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Top 3 Finalists Named For Jackson CEO Job

MIAMI (CBS4) -- Jackson Health System is another step closer to naming its next chief executive. Monday, the President's Search Committee of the Public Health Trust released the names of its three final candidates for president and CEO of Jackson Health System. The list originally had twelve names, than five, and now three.

Included on the new short list is longtime bank executive and former Miami city manager Carlos Migoya.

The other two finalists are both veteran hospital executives. They are Myles Lash, a former hospital administrator and veteran healthcare consultant with experience doing successful hospital turnarounds and restructuring troubled organizations. Third on the list, "Ram" Raju, chief operating officer of the New York City Health and Hospital Association, a huge public hospital system with 21 facilities and a budget in excess of $3 billion.

All three final candidates will be meeting employees, county commissioners and members of the Public Health Trust at "Meet & Greet" events this week.

Carlos Migoya is scheduled for his meet and greet Monday, April 11th, from 4 to 5 p.m.

Ram Raju's takes place Tuesday, April 12th, from 4 to 5 p.m. and Myles Lash is scheduled for his meet and greet Wednesday, April 13th, from 8 to 9 a.m.

All "Meet & Greet" events will take place at Jackson Memorial Hospital's Clark Diagnostic Treatment Center, Room 259, 1280 N.W. 19th Street in Miami.

The Public Health 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.

Whoever gets the job, they'll get a hefty pay check. The committee said earlier this year it was willing to pay "up to $975-thousand" for a new hospital chief. Roldan was 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.

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