Good News:
$191,752,556 – the amount the District collected in
local property taxes which easily offset its investment losses

Source: North Broward Hospital District 2010 Budget

 
PS: Concerning My Agenda - 

   Several readers have inquired about my agenda.
   I have none, other than doing what I was trained to do as a journalist.
   Also, at 71, I'm retired and “comfortable.”
   So nobody's paying me.
   And as to my on-going and critical focus on the tax-supported North Broward Hospital District?
   First, I suppose, its because of the District's lengthy history of sleazoid politics, shady dealings and bureaucratic bullshit.
   Again, as a life-long Jeffersonian Democrat, I am outraged by the District's use of tax dollars to engage in unfair (and highly successful) competition with its private healthcare counterparts,
   Also, while the District's keeps its annual budgets like a Mafia accountant keeps his books,   I've learned how to follow the District's shifting line items and mystery entries from one year to the next... thanks to the kindness of a number of strangers.
   Plus I am truly fascinated by how well (and openly) run the tax-funded South Broward Hospital District (Memorial Healthcare) is compared to the North District aka Broward Health.
   And finally, I have little trust and less respect for several members of the North District's seven-member Board of Commissioners appointed by the Governor … along with an equal amount of mistrust for a number of the District's highly over-paid key administrators
   Oh yes.
  Recent polls show Floridians rate health care as their number one concern.
  At the same time the local news media pay little or no attention to the doings of the North Broward Hospital District with its:
     - Status as the nation's fifth largest public hospital system
     -  $3.7 billion annual budget
     -  117,000-plus inpatient admissions
     -  One million-plus outpatient visits a year
     -  7,500 employees
     -  And incestuous network of well-paid lobbyists
     -  Millions of dollars spent on shady outsourced contracts negotiated far from the public's eye.