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By Andrew Warfield
July 27, 2018

Cancer care collaborations benefit patients and providers

Lee Health joins other Southwest Florida health care systems in forming cancer care collaborations

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By Grier Ferguson
July 13, 2018

Growing region prepares for two new competing hospitals

Two planned hospitals in south Sarasota County — Sarasota Memorial Hospital's Laurel Road hospital and Venice Regional Bayfront Health's replacement hospital — will mean construction and competition in the years ahead. The leaders involved talk specifics.

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By Grier Ferguson
June 22, 2018

Area company heads up development of potential solution for opioid crisis

Sarasota's Robrady, working in tandem with physician assistant Afton Heitzenrater and others, is moving forward with a possible solution to the opioid crisis.

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By Ted Carter
May 11, 2018

Health care giant takes over transplant program

Lee Health's Kidney Transplant Institute at Gulf Coast Medical Center is a community service — but officials don't expect a moneymaker.

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By Mark Gordon
October 27, 2017

Doing Well

An $83 million organization, facing competitive threats and regulatory uncertainty, fights forward. Its goal: Get bigger and get better.

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By Jean Gruss
September 1, 2017

Global Ambition

NeoGenomics aims to be the world's leading cancer-testing company. It's starting with its first laboratory outside the U.S. — in Switzerland.

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By Business Observer Staff
August 18, 2017

School's In

As the demand for more nurses increases in Florida and nationwide, one area campus gains recognition for its quality education programs. How will it continue to meet the demand?

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By Mark Gordon
August 11, 2017

'Long Haul'

Companies that seek an edge in Florida's budding medical marijuana industry need fortitude, and lots of financing — for starters. Will AltMed rise to the top?