The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved under emergency use authorization (EUA) a single COVID-19 booster shot from Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson for vaccinated individuals in certain populations.

The new South Florida Baptist Hospital is scheduled to open in early 2024, replacing the existing facility nearby.

Even as a little girl, Agnes Jastrzebski, a breast nurse navigator at Morton Plant Hospital, knew what she wanted to do when she grew up. “I knew I always wanted to be a nurse and help people,” said Jastrzebski (YA-strehm-ski), who has been a nurse navigator since 2013. “My job lets me help people when they are most afraid. I try to calm their fears and help them on their health care journey.”

With the waning of the most recent surge of COVID-19 infections in our community, all of BayCare’s 14 acute care hospitals have resumed non-urgent surgeries and are lifting some visitor restrictions. Starting Tuesday, Oct. 12, hospital patients will be allowed multiple visitors a day – but they must visit one-at-a-time to enable social distancing in patient’s rooms and inside the hospital facility.

BayCarePlus Medicare Advantage, a subsidiary of BayCare, received a Five-Star rating from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for providing high quality service to its members. As a newer plan, BayCarePlus Medicare Advantage had the default CMS standard rating of 3.5 during its first three years of operation.