Thirty of the 73 hospitals in the Tampa Bay area do not comply with a new regulation aimed at making costs more transparent, and Lakeland Regional Health Medical Center is one of them, according to a nonprofit organization monitoring compliance.
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City Ponders $215 Million Deal to Let Lakeland Regional Health Prepay Its Lease
The Lakeland City Commission is considering permanently changing its financial agreement with Lakeland Regional Health, which leases its hospital campus from the city. Under a proposal city commissioners will consider on Monday, the hospital system would pay a lump sum of $215 million by Oct. 1 to cover the lease period through 2040 and thereafter […]
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Lakeland Regional Health Again Limiting Visitors
As it did early in the pandemic, Lakeland Regional Health is again reducing the number of visitors allowed at its hospital, citing an increase in local COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. The new rules take effect Monday.
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Lakeland Regional Health Participating in Study on Covid and Blood Clots
Lakeland Regional Health has joined a nationwide study seeking ways to prevent blood clots in COVID-19 patients, ABC Action News reports. The hospital is seeking participants age 40 and older who were diagnosed with the infection in the last 10 to 14 days but weren’t hospitalized and weren’t using a blood thinner. Source: ABC Action […]
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Lakeland Regional Gets $25K From AT&T for Protective Gear
Lakeland Regional Health was awarded $25,000 from AT&T’s charitable arm to help buy protective gear for its frontline workers.
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With 40 COVID-19 Patients in Its Beds So Far, Lakeland Regional Has Room for Many More, Official Says
With COVID-19 expected to peak in Polk County in a week or two, Lakeland Regional Health has plenty of capacity to add more patients, Dr. Daniel Haight told a teleconference gathering of community leaders today.
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LRH Plans Mental Health Facility, Expanded Services
Lakeland Regional Health is hoping to move quickly on a new behavioral health facility just south of the main hospital campus, expanding and centralizing services it says are integral to the mental health of the community.
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LRH Top Exec Thompson Retiring Next Year; Successor Named
Elaine C. Thompson, who has been the chief executive at Lakeland Regional Health since 2010, is retiring at the end of next year and will be replaced by Danielle Drummond, currently the hospital’s executive vice president and chief operating officer.
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Lakeland Regional Drops in U.S. News Ranking
New hospital rankings released by US News and World Report this morning contained mixed news for Lakeland Regional Health: The hospital dropped from 11th in Florida last year to 23rd this year, but it was lauded as highly performing in three areas.
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Reporter Clifford Parody explores the rise in heroin use in Polk, particularly in Lakeland, as drug users switch from pills, and a Lakeland ex-addict tells him, “I’ve seen people get shot over a dime bag.” Thirty years ago, A Lakeland family’s faith led surgeon Ben Carson to perform an operation that he considered hopeless but ultimately […]