Category: Broward News

Baptist Health South Florida, Broward Health, Cleveland Clinic Florida, HCA East Florida, Jackson Health System, Memorial Healthcare System, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Nicklaus Children’s Health System, Tenet Health, and University of Miami Health System united to launch the campaign. ... Read More

Seniors: At least 2,836 deaths have occurred in nursing homes and long-term care facilities, a figure that represents 44.8% of the state total for coronavirus deaths of residents. Miami-Dade County has the highest number of long-term care facility deaths, with 601, or 21.2% of the total. Palm Beach County had 324 deaths, or 11.4%, and Broward accounted for 204 deaths, or 7.2%. ... Read More

“Regardless of the exact track, the system is expected to bring locally heavy rainfall to much of the Lesser Antilles, and tropical-storm-force winds to portions of the Leeward Islands, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico within the next 24-48 hours. After that time, a general west-northwestward heading should continue but as mentioned before, uncertainty exists as to how close the system tracks to Hispaniola, Cuba, the Bahamas, and Florida,” Brown wrote. ... Read More

Memorial Healthcare System, southern Broward’s public hospital district, has 595 patients with COVID-19 in beds in its five hospitals, with 20% of them in ICU. Three of Memorial’s hospitals close to the Miami-Dade-Broward line are at full capacity in their intensive care units, according to data reported into the Emergency Surveillance System. ... Read More

Samples of unsolicited seeds arriving in U.S. residents’ mailboxes, presumably from China. This one was collected by Maryland’s Department of Agriculture. Officials warn recipients to report them to state or federal authorities and do not plant them in the ground, where they could become toxic or invasive. ... Read More

Protests erupted in cities across the U.S. following the May 25 death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Floyd, who was Black and handcuffed, died after a white police officer pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for nearly 8 minutes even as Floyd begged for air and eventually stopped moving. ... Read More

Maintenance staff at a South Florida nuclear power plant said they’d performed upkeep on a critical piece of the reactor, but inspectors from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission found that the crews hadn’t done the work – and instead just filled out paperwork saying they had – according to documents released Friday by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. (Marcia Heroux Pounds / Courtesy) ... Read More

And there’s more bad news from the state Department of Health: 9,230 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19. That ends two days of declines, and could be a concern because reports on Tuesdays typically see fewer infections. Monday’s count of 8,892 was the lowest in nearly three weeks. ... Read More

Frances Reaves pays a drive-by visit to her friend Margaret Choinacki, 87, who has no other family members left because her husband and daughter have died on July 17, 2020, at Miami Jewish Health in Miami. Miami Jewish Health has connected more than 5,000 video calls and allowed drive-by visits where friends and family emerge through sunroofs to see their loved ones. Reaves wore one of several hats given to her by Choinacki, a hat collector. (Wilfredo Lee/AP) ... Read More

“Sheriff Israel strongly condemns the language used in a video by Terry Scott, an African American community activist,” Rose said. “This language has absolutely no place in our society, and he (Scott Israel) believes it was an unacceptable choice of words. Mr. Scott has since resigned his role in our campaign and political committee.” ... Read More