Economic Forecast: Amid challenges of pandemic, health care system looks ahead to new hospital

In the year ahead, SMH will also open a new cancer institute at its main campus in Sarasota.

  • By Grier Ferguson
  • | 6:00 a.m. January 1, 2021
Courtesy. David Verinder, president and CEO of Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, says the health system has doubled in size in terms of employees, revenue and volume of patients over the last five years.
Courtesy. David Verinder, president and CEO of Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, says the health system has doubled in size in terms of employees, revenue and volume of patients over the last five years.
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Organization: This year, the first week of March was the busiest week in the 95-year history of Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, which operates an 839-bed flagship hospital and has some 7,000 staff members.

 

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