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FIU helps military vets head into nursing careers, pg. 12 SABADELL UNITED BEING SOLD: Miami’s Sabadell United Bank is being sold by Banco Sabadell to Iberiabank Corp. based in Lafayette, LA, for $1.025 billion, the Louisiana bank announced Tuesday. Both banks’ boards have approved the transaction, which is expected to close in the second half of this year subject to regulatory approvals.

Iberiabank is to pay $803 million in cash and about 2.61 million of its shares, valued at $222 million.

Banco Sabadell will own about 4.9% of Iberiabank when the transaction is final. Iberiabank has 304 combined locations, including 199 bank branches in seven states, Florida among them. Fernando Pérez-Hickman, chairman of Sabadell United, hailed the sale in a statement.

Vast health system expansion adds memory care site, pg. 14

The Achiever

By Susan Danseyar

CONSTRUCTION SLIPS: Construction in South Florida has started the year on a down note, as total construction starts fell 8% in January from their value in January 2016, according to Dodge Data & Analytics.

The drop hid very solid gains in non-residential construction, where starts were valued 64% more than in January 2016. But that gain was more than offset up a 36% decline in the region in the value of residential starts. The actual monetary value of non-residential starts edged past residential, at $316.8 million nonresidential value and nearly $312 million residential.

Last January the value of residential starts was more than 84% of the total $684 million value of all starts.

ELECTRIC COSTS BELOW AVERAGE: South Floridians paid 11.9% less than the national average per kilowatt hour for the electricity they consumed, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. The price here averaged 11.8 cents per kilowatt hour, up from 11.2 cents in January 2016 but well below the national average of 13.4 cents, the bureau reported. Last January, electricity prices here were 16.4% lower than the nation as a whole.

TRANSIT CORRIDOR FUNDING: County commissioners last week unanimously approved the administration executing a joint partnership agreement with the State of Florida Department of Transportation to provide $1,110,348 in transit corridor funding for operation of the Flagler Max bus route schedule. The legislation authorizes spending any additional funds for purposes specified in the agreement.

CLEAN BUSES: County commissioners deferred to March 21 action on a joint participation agreement with the State of Florida Department of Transportation for $800,000 that would purchase three 40-foot compressed natural gas buses for the Beach Corridor Alignment project for a total of $1.6 million.

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City OKs 838 rentals in two Midtown towers

By John Charles Robbins

Miami city commissioners succeeded in getting a local workforce commitment and a contribution to the affordable housing fund from a Midtown developer poised to bring two more towers to the bustling new community.

Midtown 6 and 7 are twin mixed-use projects sharing a common courtyard and a narrow pedestrian plaza, or “mews.”

Together the towers will provide 838 market rate apartments along with retail and offices and garages with room to park 1,106 cars.

Midtown Opportunities VB LLC and Midtown Opportunities IVR LLC requested a Major Use Special Permit for Midtown 6 at 3101 NE First Ave. to allow a development with more than 400 dwellings; and a Class II Permit for Midtown 7 at 3001 NE First Ave. to allow new construction; and two subordinate Class II permits for both Midtown 6 and Midtown 7 to provide tandem loading berths and allow for the maneuvering of trucks within the public right of way for off-street loading, and approval of a height increase of up to 10% for both towers.

The planning and zoning staff and the

State study of blasting gets a push

Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board recommended approval.

The commission approved all the permits unanimously Feb. 23.

Commissioner Frank Carollo fought for a requirement that the developer hire local workers, monitored regularly by an independent third party, with fines for not maintaining hiring percentages. The developer must hire 40% of workers from Miami-Dade County. Of that number, 25% must live in the City of Miami.

The developer also agreed to pay $230,000 into the city’s affordable housing trust fund – $115,000 for each building due when the building permit is issued.

The matter was in limbo awhile at the meeting, tabled as lawyers for the developer and city worked out details.

Edward Martos, an attorney for the developer, thanked commissioners for settling the matter.

Commissioner Ken Russell said, “It makes a good project better.”

“I agree,” Mr. Martos responded.

Midtown 6 will have 31 stories with 442,372 square feet of floor area including 447 apartments, 39,718 square feet of commercial space, 1,820 square feet of offices, residential

amenities, and a 601-space garage.

Midtown 7 will be 31 stories with 386,779 square feet of floor area including 391 apartments, 30,709 square feet for commercial use, 2,397 square feet of offices, residential amenities, and a 505-space garage.

Midtown 6 and 7 are bounded on the east by East Coast Avenue, on the north by Northeast 32nd Street, on the west by Northeast First Avenue and on the south by Northeast 30th Street, two of the last undeveloped parcels in Midtown.

“The project helps fulfill the promise of Midtown,” Mr. Martos told commissioners.

Midtown was envisioned years ago to revitalize a former rail yard, and his clients are playing a major role in seeing that vision realized, Mr. Martos said.

