{"id":349665,"date":"2026-07-23T09:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T09:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349665\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T09:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T09:43:12","slug":"florida-doh-charlotte-county-now-offering-school-physicals-wgcu-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349665\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida DOH-Charlotte County now offering school physicals | WGCU News"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year for the first time, the Florida Department of Health in Charlotte County will offer school and sports physicals and electrocardiograms.<\/p>\n

Students from prekindergarten through 12th grade who are making their initial entry into a Florida school must present a record of a school entry health examination completed within one year before enrollment.<\/p>\n

And starting this fall, Florida law requires EKG screenings for students participating in high school sports.<\/p>\n

Families can now get these services at the Charlotte County Department of Health.<\/p>\n

College entrance health screenings are also available.<\/p>\n

To make an appointment, call DOH-Charlotte at 941-624-7200. Physicals will be done at 1100 Loveland Blvd. Port Charlotte<\/a>.<\/p>\n

WGCU is your trusted source for news and information in Southwest Florida. We are a nonprofit public service, and your support is more critical than ever. Keep public media strong and\u00a0donate\u00a0<\/a>now. Thank you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This year for the first time, the Florida Department of Health in Charlotte County will offer school and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-349665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349665","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=349665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}