the same medical care.

Physicians Regional Healthcare System is delivering on a promise to Marco Island residents and visitors to open a medical center in the community, either at the end of the month or in early February.

The health-care system in the United States faces many challenges and change is essential for people to access medical care, for costs to get under control and for biomedical research to thrive, the president of the third-oldest hospital in the ...

Flu arrived early in Southwest Florida and there's been one known death already in Lee County, all of which indicates residents and visitors need to prepare for what could be a strong flu season in the weeks to come, public ...

Naples-based Arthrex hosted 200 orthopedic surgeons from around the world for a two-day education conference about the medical device manufacturer's latest innovations for improving patient care.

Several Southwest Florida hospitals may be making resolutions to improve medical care because Medicare is changing reimbursement to reflect which hospitals perform well against those that aren't.

Although few health-care consumer organizations have surveyed the uninsured, the expectation is vast numbers won't comply with the requirement that they buy insurance starting in 2014 if it isn't offered by their employer.

The state recouped $162 million from Medicaid fraud investigations last year, a 47 percent increase from $110 million that was recovered in 2011, according to new data released Thursday.