New hospital chooses founding president

SARASOTA — Longtime Florida health care and hospital executive Sharon Roush has been named the founding president of one of the newest hospitals in the region,  Sarasota Memorial Hospital – Laurel Road.

The 65-acre medical campus and hospital is being built to serve the Venice and south Sarasota County community. It will take about three years to build the new hospital, which will have 90 acute-care beds, 20 beds for observation patients and an emergency care center with 25 treatment rooms, according to a statement.