With all eyes watching, you would think the board of the North Broward Hospital District would ensure a process above reproach in picking the next CEO of the public health care system known as Broward Health.
For history shows the person who gets this job will wield enormous influence in deciding which companies get contracts worth millions of dollars, some lasting for decades, some without going out to bid.
Given the money at stake, there’s a lot of local interest in whose name next inks the contracts and signs the checks. Plus, in today’s rapidly changing health care landscape, the next CEO will make big decisions about the future of this 75 year old system of four hospitals, three urgent care centers and 12 primary care centers for the poor.
The last time the district found itself in this position after then CEO Frank Nask announced his retirement in October 2014 the board ran the search through its human resources department, rather than through an outside firm. In that case, all three finalists were internal candidates and stories abound about intense lobbying from down town types. In the end, the board chose Dr. Nabil El Sanadi, then director of emergency medicine, who tragically killed himself in January.
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Date: April 30, 2016