Architect Grace Ames of bKL Architecture said the towers will bring in shops, cafes, restaurants and a grocery store.

Mr. Carollo commended designers on the look of the towers, calling them “very pleasing to the eye.”

Commissioner Francis Suarez said Midtown has been transformed into a vibrant area, growing from a “wasteland” of stacked storage containers into a well-planned, self-contained city.

County commissioners are concerned that noise from blasting is affecting citizens’ lives but know it’s a state issue. That’s why they voted last week to support a study reviewing mining activities, related claims and effects of statewide ground vibration limit for the mining of construction materials.

Chair Esteban Bovo Jr. sponsored the resolution and explained its intent at the Feb. 22 meeting. “We’ve have an uptick in complaints about the constant blasting,” he said, adding that he was proposing an amendment.

“This is an urging to support what [state legislators] are doing in Tallahassee.”

The original legislation was to support state Senate and House bills that would revise the timeframe for a requirement that a portion of Miami-Dade County lake belt mitigation plan fees be used to fund such a study.

Mr. Bovo’s amendment, which passed, removed a few sentences regarding authority of the state fire marshal to adopt standards, limits and regulations for mining activities and replaced others for clarity.

County Attorney James Kirtley pointed out that a phrase was removed that would have included temporary cessation of blasting.

Commissioner Jose “Pepe” Diaz said he had received 250 calls on his personal cell phone, even at 3 a.m. He spoke about the importance of this issue throughout Florida and thanked Mr. Bovo for addressing it.

Mr. Diaz, who asked to cosponsor the legislation, said it’s a good idea to have the state control blasting. “I am supportive of an industry that employs a lot of people,” he said. “The true intent of the amendment is that whatever we do to an industry, we must be very mindful but also of the residents.”

However, Mr. Diaz said, this is not a local issue. “This is the state, and [regulations] must be uniform.”

Barbara Jordan also asked to cosponsor the amended resolution.

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FIU’s hospitality school has for a decade run a program in Tianjin University of Commerce that’s at capacity.

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“We are attracting more students from India”: Dean Mike Hampton.

FIU seeks link to university tourism school in Hong Kong

By Marilyn Bowden

A team from FIU’s Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management recently visited Hong Kong in search of more alliances that can help keep its graduates competitive in a rapidly changing global hospitality environment.

“Asia is one of the fastest growing areas from a tourism & hospitality perspective, so relationships there are more and more important,” says Chaplin’s Dean Mike Hampton, who led the team.

In Hong Kong, Dean Hampton says, “we met with people from Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s School of Hotel & Tourism Management, which is one of the best in the world. We are looking at a strategic alliance with them.” He cited as a model Hong Kong Polytechnic’s partnership with the University of Houston’s Conrad N. Hilton School of Hotel & Restaurant Management, which sends students to Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne in Switzerland for their first semester, to Hong Kong for the second semester and to Houston for the third. After a final semester completing an

internship in the industry, they have earned an MS in Global Hospitality Business, a designation that has made them very desirable in the job market.

“All of the first 60 grads have offers,” Dean Hampton says. “So we are very interested in how we can create better global relationships.”

Chaplin, he says, already has several thriving relationships in the area. In mainland China, for example, FIU’s hospitality school has since 2006 run a program at the Tianjin University of Commerce that is now at full capacity.

“We’re cultivating more in Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu,” Dean Hampton says. “About 1,000 students are enrolled in our Shanghai program.”

The school also has a relationship with City University of Macau, a Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China often called the Las Vegas of Asia.

“We are attracting more students from India and looking for the right academic partners there,” Dean Hampton says. “There’s a significant number of tour operators now in

business in India, where adventure tourism – sort of like Outward Bound in the US – is very popular. This is also true in China.”

The millennial generation, he says, is “very geared to things like mountain climbing and river rafting. Some people want to see the traditional monuments, but more and more want an unusual experience.”

While in Hong Kong, Dean Hampton says, the FIU team hosted a Visionary Leaders Forum where 15 senior executives from Asian hospitality firms talked about evolving competencies they are looking for.

“Number One is global experience,” Dean Hampton says. “They don’t need entry level workers; they can get them locally. They want people who can help meet the global challenges facing the industry.”

Climate change poses unique challenges to the hospitality & tourism industry worldwide, he says.

“In 30 years,” Dean Hampton says, “half the world’s coffee production will have dried up because of global warming. So restaurants need to figure out what beverages will replace it.

“For cruise lines, the impact of sea-level

rise is huge. Where will their ports be in 40 years?”

Rapidly changing technology, he says, is revolutionizing the industry.

“There will be no desk clerks in 30 years,” Dean Hampton says. “Hotels need to have technology that will accommodate this.”

