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Leon County seniors who currently receive hot meals at congregate meal locations are in for a treat. [Read more…] about Area Agency on Aging for North Florida, Inc. and Elder Care Services To Team Up with Leon County Restaurants to Serve “Meals of Love”
Scores of residents, some from as far as Alabama and Georgia, converged on Florida A&M University’s Bragg Memorial Stadium for the first weekend of walk-up COVID-19 testing. [Read more…] about Residents Flock To FAMU Bragg Stadium COVID-19 Testing Site Kick-Off
This week’s episode of Florida A&M University (FAMU) MMERI Forum Radio features an hour of conversation on cannabis as it relates to the justice system, the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) and its impact on minority communities. [Read more…] about FAMU MMERI Forum Radio and Videocast Feature Medical Marijuana and the Intersection between the Criminal Justice System and COVID-19
Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Companies have made a $400,000 donation to Feeding Florida in support of the charitable network’s 12 food banks. [Read more…] about Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Partners with Feeding Florida to Assist Food-Insecure Households
Florida A&M University’s Bragg Memorial Stadium have hosted many epic gridiron battles over the years. Beginning Saturday, April 25, Bragg will be the site of a walk-up COVID-19 testing site to assist Tallahassee’s Southside community in the fight against the pandemic. [Read more…] about FAMU’s Bragg Stadium Will Host COVID-19 Walk-up Testing Site Beginning Saturday
Hundreds of cars snaked through Florida A&M University’s Bragg Stadium parking lot Wednesday as families picked up food supplies from Second Harvest of the Big Bend. [Read more…] about More Than 1,100 Families Converge On FAMU For Second Harvest Food Distribution
With the COVID-19 global pandemic spreading across the country, a Florida firm has pioneered a new way for doctors to securely share all patient records electronically with their staff now working from home. [Read more…] about As nation battles COVID-19, Florida-based HIE Networks unveils new way for doctors to communicate life-saving information with staff at home
In response to the community’s shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), The University of Tampa is now making protective face shields for health care workers — including 100 shields going to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg — using the tools from its digital fabrication lab, or Fab Lab. [Read more…] about UT’s Fab Lab Makes Face Shields for Tampa’s Healthcare Workers
As a shortage of full face shields for healthcare workers grips the nation in the battle against COVID-19, the University of West Florida responded by asking one of the University’s direct support organizations to manufacture, manage and distribute 3D-printed full face shield supplies at its Sea3D Additive Manufacturing Laboratory in downtown Pensacola. [Read more…] about UWF manufacturing, distributing 3D-printed face shields for healthcare workers
Farm Share, one of Florida’s leading food nonprofits, today announced a partnership with transportation network Lyft to increase the distribution of food and supplies to food-insecure South Floridians during the coronavirus pandemic. [Read more…] about Lyft partners with Farm Share to provide in-need South Floridians without transportation access to food during the coronavirus pandemic
