Nokomis Hospital

<p><strong>Corruption runs deep at Nokomis Hospital and those responsible will do anything to hide it.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Florida Fall 1984</strong>-When reporter Jack Kendall rushes his wife Bobbie to Nokomis Hospital he expects a well-run community facility-stocked with supplies and staffed adequately. He doesn't expect a conspiracy that endangers patients and threatens the future of the 200-bed hospital serving a quiet coastal town in Sarasota County.</p><p>As Bobbie fights for her life Jack uncovers a darker truth: CEO Mike Lard and his inner circle have been secretly draining the hospital dry.</p><p>Embezzlement kickbacks drug abuse fraudulent contracts-just the beginning. When Jack starts asking Lard tough questions he discovers the corruption isn't just financial. It's dangerous.</p><p>As Nokomis Hospital struggles with greed mismanagement and the pressures of Medicare's new DRG system Jack turns to courageous insiders-vice president of nursing Nicole McIntosh and accountant Terry Myles-who are willing to risk everything to reveal the truth. However Lard and his allies will go to any lengths to hide their crimes-including threatening the whistleblowers and targeting the reporter who's getting too close.</p><p>Set in the early 1980s-an era of deregulation shifting healthcare economics and rising costs-<em>Nokomis Hospital</em> the fourth book in the investigative reporter Jack Kendall Mystery series is a compelling realistic story about power corruption and the cost of speaking out.</p><p></p>