Wearable devices, he says, loaded with users’ identifying data, credit card information and the like, will allow wearers to make reservations, order food in advance, and pay for goods and services. All the while, the device is logging their preferences and tracking their activities.

Prototypes, he says, are already in use.

Walt Disney World packs the technology into a discreet bracelet called a Disney MagicBand; Carnival Cruise Lines’ Ocean Medallion device can be worn as a pin or necklace, or just slipped into a pocket.

“The industry needs grads who understand hospitality,” Dean Hampton says, “but also all of these things that are going to impact the business of creating customer experience – grads who will be instrumental in helping companies be successful in the global hospitality environment.”

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MIAMI TODAY

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County’s mayor opens the door to a gold rush downtown A new 40-page memo from county Mayor Carlos Gimenez opens the doors to a development gold rush in downtown Miami.

It suggests the county could package nine of its sites so someone Michael Lewis could develop 13.5 million to 18.9 million square feet smack in the core of the city.

The memo says that probably not all nine would be developed at once, and that all work should be consistent with aims for downtown.

But, it says, opening these sites to one or more private partners could bring the county a much-needed civil courthouse and “if appropriately planned, the needs for educational institutions, park and civic space, housing and office space for the county… can be met” as well.

All of that, the mayor’s memo says, could be done without the county yielding an inch of land or, it’s implied, spending a penny to get what it wants if it simply partners with the right developers.

This memo is headed for the county commission, which should scrutinize it not for what’s now on the table – the county lists only a single potential partner now in formal talks – but for what the county aims to achieve and how far it’s willing to go to get it.

In any serious public-private proposal, the developer will expect solid profits. Nobody cuts a deal expecting to lose.

That means that to get buildings it needs, the county would deal away valuable rights and space where it already has buildings.

Ramifications could be enormous in meeting taxpayer needs without cost. The memo outlines what sites developers might get, with the public aims and implications to be filled in later.

This bonanza image didn’t come out of thin air. Back in December 2014 commissioners led by Bruno Barreiro andAudrey Edmonson voted 11-0 to order the mayor – whose dual jobs include both leader and administrator – to plan for the development, maintenance and use of county-owned properties from the Miami River north to I-395 and from the bay west to I-95.

Two-plus years later, this extensive plan is the eye-popping result.

The study found that, other than for transportation, the county owns 19 downtown properties totaling 46.2 acres, of which nine

The Cultural Center’s best value in report, $84.8 million, would be to demolish the block.

totaling 22.7 acres have development rights that could vastly expand their use.

How vast? From 2.8 million square feet developed today to as much as 21.7 million – all paid for by as-yet-unknown parties who would add space for government downtown and control the rest of the land for profitmaking developments.

The gold rush is on.

While this is only a start, the mayor’s memo includes these development sites: ■On vacant land north of the 30-story Stephen P. Clark Center (the hub of government) and a daycare center at 111 NW First St., a firm could lease for development 2.5 acres worth $75 million for up to $3.77 million a year.

The Clark Center consumes only 6.7% of the site’s development capacity at 775,478 square feet, the memo points out. All Aboard Florida is talking with the county about building a transit center there. That would take up just the ground floor, however, so a developer could go vertical hundreds of feet, potentially giving county hall a taller neighbor that could also provide county expansion space.

■The Cultural Center next door, home to the main library and HistoryMiami Museum, sits on a full square block that’s mostly a plaza that few people even know about. At best use, the report says, the block would be demolished, leaving a land market value of $84.8 million as of December 2014, probably far more today.

If the buildings can’t be demolished, the report suggests that sale and leaseback of the land would yield the county $28.8 million. But, the report points out, nobody has formally proposed anything – as is true with

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other sites that could be bargaining chips to meet needs through private party deals.

■A motor pool and vacant land at 150 SE Second Ave. could be sold and demolished, bringing the county $20.25 million. The county then would have to find somewhere else to fuel its vehicles downtown, which shouldn’t be tough. There might even be a question why the county is in the filling station business.

■The Metro Flagler Building at 140 W Flagler St. is 16 stories of county offices but creaky. It needs maintenance costing more than its value, the mayor’s report says. A developer could build up to 36 stories on the site.

■County staff says a developer might pay $17.5 million for 42,000 square feet on the grounds of the 3-year-old Children’s Courthouse at 165 NW Third St. ■What may be the greatest need downtown is to replace inadequate and crumbling 28-story, 1925-vintage Miami-Dade County Courthouse. Officials have been seeking a solution for years.

The study offers three paths: sell the courthouse and its development rights for $31.3 million and lease it back, then find a new courthouse; sell the building and vacate it, which could bring $21.6 million; or sell only transferred development rights for an estimated $11.06 million.

■The Hickman Building and garage at 270 and 275 NW Second St. now total 359,230 square feet but have a development potential of up to 4.7 million square feet, the study found.

