Health Care

Medical providers in Florida are speaking out against an immigration bill requiring patients to mark on a hospital form whether they are undocumented.

The organization opened the Dorion-Burt Clinic in South San Marco to better serve working people who are uninsured.

The clinics are among 16 the retailer will open in three Florida cities.

Borland Groover, a gastroenterology provider, is renovating a former private college and vocational educational facility into a two-story endoscopy center and medical office at 805 Wells Road, near Interstate 295 and U.S. 17.

Dmitriy Model came to Jacksonville to escape religious and ethnic persecution in the Soviet Union. Saman Soleymani came to escape the front lines of the Iran-Iraq War. Now the two are co-owners of the Avecina urgent care company.

Founders Jamie and Derek Neal are working to bring what they call culturally competent care to Jacksonville.

Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Jacksonville, at 11595 Burnt Mill Road near Gate Parkway, is scheduled to open in early June,

The retail giant is opening clinics this week on Collins Road in Jacksonville and Branan Field Road in Middleburg.

The Legislature will not overturn what critics deride as the state's "free kill" law, which generally prevents families from filing medical malpractice lawsuits against doctors or hospitals when the victims are adults.

Hospital administrators on Monday gave House committees a glimpse into the challenges facing health care professionals, describing efforts to re-imagine…