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Miami-Dade commissioners settled on a budget Thursday night that slightly lowers the property-tax rate for 2012-13, maintains funding for most community organizations and does away with a healthcare concession imposed earlier this year on county employees.

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Jackson Health System, long in the red, is projecting a net surplus next fiscal year of $35 million — money the public hospitals badly need to pay off bills and start making facility improvements.Altogether, with the help of county bond money, Jackson leaders hope to plow $63 million into capital improvements in the fiscal yearContinue reading “The Miami Herald: Jackson Health System projects a financial surplus for 2013, approves UM deal”

While other cities are charging ahead to create integrated healthcare systems for the poor and uninsured in preparation for healthcare reform, little is being done in the Miami area because the system is “fragmented,” according to a new report from the journal Health Affairs.

Fed up with the slowness of negotiations with the University of Miami, the board of the Jackson Health System voted unanimously Thursday to start putting $3.6 million of its monthly payments to the medical school into an escrow account until a deal gets done.

The Charter Review Task Force has rejected a proposal to create a new governing board for Jackson Health System, but Marcos Lapciuc, Jackson’s board chairman, is continuing to push for a revised governing structure to replace the present Financial Recovery Board, which is scheduled to sunset next spring.

Wonders happen at Jackson Health System. The teenager saved after being shot through the head with a spear gun. The baby whose life-threatening tumor was removed before she was even born. The ailing Army veteran who received a kidney from her daughter just in time for Mother’s Day. The homeless man whose face is being put back together after a vicious attack on the MacArthur Causeway.

The debate over the future of Florida’s government-owned hospitals will play out Wednesday in Hollywood Memorial as hospital leaders hold a legislatively mandated public meeting to discuss the “possible benefits” of the sale of the $1 billion Memorial Healthcare System.

Twenty-four hours after lambasting the proposal in often heated terms, the board of the Jackson Health System on Thursday unanimously approved a memorandum of understanding to forge a new relationship with the University of Miami.