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On Wednesday morning, during the hospital board’s Governance Effectiveness Committee meeting, Heath Care System CEO David Verinder announced that the Doctors Gardens Association, a condominium board staffed entirely with top hospital leaders, had voted to return money that it had collected from the hospital and previously planned to donate to a PAC.
The original reason the condo association charged the hospital $265,833 in late 2019 was to make capital improvements to the Doctors Gardens building, an aging office complex on Sarasota Memorial’s campus.
But the Doctors Gardens board never spent the money and voted to instead donate it all to a PAC that, in the past, has helped hospital board members win reelection and donated to a variety of political causes.
1 month ago Share When a member of the Sarasota Hospital Board challenged the majority, he became persona-non-grata. The board’s response raises curiosity: Is it a board for taxpayers or management?
When you think about all the wonderful and valuable community assets in Greater Sarasota and Bradenton, you would probably find universal agreement that Sarasota Memorial Healthcare System is among the top three on the list. For sure among the top five.
And likewise, there would be widespread agreement that under the directions, first, of former CEO Gwen MacKenzie and for the past six years, in particular, CEO David Verinder, Sarasota Memorial Hospital and its affiliates have matured into the top tier of Florida’s best-run health care institutions, as well as in many instances in the nation.