Besides the medical conditions that send people to the hospital in the first place, there are many other things big and small to endure as a patient: bedpans, gowns that never seem to conceal everything in back, no home cooking, boredom and limited TV options. ...more

February 11, 2008

To overcome the problem of patient isolation, Morton Plant Mease Health Care recently set up a page on its Web site. Through it friends and family can send e-mails to inpatients at: Morton Plant North Bay Hospital, New Port Richey; Mease Countryside Hospital, Safety Harbor; Mease Dunedin Hospital, Dunedin; Morton Plant Hospital, Clearwater; and the Madonna Ptak Morton Plant Rehab Center, Clearwater. ...more

February 9, 2008

This tiny community, dwarfed by the Withlacoochee State Forest that surrounds it, might have been run over by development by now, like many of Florida's rural outposts, except for a quirk of fate. ...more

December 26, 2007