Orlando Sentinel's Lauren Ritchie published another article related to the North Lake County Hospital District, and focused on the extreme compensation received by management at Waterman Hospital and how they still wanted about $5-million of taxpayer funds when they reported "profits" of $18-million. Read it if you want to understand why reform is needed over the Hospital District.
The picture is in reference to the insatiable appetite of the Hospital District for using local taxpayer money without any oversight or clear justification. A referendum is needed to let the public vote whether to continue the North Lake County Hospital District and let them continue taking about $10-million in taxpayer funds and splitting it between Leesburg Regional Medical Center and Waterman Hospital without any specific rules on how the funds or spent, or methods to ensure they are only spent according to the rules (which don't exist now).
Please FORWARD this to any friend who might find it interesting and wants to monitor local Lake County government fiscal issues. This is the local watchdog news you won't ever see in the Daily Commercial or Orlando Sentinel (except Lauren's column, sometimes). JOIN our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/FiscalRangers . EMAIL us with your email to get on our insiders email list at FiscalRangers AT Comcast DOT net .
Good for her ... and you.
Keep up the good work.
Posted by: Herb Weil | April 10, 2011 at 09:01 AM