Broward Health Weston
Socialized Medicine at Its Worst
It's not that administrators running the giant North Broward Hospital District lie to their tax-paying public.
Rather, the officials running the seventh largest tax-funded hospital system in the nation have a long history of avoiding the truth.
Especially when it comes to how and why they're spending our tax dollars.
Take the District's Western Regional Health Park (shown above) – which for years has been losing millions of tax dollars in a failed battle to compete with the privately operated Cleveland Clinic in upscale Weston.
Not that the seven commissioners appointed by Florida's governor to run the District have a clue about Broward Health's tax dollar sink hole in far western Broward.
Nor are these same seven commission even remotely aware of the District's abject failure to care for the sick and the poor at its Weston facilities.
So much for due diligence - NOT!.
Anyhow...
What we have here in Weston is yet another bizarre example of the District using our tax dollars to compete with the private sector – or, in this case, socialized medicine at its dysfunctional worst.
Broward Health Weston
2004 2009
Patient Visits 46,120 35,940
Loss Per Visit ($55) ($43)
Gross Patient
Care Charges $14,640,760 $15,905,717
Indigent Care $42,472 $8,343
% indigent care 0.3% 0.05%
Employees 64 43
Salary & Benefits
Per FTE $61,500 $80,400
SOURCE: North Broward Hospital District
Dept. of Financial Management
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