[villages07]

The history of funding and fundraising for the Villages hospital system has never been clearly documented for me. The Auxiliary and other support groups have conducted numerous fundraising benefits and activities over the years for various facilities and equipment additions to the Hospital. People have drawn a bulls eye on Moffitt fundraising because it has been so visible and persistent.

I am no expert in this arena, but, it seems to me that this is how community not for profit hospitals grow... From revenue in excess of expenses and community fundraising and support.

I welcome the announcement of an affiliation with University of South Florida. We are the perfect incubator for a Framingham type study on aging baby boomers and elder care.

I used to say the medical care was lagging the demand. I think this former shortcoming has improved dramatically in the last couple of years.

Back to the topic at hand.... sounds like the project grew too large and ambitious; it seems like the VFW post would have been a logical place to host this but they were brought in too late. I'm sure there were business reasons that the Villages opted out, but, "anti-military" is probably not one of them.