Four hospitals treating kids with cancer are getting $30 million in state funding, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced.

“I know that that’s going to go a long way,” DeSantis said at a news conference Monday in Jacksonville. “This is really going to make a difference.”

The four hospitals that will each receive $7.5 million are: St. Petersburg’s Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital , Miami’s Nicklaus Children’s Hospital System , Jacksonville’s Wolfson Children’s Hospital and Orlando’s Nemours Children’s Hospital .

The $30 million will be a game-changer for Florida’s hospitals, said Dr. Mark Toney , Wolfson’s vice president of medical affairs.

Although Florida is the nation’s third-largest state for children, we still lack a Top 25 pediatric cancer program. Too many f

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