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Jacksonville Daily Record
Community Hospice opens $6 million center for seriously ill children
Community Hospice & Palliative Care of Northeast Florida cut the ribbon June 11 on its $6 million Dorion Family Pediatric Center, a facility built to care for children with life-threatening illnesses and to support their families. The project fulfills the dying wish of philanthropist George Dorion, who died in 2021....
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Community Hospice & Palliative Care Opens New Pediatric Center
Florida-based Community Hospice & Palliative Care has opened its new pediatric center in a move to expand support for serious and terminally ill children and their families. The Dorion Family Pediatric Center is part of the organization’s Community PēdsCare program, which will provide therapeutic day services to pediatric hospice and palliative patients starting in mid July.
The Florida Times-Union
Baptist Health, Nemours, HCA Memorial make health care news
Baptist Health has opened the $32.3 million first phase of a new campus designed to serve residents of a master plan community in fast-growing Southeast Jacksonville. Baptist HealthPlace at Seven Pines provides "preventive health care and specialty services to manage ongoing medical conditions in a single centralized hub," according to Baptist. The hub "combines neighborhood convenience with the expertise and resources of Northeast Florida’s largest and most preferred health system." Residents now have access to multiple services in the first of two medical office buildings. Those services include primary care, cardiology, orthopedics, rehabilitative and lab services and a wellness center. "By embedding preventive health services directly into neighborhoods, we are making wellness part of everyday life and creating regular opportunities to identify health concerns early," President and CEO Matthew Zuino said. "We want to advance community health by shifting the focus from treating illnesses to preventing them in the first place." The second medical office building — now under construction — is "being designed with the flexibility to expand and evolve alongside the community’s changing health care needs," Baptist said. The site is near Butler Boulevard and Interstate 295, just east of St. Johns Town Center. About 1.25 million people
First Coast News
Barnabas Center expands into Callahan, bringing health and food services closer to families in need
CALLAHAN, Fla. — Barnabas Center is expanding its footprint into West Nassau County, a move leaders said will bring health care, food assistance and support services closer to residents who often face long drives to access help. The nonprofit plans to build a new facility off U.S. 1 in...
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Jacksonville Kids Hospice Set To Make History As Florida First
Jacksonville is about to make statewide history. On June 11, the city will open the Dorion Family Pediatric Center inside the Earl B. Hadlow Center for Caring on Sunbeam Road, launching what local leaders say is Florida’s first hospice and palliative care facility built specifically for children. The donor-funded building is designed around kids with complex medical needs and their families, giving Community PēdsCare a permanent, child-centered home with play spaces, therapy rooms and places for families to gather. Staff say having everything under one roof should mean less time in the car and more time at the bedside, and families are already calling the new setup life-changing.
Jacksonville Daily Record
Mayo Clinic, Borland Groover announce AI-related initiatives
Two heatlhcare providers with a presence in Jacksonville announced initiatives involving artificial intelligence June 2. Jacksonville-based Borland Groover said it developed artificial intelligence technology to assist physicians at its gastroenterology clinics, while Mayo Clinic announced it had teamed with Microsoft to develop and deploy an AI model for healthcare. Borland...
Jacksonville Daily Record
Baptist HealthPlace at Seven Pines opens June 2
The area’s third Baptist HealthPlace location opens June 2. Baptist HealthPlace at Seven Pines is at 11851 Stillwood Pines Blvd., at Resolution Drive, south of Butler Boulevard at the Kernan Boulevard exit. The other locations are in Nocatee and Fleming Island. The medical facility offers primary care, cardiology, orthopedics,...
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‘Life-changing’: Florida’s first pediatric hospice and palliative care center to open in Jacksonville
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A new center opening in Jacksonville aims to provide children with serious illnesses and their families something many say is hard to find: a place designed specifically for them. The Dorion Family Pediatric Center, set to officially open June 11 inside the Earl B. Hadlow Center...
Jacksonville Daily Record
Baptist Health seeks permit for $3.79 million Central Services Center project
Baptist Health Properties Inc. is working toward an almost $3.79 million renovation in part of a building at San Marco East Plaza for the healthcare system’s developing Central Services Center. The city is reviewing build-out of almost 31,000 square feet within the two-story, 100,872-square-foot Building D at the business...
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AdventHealth Palm Coast Highlights Growth, Innovation, and Community Commitment at State of the Hospital Event
PALM COAST, Fla. — Community leaders, healthcare professionals, donors, and residents gathered as AdventHealth Palm Coast hosted its annual State of the Hospital event, offering an inside look at the organization’s recent accomplishments, future goals, and continued investment in healthcare across Flagler and St. Johns counties. The event...
The Florida Times-Union
NE Fla mental health nonprofit won't survive after cuts, needs help
A Jacksonville-based nonprofit that provides suicide prevention and mental health first aid courses in Clay, Duval, Flagler, Nassau, Putnam and St. Johns counties and across the country must raise $300,000 by year's end or face closure. Talkable Communities has trained about 12,000 people to help save lives in crisis since it was founded in 2021. But its annual state budget request was not renewed this year, even as demand for mental health services increases. The nonprofit has launched a fundraising campaign, Hope Needs Help, to solicit public donations and is also applying for grants, among other potential revenue sources. "Our trainings are relevant across every sector, from health care and schools to corporations, faith communities and government agencies," the nonprofit's program manager, Mary Kelley Lancaster, said. "People walk away knowing how to recognize a mental health challenge and what to do about it. We know this work saves lives and makes our communities more resilient. I’ve seen it create hope in people where none existed. Right now, that hope needs help." Talkable Communities offers youth mental health first aid, adult mental health first aid amd suicide, online and in person. It also has courses in crisis intervention for caregivers and
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Dr. Christopher Watson on bold self-advocacy and health
Dr. Christopher Watson did not arrive at medicine through a straightforward path. The board-certified family medicine physician, who now serves as Chair of Family Medicine at Ascension Southside Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, grew up in Alabama watching his grandparents go without adequate care. Before medical school, he taught high school science in Atlanta through Teach for America, where a 16-year-old student with asthma died because she lacked access to a primary care physician and did not know the difference between her rescue inhaler and her control inhaler.
pontevedrarecorder.com
Gonstead Chiropractic Clinic holds ribbon cutting
Gonstead Chiropractic Clinic of Jacksonville opened its doors in October 2025 and celebrated its opening with a ribbon cutting on Wednesday, April 29. Dr. Daniel Brisuda, known to all as Dr. Dan, utilizes the Gonstead method, which offers an effective, holistic approach to chiropractic care. “I love the Gonstead method...