Newborn babies in need of intensive medical care were among the Hurricane Ian victims who have been transferred to South Florida hospitals after the Category 4 storm.

A ground breaking clinical trial is underway at Baptist Health’s Miami Cancer Institute.

Virgin Voyages is donating 500 cruise-ship cabins to 250 Baptist Health South Florida employees on Giving Tuesday.

Baptist Health South Florida in Miami-Dade County and the Memorial Healthcare System in Broward County joined the growing list of organizations that are implementing vaccine mandates.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced Wednesday that it is donating a whopping $15.3 million to invest in Miami-Dade County’s tech and entrepreneurship community. A total of $10 million of that will go to Florida International University to expand what will become the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences. This will help the university increase talent development and research in fields such as artificial intelligence, smart robotics, bioinformatics, biodevices and digital forensics. The University of Miami will receive $4.3 million to grow its Institute of Data Science and Computing and Baptist Health will receive $1 million to launch a health care innovation fellowship. According to a news release from the foundation, with these latest investments, Knight will have donated more than $55 million to Miami-Dade’s “tech entrepreneurship ecosystem” since 2012.

“Within the heart, you can have areas that conduct electricity, but conduct electricity in a very abnormal fashion,” Pascual said. AdThe procedure, done by a multi-disciplinary team, requires no anesthesia or hospitalization. Also in today’s healthcast, research shows that the health of a woman’s heart during pregnancy can play a major role in whether her child will develop cardiovascular disease later in life. The study done at the Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago showed that better maternal heart health at 24 to 32 weeks of gestation was associated with better heart health in their offspring at ages 10 and 14. Data indicates that more than 90 percent of pregnant women in the U.S. have below optimal cardiovascular health.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Baptist Health has canceled first-dose appointments for seniors to receive the COVID-19 vaccine for the foreseeable future due to a shortage in supply. “We have not received an allocation of first dose vaccines for this week and beyond, and the timing of any subsequent deliveries remains unclear,” a spokesperson from the health system said. Balharry, who said he’s 66 with underlying health conditions, finally scored a vaccine appointment with Baptist Health online earlier this month. At the state-run Hard Rock Stadium site, people are wondering if these cards supplied after their first dose guarantees their second dose appointment or whether they need to go online again to make an appointment. If you’ve already made your first appointment and you already got your first dose at Baptist, they told us you will still be getting a second dose.

Only those people who received their first dose at the Hard Rock site will be able to get their second shot there. AdThose showing up need the CDC card that they were given on site, a white card that says which vaccine was administered, along with identification, in order to get the second dose. That means you won’t need to get lucky and score that second appointment through an online system as you did for the initial shot. The Department of Health in Broward County has switched to a phone system to sign up for COVID-19 vaccine appointments (the number is 866-201-6313), and people are asked to use that same process for their second shot appointments. If you were vaccinated by a hospital or senior community, it is best to check with whoever runs that operation for information about your second shot.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Baptist Health has vaccinated about 8,600 frontline healthcare workers and is allowing its employees to bring along one person to be vaccinated who meets the criteria to receive the vaccine (65 or older, or with CDC risk factors). The person must also live in the same household as the employee. “Our first priority is to continue the administration of vaccinations, including the mandatory second dose, to our frontline workers to provide for their safety and strive to have the workforce we need to care for our patients,” a statement Wednesday from the health system read. Note: Our frontline healthcare personnel put members of their household at risk in order to care for our patients, and we hope to ease this burden by facilitating vaccines for these high-risk individuals. A representative from Baptist Health said they will soon be announcing their plans to provide the vaccine to eligible members of the community at large.

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – A small group of South Florida parents kicked off 2021 by welcoming their new children into the world. Baptist Health welcomed its first baby of 2021 at the stroke of midnight. Broward Health welcomed its first baby of 2021 at 12:04 a.m. on January 1. (WPLG)The first baby to arrive at Broward Health Medical Center was delivered at 7:20 a.m. and his name is Liam Munoz. Liam was the first baby of the new year born at Salah Foundation Children’s Hospital at Broward Health Medical Center.

DORAL, Fla. – Baptist Health South Florida’s vaccination campaign continued on Tuesday with supplies of both COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna. UPS delivered the first shipments of the Moderna vaccine to Baptist Health on Monday and they are distributing it from a warehouse in Doral. Ron DeSantis said on Monday that the next phase of the state’s vaccination campaign will focus on long-term care facility residents and other people who are 65 and older. Related stories

Memorial Healthcare in Broward and Jackson Memorial in Miami-Dade are tasked with distributing the thousands of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination doses they received to other hospitals across the region. Madeline Camejo, chief pharmacy officer for Baptist Health South Florida showed their facility’s vaccination prep room. Holding the #Covid19 #vaccination record card you will receive after the first dose. The process of delivering these shots will become increasingly important once other drug manufacturers bring their COVID-19 vaccines to market. Frontline medical workers began receiving the shots this week, and on Wednesday that extended to long-term care residents.

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – Occasions around South Florida paid tribute to the victims on the 19th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. In Southwest Miami-Dade, the lives of those lost during 9/11 became part of a Salute to Healthcare workers sky dive by The Black Daggers, members of the Army Special Operations Command Parachute Demonstration Team. In Miami Lakes, 2,977 flags were planted at Picnic Park West overnight creating a blanket of red, white and blue. Miami Lakes Mayor Manny Cid hosted a 9/11 Flag Memorial Ceremony on Friday morning along with town officials, police and the city’s fire department. And, in Fort Lauderdale, the city’s Fire Rescue draped an American flag across Broward Boulevard and Southwest 2nd Avenue using one of the department’s firetrucks.

HOMESTEAD, Fla. The Intensive Care Unit at Homestead Hospital is at capacity with mostly patients who has tested positive for COVID-19, a spokeswoman for Baptist Health South Florida confirmed to ABC News reporter Victor Oquendo. Pipkin confirmed that the hospital is seeing much younger COVID-19 patients than earlier in the pandemic. On Tuesday, the number of admitted COVID-19 patients reported in Miami-Dade County reached 818. [Now] were seeing that we have to admit a lot more of them.Despite the surge, all South Florida hospitals have not yet reached capacity. According to state data, Miami-Dade has 23.9% of its hospital beds and 26.6% of its ICU beds available as of Tuesday afternoon.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Staff members at Baptist Health in Miami-Dade County are preparing for the coronavirus as the public health crisis around the world continues to raise fears. “Currently our task force has been active, and has been preparing for several weeks,” Baptist Health Medical Director Dr. John Braden said. Doctors and infectious disease experts gathered at Baptist Health Medical Center Wednesday to discuss the latest developments in the ongoing spread of the coronavirus. Baptist Health medical director gives update on how staff members are preparing for coronavirus. On Tuesday, the mayor of Miami-Dade County said local health workers are now trying to figure out what specific areas he visited.