| 4/20/2021
Florida hospitals face a cash crunch from COVID
During the first week of March in 2020, Sarasota Memorial Hospital was treating a record number of patients, and hospital leaders were trying to figure out where to park the dozens of excess cars. The patient traffic wasn’t COVID-related — it was “just normal hospital visits or health care visits,” recalls David Verinder, president and CEO of Sarasota Memorial Health Care System — but by month’s end, as the COVID-19 pandemic began to sweep through the nation, the campus looked more like a ghost town. “Volumes dropped through the floor,” he says. [Source: Florida Trend]