Sarasota shines in area hospital rankings (Source: WWSB) By ABC7 Staff | April 30, 2021 at 2:23 PM EDT - Updated April 30 at 2:23 PM
SARASOTA, Fla. (North Port Sun) - Area hospitals have gotten good grades in new rankings released this week by The Leapfrog Group.
Our coverage partners from the North Port Sun are reporting four hospitals in Sarasota County received As, three hospitals in Manatee County got Bs and Cs, and two hospitals in Charlotte County received Cs in the latest safety ratings from the Leapfrog Group.
Grades are based on two sets of standards: outcome measures, which include “errors, accidents and injuries that this hospital has publicly reported,” and process measures, which include “the management structures and procedures a hospital has in place to protect patients from errors, accidents and injuries,” the report states.
SARASOTA – Florida Blue and Sarasota Memorial Health Care System are at a crossroads in contract negotiations that could ultimately result in Sarasota County’s public hospital and doctors affiliated with First Physicians Group becoming out-of-network providers.
Florida Blue sent letters to more than 15,000 members in the Sarasota-Manatee County area Tuesday, alerting them that their contract with Sarasota Memorial will technically end April 1.
On Wednesday, both sides indicated that the contract may be extended 90 days, through the end of June, based on what is currently, at least according to Sarasota Memorial, a verbal agreement.
Florida Blue spokeswoman Christie DeNave characterized negotiations as an ongoing discussion.
VENICE – Venice Regional Bayfront Health has contracted with Barry Seidel at American Property Group of Sarasota Inc. to sell 50-plus acres it owns at 2665 East Venice Avenue that had been eyed as a new hospital site.
The land is being listed at $12.99 million, and though it is currently zoned OPI, or office-professional and institutional, the new buyer will have to petition Sarasota County to change it back to residential zoning before development.
“I see it being rezoned again and probably to the delight of the neighborhood,” Seidel said.
When the Sarasota County Commission voted in January 2019 to change the zoning of the parcel in anticipation of Venice Regional building a 210-bed hospital, it did so with the caveat that if a hospital wasn’t built, it should revert to residential use.
DeSantis says feds’ shift vindicates his call to get vaccines to seniors first
Christine Sexton, Reporter, News Service of Florida
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DeSantis: Nearly 350,000 Florida seniors have received COVID-19 vaccine
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday his decision to steer highly sought-after COVID-19 vaccines to people 65 and older has been vindicated by a Trump administration announcement that it will do the same.
But the Trump administration’s decision to use supplies it has held in reserve to vaccinate more people has some Florida hospitals worried.
“There’s concerns here about the ability for us to be able to get our complete supply for our second doses, given they are going to distribute the entire vaccine supply,” a Venice Regional Bayfront Health official, who did not identify herself, said Tuesday morning on a hospital-industry phone call with Florida Department of Health Secretary Scott Rivkees and Agency for Health Care Administr
Gov. Ron DeSantis said his decision to buck original federal guidelines ultimately proved correct, although concerns remain from hospital officials around the state.