{"id":369224,"date":"2026-08-12T09:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/369224\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T09:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:46:15","slug":"governor-desantis-announces-funding-towards-multiple-north-central-florida-rural-healthcare-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/369224\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor DeSantis announces funding towards multiple North Central Florida rural healthcare programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; The state is putting nearly $200 million toward rural healthcare programs, including in North Central Florida. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Tuesday, Governor Ron DeSantis announced the funding, which will go toward dozens of programs in Florida. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Two programs at Lake Butler Hospital will split $7 million. North Florida Pediatrics in Lake City gets $6 million, and the Trenton Medical Center will receive $400,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">TRENDING: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/08\/11\/marion-county-resident-dead-after-contracting-bacterial-infection\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marion County resident dead after contracting \u2018flesh-eating bacteria\u2019 infection<\/a><\/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) &#8211; The state is putting nearly $200 million toward rural healthcare programs, including in North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2683,28,30,29,14851,149484,10116,149485,4735,41235],"class_list":["post-369224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-desantis","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-funding","tag-healthcare-programs","tag-hospitals","tag-medical-centers","tag-ncfl","tag-rural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369224","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=369224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}