Working on the most significant health care reform in a generation, Congresswoman Kathy Castor today discussed one of the major issues facing Florida: a shortage of physician residents. The Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act will increase the number of physician residency training positions in Tampa Bay area hospitals and in other communities facing resident shortages. Castor is working to include these measures in the overall health care reform package. Read more »

U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor and William S. Dalton, Ph.D., M.D., Center Director and CEO of Moffitt Cancer Center, are pleased to announce the awarding of more than $6 million to support cancer research at Moffitt drawn from funds authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed by Congress earlier this year. Read more »

U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor announced today that landmark health care reform legislation will include dramatic improvements in primary care and will include many of Castor’s initiatives. Castor announced today she has filed the Primary Care Volunteer Incentive Act, which is designed to encourage more medical students to enter primary care fields. Read more »

Today, Governor Charlie Crist will sign into law legislation that boosts Florida’s KidCare health care initiative after years of steep declines in enrollment caused by bureaucratic barriers and lack of investment. Read more »

With the goal of eliminating disparities in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor announced today that she has introduced a bill designed to ensure that the cancer diagnostic and follow-up tests that are offered to some are offered to all. The bill will require providers to report their practices to encourage doctors to offer adequate care for all, regardless of race, income or health insurance status. Read more »

Congresswoman Kathy Castor will meet with President Obama at the White House tomorrow to discuss critical health care and energy reform measures pending in the House Energy & Commerce Committee. Tomorrow’s meeting is expected to focus on ways to reform health care and to reshape how the United States uses, conserves and invests in energy. Castor and her Democratic colleagues on the House Energy & Commerce Committee have been invited to the meeting with President Obama as health care and energy legislation take shape. Read more »

“Congratulations and thank you to Sen. Nan Rich and Rep. Bill Galvano for all of their hard work to pass this critical KidCare expansion. Now all of the hard work we did in Congress to expand KidCare to an additional 4 million children will be meaningful for Florida’s children and families.” Read more »

Congresswoman Kathy Castor announced today that Tampa Bay area community health centers are receiving approximately $2.7 million through President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This money will preserve and create jobs in the health care industry and will enable Tampa area community health centers to see thousands more patients. Read more »

Congresswoman Kathy Castor said today that the University of South Florida’s initiative to bring electronic prescribing to the Tampa Bay area will bring much-needed and well-paying health care and information technology jobs to the region. “PaperFree Tampa Bay is exactly what was intended by the economic recovery plan,” Castor said. “It’s going to create the high-wage jobs of the future.” PaperFree Tampa Bay is a guaranteed job creator as intended by the Recovery Act, creating more than 130 in the Tampa Bay area. Read more »

Congresswoman Kathy Castor and Moffitt director William S. Dalton said today that the cancer and research institute is well-poised to bring hundreds of much-needed construction and health care jobs to the Tampa Bay area from the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act signed into law by President Obama on Tuesday. Read more »