Bad Florida Emergency Care and Unemployment Reports

Florida blames its troubled unemployment website entirely on vendor; feds heading here to help
Miami Herald

TALLAHASSEE -- Three months after its debut, Florida’s $63 million unemployment benefits website is showing signs of improvement but falls far short of adequately serving claimants who depend on it, state officials testified Wednesday before a Senate panel.

“The rollout of the new computer system has not gone as hoped or as promised by the vendor,” said Jesse Panuccio, executive director of the Department of Economic Opportunity. “And no one is more disappointed or frustrated about that than the hardworking staff at DEO.”

Panuccio gave no indication of when the CONNECT website will be fixed or who will resolve problems that have delayed the maximum $275 weekly payments for thousands of claimants since mid October.
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Florida Ranks Near Bottom of the Nation for Access to Emergency Care
By American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)
Published: Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16, 2014 -- What are my state's grades? Find them at www.emreportcard.org

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Florida received an overall C-, ranking 27th overall in the 2014 American College of Emergency Physicians' state-by-state report card on America's emergency care environment ("Report Card"). The state received an F in the category of Access to Emergency Care, ranking it 49th in the nation.
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