Also potentially marketable: Parcel B, the 2.77 acres behind the AmericanAirlines

Arena that were pictured as soccer fields to sell the arena deal to taxpayers. The county is negotiating to lease the site for a Cuban Exile History Museum. The Miami Heat uses it now. Other groups have also talked about using the totally bare ground. An appraiser found that minus development restrictions, the land would be worth $120 million.

So should developers’mouths be watering at the thought of nine deals for nine sites or a single package deal that could transform downtown?

And should commissioners be lusting after all the goodies that public-private deals could bring – because today it’s a blank slate with anything possible – or should they be cautious about dealing too much away with too little control? Remember, the more strings the county attaches the less a deal will be worth to developers and the less the county will get.

In other words, is this memo a panacea for our needs? Frankly, we’re a long way from knowing.

All the estimates are probably understated, since they were made in 2014 and downtown real estate has been soaring. The county could get even more.

On the flip side, it might be hard to find a single developer with an appetite for all of these goodies at a time that Swire is only part way through its mammoth Brickell City Centre just to the south and Miami Worldcenter inches slowly just to the north.

And while the county might question deals with developers, developers might also wonder what could happen at county hall if our rapid rise in valuations should slow for reasons stretching from uncertainties in Washington to global wobbling or a force of nature like rising seas. Where would demand for space be then?

Downtown Miami is highly desirable today, but timing is everything.

The ability to develop 22-plus acres downtown in return for meeting county hall’s needs is appealing. So is the idea of making waste space work for us instead of tapping taxpayers’ wallets.

After all, it is every commissioner’s dream to tell taxpayers truthfully, “We can get it for you and it’s all free.”

So commissioners certainly will take this study seriously. But they need to be certain that there is real private demand from serious developers who can perform as promised.

We won’t know that until the county hangs out a partners-wanted signs. Expect that soon. Then encourage the county to vet proposals carefully.

Because once these nine sites are gone, we’ll never get the chance to try again downtown. The gold rush will be over.

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Available rail tracks offer optimal transit solutions

Why not run it all the way to the Miami Beach Convention Center? Oh, right, money. Maybe it might be a good time to consider a plan that Using available train tracks is the way to go. involves a private/public partnership, which Otherwise, elevated is the only way to go, since was not included in this “SMART” plan.

DC Copeland putting mass transit at grade (sharing streets) only increases gridlock. As an example, when was the last time you saw rapid mass transit on the streets of NYC, London, Tokyo, etc.?

Not having enough money to pay for it shouldn’t mean cutting corners and not doing Regarding the Virginia Key marina request it right from the beginning. for proposals (RFP), I appreciate your referAs for Metromover, running from Miami to ence to my concerns in regards to the control Miami Beach over the MacArthur Causeway of the entire bay area north of the Miami won’t solve the problem because the cars are Marine Stadium (submerged land). But my too small and slow. Metrorail, on the other main concern is with the west side of the bay, hand, would work. north of the existing restaurants and marinas But why stop at Fifth Street and Alton? areas referenced and still included in the RFP.

Why is almost half of bay still in Virginia Key plan?

Due to the great public and Virginia Key Advisory Committee concern for an additional 300 slips in this area, the RFP has been rewritten to exclude the new marina in the bid. This is a big ruse. The full 27-plus acres, one-third of which are the submerged bay bottom north of the existing marinas and include most all the bay area directly west of the stadium, are still included in the new RFP. Only the city’s right to build a marina or mooring field on the east side of the bay was removed from the RFP. Why is almost half of the bay still included in the RFP? The developer will have the right to build and profit from a new marina and mooring, etc., in the north bay at any future date with the vote of the city commission.

Bob Deresz

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Manufacturer can’t keep up with Beach’s trolley demands

By John Charles Robbins

The City of Miami Beach is doing well with two new routes on its free trolley service with a goal of providing folks a city-wide option for getting around.

Connectivity is a key to its success, said city officials.

The bus-like trolleys, designed to look like old vintage trolleys or streetcars, are more popular than ever and the manufacturer can’t keep up with demand.

Miami Beach had planned to roll out the last two routes during the summer of 2016, after announcing the push to city-wide service in 2015.

The manufacturer informed the city it was taking more than nine months to deliver new full-sized trolleys, and they are being made on a first-come, first-served basis.

Miami Beach got the new trolleys in November and December.

“With commencement of the Middle Beach Loop trolley service on Nov. 22 and Collins Link on Dec. 22, the city has enabled for an

additional, reliable, city-wide transportation option, significantly improving city-wide mobility and connectivity,” said José R. González, director of the Miami Beach Transportation Department.

The new routes have been very well accepted by the trolley riders, he said.

To enable passengers to commute using the trolleys, the city extended service hours to begin two hours earlier in the morning with the openings of the Middle Beach Loop and Collins Link, said Mr. González.

