Lee County to vote on Lee Health conversion Oct. 28

Author: Therese McDevitt, Gulfshore Business
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The final vote by the Lee County Board of Commissioners on Lee Health’s conversion from a public nonprofit to a private nonprofit will take place in a special meeting at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 28, after being rescheduled due to the approach of Hurricane Milton earlier this month.

The vote expected by most observers to pass after a series of sometimes contentious meetings, will bring to a close a year-long process that started with a legislative Enabling Act in 2023 that made exploring the conversion possible.

According to the schedule set up in the legislative act, the vote was supposed to have taken place by mid-October, but Oct. 9, the day Hurricane Milton made landfall, Florida’s Division of Emergency Management issued an emergency order under the authority of Gov. Ron DeSantis that “extends the voting deadline and authorizes the Lee County Board of Commissioners and Lee Health to complete the conversion process in the coming weeks.”

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