Overview
- Memorial’s board voted to remove the interim tag and name Shane Strum president and CEO while Broward Health’s board separately endorsed him continuing as its CEO, formalizing a dual leadership role.
- The two hospital districts will remain separate legal entities with independent boards, budgets, and operations and no statutory consolidation was approved.
- During his nearly two-year interim tenure Strum pushed coordinated programs under the Better Together banner, opened freestanding emergency rooms, and began construction on a $670 million bed tower.
- Strum’s leadership has drawn public pushback tied to restructuring and layoffs, executive and physician departures, a settled age-discrimination suit, Memorial’s out-of-network status with Florida Blue, and a petition with more than 2,700 signatures opposing closer alignment.
- The combined system covers about 10 hospitals and roughly 28,000 employees, and the boards have asked HR to hire an outside firm to set Memorial’s permanent CEO pay while stakeholders watch for changes to patient access, oversight, and any future legal or legislative moves toward deeper integration.