{"id":236651,"date":"2026-04-18T07:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T07:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/236651\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T07:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T07:07:17","slug":"he-truly-brought-frc-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/236651\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He truly brought FRC to life\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) \u2014 A UF Health doctor who helped hundreds of people through addiction recovery has died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">UF Health Florida Recovery Center announced the death of Dr. Scott Teitelbaum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1GnxipRbRR\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1GnxipRbRR\/\">on social media<\/a>. Teitelbaum died due to complications after surgery on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The doctor had been with Florida Recovery Center since its beginning and has coached many people through drug and alcohol addiction by sharing his own story of recovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dr William Hollifield will fill the role of interim medical director until a permanent replacement is found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Funeral services will be held Sunday at 1 p.m. at Forest Meadows Cemetery, 4100 N.W. 39th Ave, Gainesville. The service is open to the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In lieu of flowers, the family is <a href=\"https:\/\/giving.uff.ufl.edu\/...\/023155-uf-psychiatry...\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/giving.uff.ufl.edu\/...\/023155-uf-psychiatry...\/\">requesting donations<\/a> to continue to support his mission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-2\">\u201cHe truly brought FRC to life, and we will do what he would most want \u2013 to help those still struggling and provide a space for recovery.  FRC will continue to navigate this time in grief but move forward in helping those find recovery to honor what he knew to be true, Recovery Works.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) \u2014 A UF Health doctor who helped hundreds of people through addiction recovery has died.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[105300,105298,28,30,29,105299,105302,105301],"class_list":["post-236651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-addiction-recovery-gainesville","tag-dr-scott-teitelbaum","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-recovery-center","tag-forest-meadows-cemetery","tag-uf-health-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}