Economic Forecast: Amid challenges of pandemic, health care system looks ahead to new hospital

Organization: This year, the first week of March was the busiest week in the 95-year history of Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, which operates an 839-bed flagship hospital and has some 7,000 staff members.

"We had 600 cars we couldn’t find parking spots for,” says President and CEO David Verinder. “Two weeks later, our volumes were down in half because the pandemic hit. We had to make a lot of changes very, very quickly in a very dramatic way.”