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Michelle Genz

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As classrooms reopen, top Vero doc agrees: ‘The much greater risk will be for teachers’

As a lawsuit filed by Florida’s largest teachers union makes its way to Tallahassee following a hearing last ...

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Do summer camp experiences provide model for school?

No masks and no social distancing. That was the mantra at Life for Youth Camp this summer. Despite ...

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When the nursing home finally called: ‘Whatever happened with your dad?’

For weeks, Jonathan MacGown got regular updates via robocalls from Vero’s Sea Breeze Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, where ...

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Cleveland Clinic Indian River moves up in rank among Florida hospitals

It was a tie for 19th place, but Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital will happily take its latest ...

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57 cases of COVID-19 – and 5 deaths – at Sea Breeze

The wave of coronavirus infections swamping Indian River County senior care facilities appeared to have crested this past ...

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COVID-19 flares up in more Vero nursing homes

After months keeping COVID-19 at bay, Sea Breeze Rehab and Nursing Center is experiencing an explosion of cases, ...

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New Sebastian hospital wing nears completion at critical time

Two years past its original announced completion date, Sebastian River Medical Center is close to finishing up a ...

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Long-term care’s lonely lockdown extends to Sept. 5

As Florida’s governor focuses on reopening schools, he has also quietly extended the ban on visitors to long-term ...

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St. Edward’s releases tentative August reopening plan

Amid an escalating pandemic, Stuart Hirstein took his first action as incoming head of St. Edward’s School, announcing ...

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New self-administered COVID-19 swab tests hold promise for wide-scale testing at home

This week, as lines lengthen at COVID-19 testing sites, Florida’s nursing homes and assisted living facilities begin state-mandated, ...

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Local Cleveland Clinic hospital president sees ‘critical’ need for a mask mandate

In early April, experts were frantically trying to model when the COVID-19 pandemic would peak. Mid-April? Early May? ...

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Unknown phone number might be a ‘contact tracer’

Answer your phone! While many of us in recent times have stopped answering calls from telephone numbers we ...