Ascension St. Vincent’s hosted its Medical Mission at Home event Saturday at the Prime Osborn Convention Center, offering free health and wellness services to uninsured and underserved members of the Jacksonville community.

As February closes out American Heart Month, patients and doctors gathered at Ascension St. Vincent’s Riverside for a heart patient reunion aimed at celebrating lives saved and treatments that restored them.

If your goal is to eat healthier, there are simple, affordable ways to build healthy habits that really stick.

Cardiologists at Ascension St. Vincent’s are celebrating a transformative way they are treating patients with atrial fibrillation (a-fib).

A Jacksonville man who has been battling with a flesh-eating bacteria for weeks said he believes he was discharged from the hospital early because he does not have insurance.

Ascension St. Vincent’s is inviting the community out to the Regency Square Mall on Saturday from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. for a free medical clinic.

Volunteers with Ascension St. Vincent's prepared 1,100 hot meals to be delivered to local seniors who might not otherwise have a Thanksgiving dinner.

St. Vincent’s Southside, Riverside, and Clay County locations received excellent grades in hospital safety for fall 2024, ranking them 15th in the country.

Ascension St. Vincent’s is partnering with Feeding Northeast Florida to host a free food distribution on Nov. 16 in Jacksonville.

Medical simulations help doctors and nurses prepare for different situations they’ll face. For the best training, they need to be as real as possible. One woman behind the scenes is using her creativity and a little bit of science to make that happen.

Luckily, no one was hurt when a parking garage at Ascension St. Vincent’s hospital in Riverside partially collapsed last month.

When a portion of the parking garage at Ascension St. Vincent’s collapsed this week in Riverside, it brought to light the lack of inspections required for garages across Jacksonville.

There is still no word on what caused a parking garage on the campus of Ascension St. Vincent’s to partially collapse this week, and the buildings around it are still condemned and likely will be for weeks to come.

One thing that was speculated in the hours after the collapse was whether water damage deteriorated concrete and the rebar embedded in it. But one engineer said water damage is not the only potential cause.

According to the lawsuits, the doctor’s impairment was obvious yet the hospital didn’t stop him from operating.

A top executive for Ascension St. Vincent’s must testify at a deposition as the health system defends hundreds of medical malpractice lawsuits focused on a former orthopedic surgeon at their Riverside hospital.

Dr. Oza says this new way of treating AFib patients is a breath of fresh air when other methods like ablations do not work on patients like Preis.

Joining a growing number of health systems nationwide, Ascension announced on Tuesday that it will require COVID-19 vaccinations for its associates, whether they care for patients or not.

GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. – Ascension St. Vincent’s will be holding a COVID-19 vaccination event for Clay County residents age 65 and older from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday at the Clay County Fairgrounds, the county announced Thursday. Ascension St. Vincent’s said it expects approximately 2,500 vaccinations will be administered. Message from Ascension St. Vincent's: Ascension St. Vincent's is holding a COVID-19... Posted by Clay County, FL Government on Thursday, January 14, 2021Those with appointments are asked to wear a mask to while inside the fairgrounds. Here’s what Ascension St. Vincent’s said people can expect once they arrive:Patients will check in, providing the necessary information and signing required consent forms. Clay County Emergency Management will make an announcement on Wednesday, January 20 with the latest update on the Clay County allotment of vaccines from the Florida Division of Emergency Management.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Hundreds of frontline health care workers at Ascension St. Vincent’s in Riverside received Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine Thursday morning. Roughly 500 doses of COVID-19 are being administered to healthcare workers in Ascension St. Vincent’s Hospital and the message on Thursday was one of hope. Ascension St. Vincent’s in Jacksonville is moving forward with Pfizer to vaccinate its front-line staff today. 500 healthcare workers set to get the #CovidVaccine. After getting the first dose of the shot, healthcare workers stayed for 15 minutes for observation.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The first-ever drive-thru testing site for coronavirus will be shutting down on Friday, Sept. 25, 2020. The community is starting to see record lows in testing rates since March 13 when Ascension Medical Group St. Vincent’s first opened their parking lots to the public. The hospital has conducted nearly 13,000 drive-thru tests so far. Testing will still be available at Ascension St. Vincent’s urgent care offices and many other government-run and commercial sites around Northeast Florida. Since March, just over 5 million COVID-19 tests have been conducted in Florida and identified 669,684 people with the virus.

Baptist Medical Center Beaches patients were transferred Monday to Baptist Medical Center South and Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville in downtown ahead of Hurricane Dorian. Nassau County Baptist Medical Center informed Nassau County Emergency Management officials the hospital would close at 3 p.m. Monday. Baptist's emergency centers at Baptist Jacksonville, Baptist South, Wolfson Children's Hospital, Town Center, Baptist Clay and Baptist North remained open as of Monday. Ascension St. Vincent's Clay County, Ascension St. Vincent's Riverside, and Ascension St. Vincent's Southside will be closed to visitors only, beginning at 5 p.m. Tuesday, until the storm has passed. At St. Vincent's Clay County and St. Vincent's Southside, elective surgeries and procedures from Tuesday at 1 p.m. through Wednesday will be canceled and rescheduled.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - There are probably a few last-minute items you haven't gotten to on your back-to-school checklist. We know how busy life can be and how stressful the back-to-school rush is. One thing that might help: All Ascension St. Vincent's urgent care locations are offering $20 sports physical for students through Aug. 31. You can make an appointment online or just grab your kids and walk in. To find a participating location near you in Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia, click here.