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The longest wait for an emergency room visit in Florida is in Fort Myers, at Lee Health's Gulf Coast Medical Center. The average wait there is 4 hours, 34 minutes.

If your health insurance provider is United Healthcare, there is some unfortunate news for you.

How an unpermitted and unlicensed “faith-based” drug rehab facility has prospered with the taxpayers’ help.

Lee Health recently broke ground on a Pediatric Surgery Center and Family Medicine Clinic.

There’s a national shortage of Ob/Gyns. But a new program at Lee Health can help.

The Florida Department of Health dashboard reports 66 measles cases in Collier County and one in Lee County from the beginning of the year until Feb. 14, which is the latest data they are making public. Statewide that number for the same period is 92.

Chronic pain can affect every aspect of life. But now Lee Health is offering workshops to teach people how best to deal with it.

Every forty seconds, someone in the United States suffers a heart attack. We learn how the quick thinking of a bystander helped save one man who experienced an unexpected heart attack.

An outbreak of measles cases among students at Ave Maria University in Naples is apparently on the decline. The Mater Dei Clinic at the Collier County institution reported Friday that there had been no new testing in the last 72 hours. Additionally, the clinic reported that the last positive case reported had been on Monday, February 2.

A mutated strain of influenza is causing additional chaos during the winter flu season. The H3N2 strain is proving to have some resistance to vaccines and is leading to a surge in cases and hospitalizations.