Stupid is as stupid does

     Aside from that Mrs. Lincoln...
     So goes the newsroom cliche concerning journalists  "blowing" a Big Story by reporting the arcane.
     Which brings us to today's (4/9/16) winner:
     David Fleshler of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
     Who, on the front page of the newspaper's local section, wrote:
     "A hearing on David Di Pietro's future as chairman of the Broward Health board ended Friday without a decision after a judge heard two hours of arguments about his suspension by Gov. Rick Scott."
      I could  go on with the 21 inches of type Fleshler devotes to telling his readers little happened concerning the Governor's recent suspension of the head of the nation's ninth largest public hospital system's governing Board of Commissioners.
      However...
      As a newsroom dinosaur disgusted by the lack of meaning and context in what passes for journalism in the 21st century, Fleshler is the dim bulb sort of reporter who  might have written about the "disturbance during Act III" - had he been present at Ford's Theater on an April evening in 1865.

The disturbance during Act III

         Anyhow...
         What Fleshler failed to report in his Journalism Lite coverage of Broward's $1.9 billion health care system:
      The North Broward Hospital District
                               dba Broward Health
                    (First eight months of fiscal years)
                       
                                       2015                     2016
Adjusted Admissions 79,200                  79,116 
Gross Revenue             $2,631,100,000     $2,617,805,000
Deductions
   Bad Debt                   ($265,340,044)      ($290,539,757
   Per adj. admit            ($3,350)                 ($3,672)
   Indigent Care            ($109,431,449)       ($106,341,738)
   Per adj. admit           ($1,382)                  ($1,344)            
   3rd Party Other         ($1,619,214,000)    ($1,634,465,000)
   Per adj. admit           ($20,445)                ($20,659)   Total
   Deductuions             ($1,993,986,000)     ($2,031,346,000)
    Per adj. admit          ($25,177)                 ($25,676)           Reimbursement
    Medicare                  $143,970,902           $126,516,768
    Per adj. admit          $1,818                      $1,599 
    Medicaid                  $44,438,776             $32,254,593
    Per adj. admit          $560                         $407
    Private  Insured        $457,307,551          $457,558,657      
    Per adj. admit          $5,774                      $5,783                           Minus                       ($21,898,020)       ($16,576,632)
    Per adj. admit         ($264)                       ($209)
   Total                         $623,819,209           $599,753,386
   Per adj. admit           $7,876 l                    $7,581             
   Other Revenue         $169,756,685           $111,096,465
   Per adj. admit           $2,143                      $1,404
   Total Revenue        $793,565,894           $610,849,851
   Per adj. admit           $10,020                    $7,721
   Total Expenses      $738,048.975           $670,053,319
   Per adj. admit          $9,318                      $8,469 
   Total Surplus          $55,516,919            ($59,203,478)
   Per adj. admit          $702                        ($748)
            Source: North Broward Hospital District
                             Board of Commissioners
                             Finance Committee