Current hours of operation are 6 a.m. to midnight Monday to Saturday, and 8 a.m. to midnight Sundays, 365 days a year, with service frequency of 10-15 minutes.

“Though the Middle Beach Trolley and Collins Link rolled out less than three months ago, trolley ridership has been rising steadily and has been a good indicator of the positive impact of the new trolley service on the community,” Mr. González said.

The Middle Beach Loop has an average daily ridership of about 3,300, while the

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Collins Link serves about 2,400 passengers a day. The North Beach Loop has an average daily ridership of approximately 2,500 passengers.

The Middle Beach Loop runs from 17th Street north to 44th Street, stopping at many key points along the way, including Mount Sinai Hospital, businesses and schools on 41st Street, the Miami Beach Regional Library, Collins Park, the Miami Beach Convention Center, the Botanical Garden and City Hall, among others.

The Collins Link services the dozens of condo buildings along the corridor, and specifically provides connectivity between the North Beach and Middle Beach trolley loops. Key stops for this new route includes the Publix at 69th Street, North Shore Youth Center, North Shore Branch Library, Normandy Isle park and pool, and more.

The trolleys can carry an average of 25 passengers with ample floor space to provide easy access to wheelchairs and disabled passengers, free onboard Wi-Fi, real-time tracking and next bus information through

the city’s mobile application Egov, security cameras and trained drivers.

Miami Beach now operates 17 trolley vehicles. Six run along Middle Beach Loop, five along Collins Link and four along the North Beach Loop.

The city is currently operating a temporary Alton-West Loop with two trolleys in service 8 a.m. to midnight every day. That loop will be terminated once the South Beach Trolley service is launched, which is anticipated this November, Mr. González said.

“The city is constantly evaluating the existing service and identifying potential enhancements to better serve the community,” he said.

The city hopes to roll out the South Beach Trolley in November, he said. Ten low-floor vehicles will be providing service along the South Beach Loop with a frequency of 1015 minutes during the same service hours as the other trolley loops.

“In addition,” Mr. González said, “the city is planning to launch an express trolley service to facilitate travel from North Beach to South Beach with no more than one transfer.”

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Berger Singerman names partner Berger Singerman has named Matthew Nelles partner on its dispute resolution team. Mr. Nelles had been a partner at Broad and Cassel.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University and a JD from Nova Southeastern University.

United Data promotes to VP United DataTechnologies has promoted Tony Best to vice president of professional services. Mr. Best had been an engineering manager at Presidio. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Iowa.

Matthew Nelles

Tony Best

Tony Argiz

Katy Welsh

Santiago Eliaschev Sonia Pino

named “Executive of the Year” during the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce’s Top Entrepreneurial Awards luncheon. Mr. Argiz holds a bachelor’s degree from Florida International University.

vices. Ms. Welsh had been president Santander Bank. He holds a bachand a broker at Hunter Real Estate elor’s degree from Saint Anselm Brokerage. She holds a bachelor’s College. degree from Auburn University.

Development authority adds for connectivity Treece Financial adds in development The Miami Downtown DevelopChamber names Colliers International Treece Financial Group Inc has ment Authority has added Santiago executive of the year appoints senior VP added Robert Wroblewski as Eliaschev as a member of its transit, Tony Argiz, chairman and chief Colliers International South business development manager. mobility & connectivity committee. executive officer at Morrison, Florida has appointed Katy Welsh Mr. Wroblewski had been a finan- Mr. Eliaschev is an architecture Brown, Argiz & Farra LLC, was senior vice president of retail ser- cial advisor and branch manager at team leader at PlusUrbia Design.

He holds a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

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role, Mr. Chang will oversee multimillion dollar projects from preconstruction through project completion, with a special emphasis on LEED projects. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida.

New World School adds to directors The New World School of theArts Foundation has added Jacqueline Calderín to its board of directors.

Moss & Associates promotes to VP Ms. Calderín is a founding member Moss & Associates has promoted and an attorney at Ehrenstein CharStephen Chang to vice president bonneau Calderin. She holds a JD and project executive. In his new from the University of Miami.

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FIU helps military vets, reservists head to nursing careers

By Camila Cepero

A program at Florida International University’s Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing & Health Sciences is helping recent veterans, current reservists, and national guard members integrate into education and prepare for a future as a nursing professional.

The Veterans Bachelor of Science in Nursing (VBSN) program is open to service members who trained and served in select military classifications and who were discharged in the past two years, or within five years for those who have been employed in a civilian healthcare role as combat medic, flight medic or hospital corpsmen.

The VBSN program, which was founded in 2013, has seen close to 100 graduates since its inception, said Maria Olenick, chair of Undergraduate Nursing at the Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing & Health Sciences and champion of veteran programs in the college.

