Hospital grapples with 'astronomical' PPE costs

Keeping employees motivated and focused is a key task for Sarasota Memorial Hospital CEO David Verinder.

  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 6:23 p.m. July 9, 2020
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David Verinder says uncertainty is the biggest challenge at Sarasota Memorial Hospital.
David Verinder says uncertainty is the biggest challenge at Sarasota Memorial Hospital.
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Few things illustrate the coronavirus pandemic-led budget crisis at Sarasota Memorial Hospital better than an N95 mask.

Before COVID-19, on average, the community nonprofit hospital paid about $0.51 cents per mask, buying in bulk. In the past three months, that price has gone up to $3 to $4 a mask. “It’s astronomical,” SMH President and CEO David Verinder says.

 

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