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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Dwayne Scheuneman is a Navy veteran who was paralyzed after a diving accident. But thanks to his drive and determination, he has become a successful
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Florida has stopped most inspections and complaint investigations in nursing homes, health clinics and other health-care facilities. Now the inspectors
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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has become the Obama administrations envoy to Florida on behalf of the Affordable Care Act. She has -
Pinellas County government officials suffered a blow Wednesday when they learned about the state Department of Health's order barring enrollment Navigators -
University of South Florida will receive the lion's share of "Navigator Grants" being issued for Florida, according to the Department of Health and Human -
Florida’s private homeowners’ insurance market is “the worse it’s ever been” in the past five years according to Michael Letcher, president of the Home -
It appears increasingly likely that the legislative session will end on Friday without agreement to accept more than $50 billion in federal funds to cover -
The Florida Senate is scheduled to vote on state Sen. Joe Negron's Healthy Florida plan on Tuesday, which would accept billions of dollars in federal funds -
By a 71 to 45 vote, the Florida House of Representatives on Friday passed its own health plan, which relies on state money and bypasses more than $50 -
State Sen. Joe Negron, author of a plan to cover more than 1 million Floridians with private health insurance, offered an amendment on Wednesday intended
