UF HEALTH JACKSONVILLE

UF Health Jacksonville’s trauma unit will be in the spotlight this weekend.

A man was hospitalized in life-threatening condition after a shooting Tuesday morning in the Hogan’s Creek area near UF Health Jacksonville, police said.

The center opened in 1992 and its team of health care professionals have helped countless people avoid needless trips to the hospital.

A man was found shot Tuesday night on Cleveland Street, which is less than a mile from UF Health Jacksonville, but he died at the hospital, police said.

The U.S. on Wednesday authorized updated COVID-19 boosters for children as young as 5

A Jacksonville nurse was arrested and accused of stealing medication from an employer for a second time.

A woman died and a man was hospitalized in critical condition after a shooting Monday in the Brentwood area, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said.

One year ago Sunday, UF Health Jacksonville lost a beloved leader when CEO Dr. Leon Haley died in a WaveRunner accident in South Florida.

There are currently more than 1,800 cases across the U.S., according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Governor Ron DeSantis was in Jacksonville Monday morning to help honor a legacy.

A student at commercial diving school CDA Technical Institute drowned Thursday in the Trout River while doing low visibility underwater welding training, authorities said.

The News4JAX I-TEAM has found patients can be charged up to $34,000 in fees for just being brought to a trauma center after a traumatic injury, and data shows the rate of trauma alerts, which trigger these fees, is growing faster than Florida population, elderly population, and violent crime rate.

The message from health leaders in Northeast Florida on Friday: COVID-19 cases continue to trend down.

Jacksonville police said Friday afternoon that they were investigating a shooting in the Lake Forest neighborhood.

After spending six months in the hospital with COVID-19, a 27-year-old man walked out of UF Health Jacksonville on Tuesday with his father by his side.

Many of you have reached out asking the I-TEAM for help after a ransomware attack knocked out the payroll systems used by several local businesses.

The News4JAX I-TEAM is hearing from more UF Health Jacksonville employees who are tired of waiting for IOUs after a ransomware attack.

It’s being called “flurona” — a combination of the flu and coronavirus all at once.

COVID-19 cases continue to hit all-time highs across the country ahead of New Year’s Eve.

UF Health Jacksonville had considered no longer ordering the Regeneron monoclonal antibody treatment but with the new numbers from the CDC, they backed off that decision and will continue to offer Regeneron treatment, Neilsen said.

Tuesday marks a year since the former CEO of UF Health Jacksonville, the late Dr. Leon Haley Jr., rolled up his sleeve and got the first COVID-19 vaccine in the city.

There are now more than 40 cases of the omicron variant in the U.S., including in Florida and Georgia.

News4JAX is looking at how Jacksonville is preparing for another potential coronavirus surge.

CMN Hospitals is hosting the 26th Annual Festival of Lights 5K on Sat. Dec. 4 in San Marco Square. This unique, holiday-themed race will raise vital funding for the pediatric programs at UF Health Jacksonville and Wolfson Children’s Hospital.

The announcement made on Tuesday comes during Transgender Awareness Week.

There are a couple of melatonin diffusers on the market, but News4Jax brought to a doctor one that stood out because of its large presence on social media.

Many people are getting ready for the holiday season, and as travel is expected to pick up at the end of next week, roughly 20 states across the country are seeing an upward trend in the number of new COVID-19 cases.

A 36-year-old firefighter died after he collapsed while trying to rescue the driver of a U-Haul truck that struck a utility pole early Thursday morning.

The Florida Highway Patrol on Tuesday released videos and photos of a vehicle sought in connection with a crash that killed a Jacksonville father.

Any day now, the Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11.

A 70-year-old great-grandmother was arrested Monday after she refused to leave her daughter’s bedside at UF Health North after visitation hours ended, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.

Johnson & Johnson announced Tuesday that a booster of its one-shot COVID-19 vaccine provides a stronger immune response months after people receive a first dose.

A community memorial service was hosted in Jacksonville Friday for Dr. Leon Haley Jr., the CEO UF Health Jacksonville who died in a WaveRunner accident in South Florida in July.

Hospitals across the country are dealing with a large number of COVID-19 patients, and the situation is especially difficult in New Orleans where Hurricane Ida left power outages.

In the past two weeks, the number of new patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Jacksonville has continued to drop. The decline is not dramatic, and Florida appears to continue to lead the nation in new cases.

"Emergency rooms were packed the past week. They were filled with people waiting for hours," one patient outside UF Health said Friday.

News4Jax visited the COVID-19 ward at UF Health Jacksonville on Friday and watched as nurses and care works went from patient to patient, doing what they could to help.

News4Jax visited the COVID-19 ward at UF Health Jacksonville on Friday and met Maria Omerkov, one of many patients in the Springfield facility.

Jacksonville hospitals are preparing for more COVID-19 cases, with some requesting ventilators.

As students begin to return to school, staff at local hospitals are expecting another surge in COVID-19 cases.

The late Doctor Leon Haley was honored by President Joe Biden, according to a statement by Haley’s son, Grant.

Three separate shootings in Jacksonville in just over six hours left four people injured, police said.

Coworkers and friends described Hailey as optimistic, upbeat and fun.

On Thursday, UF Health Jacksonville said there was more than one COVID-19 death each day last month and an average of three each day so far this month. Baptist Health says they've had 2½ deaths each day for the last six weeks.

The much more contagious delta variant of the coronavirus continues to rage across Florida, sending another 526 people to the hospital and increasing the state’s record-setting total of hospitalizations to 12,041.

Gov. Ron DeSantis touted Florida’s COVID-19 response Tuesday, even as the state set a record for the number of people hospitalized with the illness for the third day in a row.

Linda R. Edwards will serve as dean of the UF College of Medicine-Jacksonville for a one-year term, and the university will launch a national search to replace Dr. Leon L. Haley Jr., according to a UF Health news release.

A 29-year-old man is charged with aggravated assault after a stabbing Sunday in Glynn County, police said.

UF Health Jacksonville CEO Dr. Leon Haley Jr. was honored Saturday with a funeral service in Pittsburgh, a week after a fatal WaveRunner accident in Palm Beach County.

Funeral arrangements have been made for UF Health Jacksonville CEO Dr. Leon Haley Jr.

COVID-19 cases tripled in the U.S. over two weeks amid an onslaught of vaccine misinformation that is straining hospitals, exhausting doctors and pushing clergy into the fray. “Our staff, they are frustrated," said Chad Neilsen, director of infection prevention at UF Health Jacksonville, which is canceling elective surgeries and procedures after the number of mostly unvaccinated COVID-19 inpatients at its two campuses jumped to 134, up from a low of 16 in mid-May. Across the U.S., the seven-day rolling average for daily new cases in the U.S. rose over the past two weeks to more than 37,000 on Tuesday, up from less than 13,700 on July 6, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.