MIAMI-The chief executive officer of the Jackson Health System Carlos Migoya says that a campaign is being launched to promote an $830-million bond issue to fund upgrades to its health facilities in Miami-Dade County.
The 17-member board that runs Jackson Health System voted on Monday to ask Miami-Dade commissioners to call a special election in November seeking voter approval of the bond issue that would be used to fund renovations and equipment upgrades at the taxpayer-owned hospital system, according to the Miami Herald.
Darryl Sharpton, the board's newly appointed chairman, says the hospital system needs a cash infusion of between $700 million and $1 billion to improve facilities. The system operates its main hospital in Miami's civic center and satellite hospitals in North Miami Beach and South Miami-Dade.
“We're at a crossroads,'' Sharpton said at Monday's meeting of the board. “We have to do something drastically different or risk being irrelevant.'' See story in the Miami Herald.
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