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The hospital board’s role is to select the CEO and periodically evaluate his/her performance; review and approve the hospital system’s strategic plan and annual capital and operating budgets; and provide feedback to the CEO on our perspective of the community healthcare needs.
The Sarasota County collective good. Since the hospital system charter is for service to the county, that must be our focus. And I strongly support the service to all my neighbors.
I believe my experience as a former corporate executive and hospital and not-for-profit board member brings a unique set of demonstrated skills to bear on the board deliberations and oversight of the executive management team.
I believe the hospital system should continue to expand access to its world-class healthcare to all residents of Sarasota County.
To this end it should continue its work in building a replacement mental health hospital and adding additional hospital beds and an expanded emergency care facilities at its Venice hospital and begin the planning and design work for a hospital in North Port.
All of these improvements and expansion of care must be completed without any deterioration in the quality of care.
Continuing to seek more efficient and effective ways to bring healthcare services to the underserved population.
Past successful initiatives are the Newtown family medicine office, the community healthcare clinic and the standalone ER in North Port.
My incumbent SMH Board experience since 2013; my previous not-for-profit and hospital board experience; my corporate executive experience, including my 20-plus years of experience in executive compensation and capital and operating budget management.
My experience noted above. Additionally, with the hospital spending in excess of $200 million a year on charity care and receiving about $90 million in tax revenues, the stewardship experience is evident.
I believe SMH should continue to address the needs of the working poor and underprivileged children through its strong financial performance and community focused leadership.
Additionally, SMH should also focus its efforts to expand its services into underserved areas of Sarasota County.
I believe that all residents of Sarasota should have access to basic healthcare services.
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