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Top 5 Finalists Named For Jackson CEO Job

MIAMI (CBS4) -- Jackson Health System is one step closer to naming its next chief executive. Wednesday, the executive search committee of the Public Health Trust released the names of its five finalists. The list originally had twelve names.

Included on the new short list is former Miami city manager Carlos Migoya. The other four finalists are all veteran hospital executives. They are Myles Lash, a veteran consultant and hospital chief executive, who specializes in turning around troubled systems. Jodi Mansfield is a veteran administrator, mostly recently with Shands hospitals in Central Florida. "Ram" Raju is chief operating officer of the New York City Health and Hospital Association, a huge public hospital system. William Vanaskie is chief operating officer with Mariposa Integrated Health System, the safety net hospital group in Phoenix.

Miami-Dade County Manager George Burgess, who resigned from his post on Wednesday afternoon, was on the original list of twelve but did not make the short list of final five.

The Trust is searching for a replacement for President and CEO of Jackson, Dr. Eneida Roldan, who announced last fall that she would not seek an extension of her contract and plans to step down in April.

Whoever gets the job, they'll get a hefty pay check. The committee said last month it was willing to pay "up to $975-thousand" for a new hospital chief. Roldan is currently paid $665,000 per year to oversee the third largest public hospital system in the country.

Jackson's annual budget is $1.5 billion and is still struggling to survive a financial crisis brought on by mismanagement and a struggling economy.

It's the financial crisis that has some on Jackson's governing board, the Public Health Trust, to recommend such a high salary. Jorge Arrizurieta said in early February that Jackson needed to offer the best salary possible in order to attract the type of talented individual it will take to turn the hospital around financially.

(©2011 CBS Local Media, a division of CBS Radio Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. CBS4 news partner The Miami Herald contributed material for this report)

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