While there is no expectation that program graduates will return into the armed services, some do, while others transition into civilian life.

The curriculum is designed

‘The program graduates have been very successful and very confident and very sought out for critical care environments.’

“This program has stimulated interest in veterans for other programs,” said Dean Ora L. Strickland.

to accelerate graduation and provide credit for military training by examination whenever possible.

The VBSN program is a special project sponsored and partially funded by a grant from the Health Research Services Administration. It runs through December.

After December, program students will become eligible

to transfer to non-military accelerated programs, said Ora L. Strickland, dean of the Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing & Health Sciences.

“The program graduates have been very successful and very confident and very sought out for critical care environments,” Dr. Olenick said.

Students are also assigned a dedicated advisor, program

tutor or coach, and registered nurse veterans who provide individualized mentoring.

“This program has stimulated interest in veterans for other programs,” Dr. Strickland said, such as the nurse anesthetist and nurse practitioner programs.

“By having a group of veterans come together in a cohort – as classmates – is a real advantage to them after coming out of

Maria Olenick the military and for adjusting to life as a new nurse,” she said.

The VBSN program is only one of multiple programs that the surgeon general of the US Army, Nadja West, will learn about when she visits FIU in May. Dr. West will explore ideas for higher education programs geared at getting veterans back to school.

Miami Cancer Institute moves toward Sloan Kettering alliance

By Camila Cepero

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the Miami Cancer Institute have begun a collaboration aimed at improving patient access to the latest and most effective cancer treatment advances – a mission that includes the launch of future collaborative clinical trials between both institutions.

Leaders from both institutions have confirmed the first step in announcing their recently signed agreement for the Miami Cancer Institute to join the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Alliance, a partnership between Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and community oncology providers that seeks to bring the most current knowledge and advanced cancer care into the community setting, according to the Miami Cancer Institute’s website.

At any given time, according to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, hundreds of clinical trials are being conducted to improve care for many types of cancer.

An essential component of this alliance is the ability to provide access to clinical trials not previ-

“This first year will be a commitment to making sure that the institution works – that the lights go on, that the power goes on, that the registration system works,” he said, “and at the same time building our clinical trials program.”

The program currently has 30 employees, with plans of expanding to 50 over the next year.

“Research and clinical trials is a very important part of what Miami Cancer Institute will be of,” Dr. Zinner said.

Over the next few months, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center will collaboratively guide Miami Cancer Institute toward strengthening its patient care and clinical cancer research programs. Teams of physicians and other healthcare providers from both institutions are to work diligently side by side for hundreds of hours to ensure that resources, capabilities and standards of care are in line with the highest and most recent standards A key component of the Miami Cancer Institute-Sloan Kettering alliance is clinical trials: Michael Zinner. of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Alliance, officials say. ously available to patients in the Miami Cancer Institute found- dent from Sloan Kettering.

Once this first phase is coming CEO and Executive Medical South Florida’s melting pot of plete, Miami Cancer Institute is Miami area. people from around the world expected to become an official “We want to look down their Director Michael Zinner.

Miami Cancer Institute, which makes it a “positive target for member of the Memorial Sloan list of hundreds of trials and look at which are the most appropriate opened its doors last month, will those who want access to conduct Kettering Cancer Alliance over for us and our community,” said also be conducting trials indepen- clinical trials,” Dr. Zinner said. the next year.

Clinical trials may add Southern Hemisphere population focus

By Camila Cepero

Including populations from the Southern Hemisphere in the Miami Cancer Institute’s new clinical trials is something that is definitely on his radar, says founding CEO and Executive Medical Director Michael Zinner.

While a large body of clinical trials have been conducted with populations from around the world, the Southern Hemi-

sphere has long been lacking in evidence.

In the Northeast, where Dr. Zinner has worked in places such as New York and Boston, he said, the patients in clinical trials are predominantly Northern European in origin because “that’s where the Northeast was populated from.”

“In the West Coast – those patients in Los Angeles, San Francisco, etc. – we also have a large population of patients from the Pacific Rim,” he said, “and we

do know something about the African American population.”

However, populations from the Southern Hemisphere have not been well represented in clinical trials, Dr. Zinner said, “in part because of the expenses associated with clinical trials.”

But South Florida’s heterogeneous population presents a unique opportunity to conduct clinical trials across a large sector of different populations.

While the brand new Miami Cancer Institute, which opened in January, will not start conducting clinical trials for at least another year, there are definitely plans to include populations from the Southern Hemisphere in those trials once they begin.

Those clinical trials, Dr. Zinner said, will not only focus on patients from Latin America but from all countries located within the hemisphere.

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HEALTH UPDATE

WEEK OF THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 2017

Vast health systems expansion includes memory care facility

By John Charles Robbins

Miami Jewish Health Systems, a medical campus that has grown and evolved since the 1940s, is working on a master plan for the next 30 years and beyond.

