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Mandate may help get staff vaccinated at nursing homes

At Consulate Health Care of Vero Beach, a 159-bed skilled nursing facility where the staff intimately cares for ...

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Cleveland Clinic Indian River nurses vote to keep union

Contract negotiations between Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital and the union representing its registered nurses have intensified, as ...

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Death toll since COVID surge now up to 128 here

Another 18 people have died of COVID-19 in Indian River County, according to the county health department’s latest ...

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Malpractice jury trial going ahead despite pandemic

What may well be the largest medical malpractice suit ever tried in Vero will go forward Oct. 4 ...

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County’s COVID death toll swells by more than two dozen

Another 29 more people have died of COVID-19 in Indian River County in the past several weeks, including ...

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COVID has claimed at least 81 here since July surge

As the state continues inexplicably to withhold weekly COVID death counts by county, Indian River County’s health department ...

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Death toll here from Delta surge finally becoming clear

Just how many people have died here since the Delta variant took over has been not been easy ...

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‘Our hospital is full of people needlessly suffering’

On the eve of the Pfizer vaccine winning full approval from the FDA, a panel of top Cleveland ...

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COVID-19 surge filling ICUs at local hospitals

The COVID-19 surge here is pushing local hospitals closer and closer to the breaking point. More than 100 ...

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Vaccine booster shots available locally now for those eligible

Jeff Powers has dealt with his share of bad luck: a bad bout of COVID-19 when no one ...

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‘As soon as I get out of here, I want to get the vaccine’

Three weeks and three days before the death of Dr. Kim Yerich, his beloved cousin, Elizabeth Pantano, made ...

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Departure of top surgeon leaves a void at hospital

Dr. Mark Malias, a cardiothoracic surgeon at the Welsh Heart Center at Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital, resigned ...