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As Hurricane Ian approaches Southwest Florida, state officials said Tuesday that "100 percent" of nursing homes and assisted living facilities are in compliance with a state requirement that they have backup power generators and fuel.
The Broward State Attorney's Office has dropped criminal charges against three of four nurses who had been accused in the deaths of several patients at a Hollywood Hills nursing home following Hurricane Irma.
The owner of a West Palm Beach nursing home will pay $1.75 million to settle claims that it improperly diverted doses of COVID-19 vaccine to members of its board of directors and donors.
A federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released Wednesday shows the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have become less effective in keeping nursing-home residents safe as the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus has spread and that booster shots might be needed.
As COVID-19 cases continue to surge in Florida, the White House announced Wednesday that nursing homes that rely on Medicaid and Medicare funding must require their staff members to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.
Jackson Health System has confirmed seven residents in one of its nursing homes have tested positive for COVID-19. It is the Jackson Memorial Long-Term Care Center, one of two nursing homes operated by Jackson Health, Miami-Dade's public hospital system.
The Broward State Attorney's Office filed criminal charges on Monday against four former staffers of a Hollywood Hills nursing home where several residents died after the air conditioning system failed following Hurricane Irma on September 2017.
Arrest warrants have been issued against four employees of the Hollywood Hills nursing home, accusing them of playing a role in the deaths of a dozen residents after Hurricane Irma knocked out the air conditioning for the facility, defense attorneys for the workers told CBS Miami.
Offering extensive details of what she described as a "catastrophe," an administrative law judge has backed a state decision to revoke the license of a Broward County nursing home where residents died after Hurricane Irma.
Florida lawmakers are trying to ensure that a power outage will not cost anyone their life, as was the case in a South Florida nursing home following Hurricane Irma.
A hearing is underway in Fort Lauderdale to determine if the license for the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills should be permanently revoked.
At least 20 people are injured after a nursing home near Philadelphia burst into flames overnight.
A mandate by Governor Rick Scott that all nursing homes and assisted living facilities in the state have generators to power air conditions has survived its first court battle.
A 12th person linked to the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills died Thursday evening.
In the days after multiple patients died at the rehabilitation Center of Hollywood Hills, crime scene investigators carried out a search warrant at the facility revealing just what detectives were looking into during their investigation.
Two days since the nursing home tragedy, the first lawsuit has been filed.
Florida Governor Rick Scott, the Florida Department of Health and Florida Power and Light are all refuting claims from a Florida nursing home, where eight people died in the sweltering hot building, that they didn't do enough to help after the storm knocked out power.
The manager of a Hollywood Hills nursing home where eight people died following Hurricane Irma has a history of health-care fraud accusations.
A Hollywood nursing home where six residents died Wednesday is rated "below average" in a federal scorecard that includes information about issues such as inspections, staffing and quality of care.
The owner of a nursing home that housed 60 residents which had to be rescued after food ran out and trash piled up has pleaded guilty to stealing $667,000 from Medicaid then spending it on strippers and gambling among other things.
A 26-year-old former nursing home employee in Ohio was arrested after she reportedly danced provocatively for a 100-year-old resident.
The ban on adding new nursing-home beds is being lifted thanks to backing of state regulators. On Monday they approved the proposal for 2,600 beds in 25 counties.
Attorneys for around 200 disabled children in nursing homes will ask a federal judge to give class-action status to a lawsuit alleging the state is putting the children in nursing homes unnecessarily and cutting services for their care at home.
A nursing home patient has confessed that he murdered his 73-year-old roommate at a Palmetto Bay nursing home, according to Miami-Dade Police.
The janitor of a Southwest Miami-Dade Nursing center died after being stabbed by a visitor at the facility Thursday.
The mysterious woman who allegedly lured dozens of migrants on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' flights to Martha's Vineyard from San Antonio has been identified by several media outlets as Perla H. Huerta, a former combat medic and U.S. Army counterintelligence agent living in Tampa.
Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz told a prosecution psychiatrist he began contemplating a mass murder during middle school, doing extensive research on earlier killers to learn their methods and mistakes to shape his own plans, video played at his penalty trial showed Monday.
He is asking for punitive damages of $475 million.
Miami's Florida Task Force Two was one of the first teams to have boots on the ground after Hurricane Ian ripped through southwest Florida.
Days after the skies cleared and the winds died down in Florida, Hurricane Ian's effects persisted Monday, as people faced another week without power and others were being rescued from homes inundated with lingering floodwaters.
The mysterious woman who allegedly lured dozens of migrants on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' flights to Martha's Vineyard from San Antonio has been identified by several media outlets as Perla H. Huerta, a former combat medic and U.S. Army counterintelligence agent living in Tampa.
Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz told a prosecution psychiatrist he began contemplating a mass murder during middle school, doing extensive research on earlier killers to learn their methods and mistakes to shape his own plans, video played at his penalty trial showed Monday.
He is asking for punitive damages of $475 million.
Miami's Florida Task Force Two was one of the first teams to have boots on the ground after Hurricane Ian ripped through southwest Florida.
Days after the skies cleared and the winds died down in Florida, Hurricane Ian's effects persisted Monday, as people faced another week without power and others were being rescued from homes inundated with lingering floodwaters.
Here are ways you can help those affected by the storm.
A major-disaster declaration that President Joe Biden issued early Thursday will be expanded to more areas as Florida tries to recover from Hurricane Ian, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Friday.
Gov. Ron DeSantis said millions of Floridians will face power outages over the next two days as monstrous Hurricane Ian barrels through the state.
As Hurricane Ian approaches Southwest Florida, state officials said Tuesday that "100 percent" of nursing homes and assisted living facilities are in compliance with a state requirement that they have backup power generators and fuel.
Pete Antonacci, a political fix-it man who garnered bipartisan praise during a career in public service that spanned more than three decades, died of a heart attack Friday afternoon.
He is asking for punitive damages of $475 million.
One of the cases involves Nohemi Gonzalez, a 23-year-old U.S. citizen killed in Paris in the 2015 ISIS attacks.
Brazilians voted Sunday in a highly polarized election that could determine if the country returns a leftist to the helm of the world's fourth-largest democracy or keeps the far-right incumbent in office for another four years.
Jim focuses this week's program on the health of homeowner insurance in Florida including the ability or inability of insurance companies to weather Hurricane Ian's destruction.
Jimmy Carter, already the longest-living U.S. president in history, turned 98 on Saturday, celebrating with family and friends in Plains, the tiny Georgia town where he and his wife, 95-year-old Rosalynn, were born in the years between World War I and the Great Depression.
The state average Monday was $3.22 per gallon
Gasoline and oil futures prices plunged 7% last week
On Sunday, Florida gas prices averaged $3.42 per gallon.
Pump prices have largely declined throughout the summer
Contractors have launched an appeal in a legal battle about part of a new Florida property insurance law.
Tua Tagovailoa was taken to University of Cincinnati Medical Center for further evaluation after sustaining head and neck injuries.
As September marks Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, we're sharing the story of a Broward County girl who beat cancer not once - but twice.
Masking is now urged only in communities seeing "high" transmission of the virus.
The third week of September is known as Asthma Peak Week, and that is because it's a week where doctors often see the most asthma attacks in the country.
The BA.5 variant from the summer wave of cases has now fallen to 81.3% of new infections.
Fiona severely damaged the fragile power grid
When local officials called for help from the "cavalry" in the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew, they were looking for federal help.
CBS4's Neighbors 4 Neighbors and a viewer are stepping up to help a family for the holiday after a blaze ripped through their apartment.
Time is running out for you to open your heart and help a family in need this holiday season. Only 16 families left before Monday's deadline for the Neighbors 4 Neighbors Adopt A Family for the Holidays program.
A South Florida family who lost everything when a fire destroyed their Miami home, is thankful for the generous support of the South Florida community in an effort to get them back on their feet.
Jim focuses this week's program on the health of homeowner insurance in Florida including the ability or inability of insurance companies to weather Hurricane Ian's destruction.
Jim sits down for a special half-hour with Congressman Ted Deutch who in a few days will be leaving Congress after 12 years of serving South Florida on Capitol Hill.
Jim takes a deep dive into just-released disturbing data from the Anti-Defamation League.
Jim discusses what is behind the DeSantis move to fly dozens of migrants to Martha's Vineyard.
Jim sits down with the Miami-Dade County Mayor to talk all things budget.
An audience of twins competes for double the prizes since Armitage and Revord play twins on "Young Sheldon."
Amanda Warren stars as the newly promoted boss of the 74th precinct in a working class Brooklyn neighborhood in the midst of social upheaval.
Academy Award-winner Marcia Gay Harden and Skylar Astin star as razor-sharp, meticulous attorney Margaret Wright and Todd, her talented but scruffy, aimless son whom she hires as her law firm's in-house investigator, on the series premiere of the new CBS Original drama.
Coolio, born Artis Leon Ivey Jr., the Compton-based rapper known for "Gangsta's Paradise," and other 90s hip-hop anthems died at 59 on Wednesday.
A restitution order that was still being finalized is meant to cover the cost of treatment for herpes and psychotherapy.