The City of Miami’s Urban Development Review Board this week recommended approval of a sweeping master plan for the health service, along with Phase I, which will include construction of a cutting-edge memory care facility.

It will be called Empathicare Village and include a new 142,708-square-foot, three-story facility and a 135,576-square-foot, three-story parking garage accented by murals from local artists.

The review board’s unanimous recommendation for approval included two conditions: that the developer considers adding liner uses to the garage to help activate Northeast 53rd Street, and a final landscape plan must be brought back to the board for review.

Board member Fidel Perez pushed for the liner units on the north side of the planned garage in Phase I. The artwork is a nice touch, he said, but there’s no movement of people. He suggested leasing out some of the space “to create movement.”

Mr. Perez added, “Anything you do at that corner is an improvement.”

The nonprofit senior health care provider has hired c.c. hodgson architectural group to design the ambitious new master plan for its property in Little Haiti, border by Northeast 53rd Street, Northeast Second Avenue, Northeast 50th Terrace, Northeast Miami Place, Northeast 52nd Street and North Miami Avenue.

The architectural firm has offices in Fort Lauderdale, Cleveland and Washington and specializes in wellness-based design services.

The overall master plan shows the construction of 11 new buildings and facilities, improvements to more than a half dozen existing structures, and demolition of five buildings and one pavilion.

A significant aspect of the master plan for the health campus at 5200 NE Second Ave. is consolidating parking into new multi-level garages, freeing up old surface

The expansion of Miami Jewish Health Systems is planned in four phases, with the master plan’s work on the first phase to start next year.

parking lots for new buildings and expanded open space, said senior design architect Jim Ballenger.

The complete build-out of the master plan would include a hotel and conference center.

Joseph Eisenberg, a planner with the city, told the board that staff has worked with the developer’s team for nearly a year. The original Special Area Plan had the 10-story hotel in the southeast corner of the property, and the developer agreed to shift the hotel to a centralized location, he said. The developer also agreed to move one of the loading bays to another location on staff’s recommendation, said Mr. Eisenberg.

“We are happy with the progress made,” he said.

Mr. Eisenberg said the health campus property is zoned Civic Institution and the company’s expansion plans are included in a Special Area Plan or SAP. The city’s zoning code, Miami 21, says the purpose of a Special

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The Empathicare Village in northwest part of campus is in phase I.

Area Plan is to allow parcels of 9 abutting acres or more to be master planned to allow greater integration of public improvements and infrastructure, and “greater flexibility so as to result in higher or specialized quality building and Streetscape design.”

Special Area Plans also require review and action by the city’s Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board and the city commission.

Attorney Iris Escarra, representing the health systems, said they were excited to present the very first all-medical Special Area Plan in the city. She said the non-profit offers a wide range of health care services, from independent living to hospice.

The site of about 20 acres serves as the Miami Jewish Health Systems’ hospital campus, providing 24-hour-a-day services for its patients, with services including on-site hospital and ambulatory health clinic, to specialized centers for biofeedback, mental health, rehabilitation, and memory centers, and assisted living facilities.

Miami Jewish Health Systems currently provides 104 assisted living facilities with the proposed addition of 99 additional beds, for a total of 203 assisted living facility beds.

“This truly is unique,” Mr. Ballenger told the board as images of the master plan were shown. “For many people, this is also their home,” he said of the medical

campus.

Mr. Ballenger said the health system developed haphazardly over the decades, and much of the property was eventually devoted to surface parking lots. Even with the added pavement, Jewish Health Systems has been able to protect and preserve a generous tree canopy and lush landscaped areas, he said.

The master plans will add even more civic space, gardens, park areas and greenery, he said.

“It is an oasis, a real gem of lush gardens,” he said. “The goal is to extend the canopy throughout the site.”

The initial goals of the Special Area Plan, said Mr. Ballenger, are to establish a memory care facility, build a gerontological research facility or institute – for the study of aging – and advance more outreach programs.

Phase I is beginning in 2018 and includes the Empathicare Facility and garage, in the northwest corner of the campus. Phase II is targeted for 2021 and is to include the research institute and fivestory garage with a green roof.

Phase III will provide lodging uses and Phase IV will include a conference center.

Currently the campus is surrounded by a tall wall and fence.

The master plan shows getting rid of the wall and fence for most of the site and using buildings as the perimeter, said Mr. Ballenger.

In the Special Area Plan it

reads, “The maximum height of the perimeter fence/wall will be 8 [feet]. The new site plan utilizes the buildings as the perimeter and calls for the demolition of a significant portion of the existing fence. In the few areas where we are building a new fence, we are connecting to the existing fence and aim to continue the existing aesthetic. By maintaining the existing aesthetic it allows for a secure perimeter that allows for visual permeability and landscaping on both sides.”

