Carol Gentry
Carol Gentry, founder and special correspondent of Health News Florida, has four decades of experience covering health finance and policy, with an emphasis on consumer education and protection.
After serving two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Colombia, Gentry worked for a number of newspapers including The Wall Street Journal, St. Petersburg Times (now Tampa Bay Times), the Tampa Tribune and Orlando Sentinel. She was a Kaiser Foundation Media Fellow in 1994-95 and earned an MPA at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in 1996. She directed a journalism fellowship program at CDC for four years.
Gentry created Health News Florida, an independent non-profit health journalism publication, in 2006, and served as editor until September, 2014. She and Health News Florida joined WUSF in 2012. Contact Ms. Gentry at at 727-410-3266 or by e-mail.
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Two weeks before the federal Health Insurance Marketplace opens for enrollment, a major national company is withdrawing its Florida plans from the... -
A doctor accused of giving a toddler a fatal dose of an unapproved drug was declared “very, very dangerous” at a meeting of the Florida Board of... -
Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Kevin Kiermaier spent Thursday, Dec. 11 visiting pediatric patients at Tampa General Hospital. According to Karen Van Cleaf,... -
A doctor accused of sending sexually explicit videos and texts to a patient should be barred from treating females and should be suspended until he... -
Federal health officials are issuing audit reports and rushing to collect $267 million in alleged overpayments to some Florida hospitals to close the... -
The 2014 Florida Legislature passed a number of bills relating to health care, most of them modest in scope. But at least one that passed will probably... -
Judging from what they say and what's in the proposed state budget, Florida's top elected officials care about children, the elderly and the seriously... -
Florida Blue may have bitten off more than it can chew with its new plans under the Affordable Care Act. The company's customer-service apparatus and… -
Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner is defending his plan to use the federal Homeland Security database known as SAVE (Systematic Alien Verification... -
While most of the uninsured will be able to get subsidized health coverage Jan. 1 under the Affordable Care Act, the poorest adults under 65 will be out…
