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Questions abound on $4M decision to buy sober home

Shelling out $4 million of taxpayers money to buy an abandoned property and turn it into a women’s ...

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Hospital District makes $4M buy; where’s the plan?

A few days before Christmas, the Hospital District did some last-minute shopping, laying out almost $4 million of ...

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Hospital District hit with blowback over bailout plan

A proposal to give Cleveland Clinic $13.6 million in taxpayer funds to cover losses at Indian River Hospital ...

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Here’s what the Hospital District needs to do right now

The Indian River County Hospital District has the chance to make a fresh start in January, to earn ...

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Hospital District plan to bail out Cleveland Clinic in critical need of many more answers for taxpayers

News Analysis The Indian River County Hospital District has been on a quest to “tell its story” about ...

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Cleveland Clinic not forthcoming on promised data

A month after Cleveland Clinic took issue with a comparison of their Florida hospitals to Orlando Health’s hospitals ...

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Orlando Health issuing bonds to refinance hospital buy

Orlando Health has announced it intends to issue up to $200 million in bonds to refinance its purchase ...

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Hospital District wants finance info, plan before bailout

With the public eye now trained on the Indian River County Hospital District, several district trustees want Cleveland ...

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Trials in wrongful death case postponed until at least April

The trials of Orchid residents Elizabeth Jewkes-Danielsen and Paul Danielsen for their part in a deadly May 2022 ...

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No immediate plans here to stop adding fluoride to city or county drinking water

Neither Vero Beach nor Indian River County has plans right now to stop adding fluoride to the local ...

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Cleveland Clinic fumbles initial response to grades

Cleveland Clinic’s recent defense of its “journey” through mediocre hospital safety grades to local Hospital District trustees must ...

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Cleveland Clinic seeks taxpayer bailout; transparency needed

News Analysis Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital has asked county taxpayers for a $13.6 million bailout over the ...