Hospitals and other health care facilities on Florida’s Gulf Coast — still reeling from Hurricane Helene — are now revving up for Hurricane Milton. The system, which is shaping up to be one of the most powerful to hit the region in years,

HCA Florida Healthcare, which operates dozens of hospitals along the path of Hurricane Milton, released this list on the statuses of hospitals in Tampa Bay and beyond. T The following medical centers are not open,

As part of the shutdown, 28 Cape Canaveral Hospital patients were safely re-admitted to other Health First hospitals in Brevard.

As Hurricane Milton barreled toward the west coast of Florida, hospitals in its path were making ready. Milton is projected to make landfall a bit south of the Tampa area late Wednesday night. Long-term care facilities in counties where mandatory evacuations have been issued have taken their patients elsewhere,