Board member Gerald C. Marston said while he understands the need for security he commended and applauded the elimination of much of the fence and instead using the buildings. He also applauded the move to get away from large surface parking lots.

The layout of new buildings and facilities is designed to “create a very cutting edge environment … it’s like a little village unto itself,” said Mr. Ballenger.

And getting away from the haphazard look of the campus, “we will have more cohesive architecture as we move forward,” he said.

Ms. Escarra told the board the artwork on the garage will be from local artists.

Board member Neil Hall said the proposed artwork is “a strong element,” and he’d like to see it used on the North Miami Avenue side as well.

Mr. Hall said his wife had the pleasure of working on the health systems site. “It’s a very important campus that has morphed into this homey space that is very nice,” he said.

“All we do is [design] senior living. We are designing people’s homes,” Mr. Ballenger said.

Board Chairman Robert Behar commended Jewish Health Systems for great service to the community.

He said his mother received care there and it was incredible.

“I am happy to see the evolution of the center and I support this,” said Mr. Behar.

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Tallahassee, Washington holds keys to health care cost rises

By Catherine Lackner

Healthcare costs are predicted to rise this year, but it’s not known yet whether it will be a slight or dramatic increase.

“What will happen with healthcare costs is not unrelated to what happens in Washington and in Tallahassee,” said Linda Quick, former president of the South Florida Hospital & Healthcare Association and now president of Quick-Bernstein Connection Group, a consulting firm.

“Insurance prices in Florida are already higher than they are in Linda Quick other states, and they will continue to increase in single digits, year over year.”

If the Affordable Care Act is eliminated, with it will go the requirements that insurance companies offer certain benefits as a baseline, she said. “In order to be price-competitive, insurance companies could eliminate benefits. Employer-based plans won’t change as much as the private market.”

The Florida Legislature has a history of turning a blind eye toward companies that sell what they call insurance, and in today’s anti-regulatory environment that will likely continue, she said. “They send you a card, but it’s useless,” Ms. Quick said.

“They will find reasons to deny coverage.

It looks like insurance, but it isn’t.”

The attitude in Tallahassee, espoused

by Gov. Jeb Bush and now by Gov. Rick Scott, is that “anything that starts with the word ‘competitive’ is good,” she said. “So it’s buyer beware. Make sure what you’re buying is legitimate.”

There will be a push in Tallahassee, as there has been in previous years, to do away with the certificate of need process that mandates community need be demonstrated before healthcare facilities can be built or expanded. There will also be attempts by physician-group and other owners to expand hours for free-standing surgical centers and by hospitals to create more trauma centers.

“If you let anybody provide anything, costs will go up and quality will go down,” Ms. Quick said. Healthcare economics work opposite from consumer economics, observers say. Excess capacity – healthcare shorthand for more supply than demand – increases costs because of the tremendous overhead these facilities generate. When many facilities compete for skilled em-

ployees and other resources, and compete among themselves for the same pool of consumers, costs rise.

When healthcare costs rise, safety net facilities that draw mostly Medicaid and Medicare patients are among the first to feel the squeeze, said Keith Arnold, a senior principal and lobbyist in the Fort Myers office of the Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney law firm.

“With Medicare and Medicaid, you’re told what you’re going to get paid, and there is no negotiating with the Keith Arnold federal or state government. These are the two largest insurance programs in the country” and are a

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significant part of the landscape in South Florida, he said.

Meanwhile, there is no supply-side regulation, he said. “Nothing a provider purchases is regulated, from the equipment and supplies they buy to the capital that goes into running a hospital or clinic. There’s a very small margin, and many providers are upside down. It’s a very tenuous market for providers, and some are going out of business.”

A possible solution would be for “Congress to get its arms around this” and consider that facilities can’t keep up with rising costs if Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements are static, Mr. Arnold said.

“America continues to get older, and as baby boomers age, the number of people eligible for Medicare and the number of people of limited means is going to grow,” he said. “It makes it quite difficult, especially for mission-driven institutions.”

One component of providers’ expenses is pharmaceuticals, and there will be no breaks there, according to an article by Bob Kocher and Bryan Roberts in Fortune magazine last December.

“Drug prices will continue to rise uncontrolled,” the article predicts. “Despite the public shaming of Valeant and Mylan [which hiked prices for an anti-AIDS drug and the EpiPen, respectively], little is done

by Congress to curtail or roll back price increases that far outpace inflation.

“Emblematic of the entire care delivery ecosystem being stacked against employers, when drug prices go up, everyone who touches the drug, including the drug makers, pharmacy benefit managers, pharmacies, and in some cases, providers, all make more money. Additionally, patients continue to be desensitized to super-expensive drugs through co-pay coupons and out-of-pocket maximums well below the price of their drugs.”

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