Lisa Zahner

1 week ago | veronews.com | Lisa Zahner

Across 37th Street from the main campus of Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital, almost 2,000 patients are admitted each year to a facility most Vero Beach residents are likely to never see from the inside. This is the Behaviorial Health Center, a place of last resort for the county’s most depressed or even suicidal people, for those who have stopped taking their psychiatric medications or need to start them, for those whose world seems temporarily terrifying.

1 week ago | veronews.com | Lisa Zahner

Water-Sewer Director Rob Bolton has figured out a way to move forward with Vero’s new state-of-the-art sewer plant despite the city’s current financial and credit challenges. Bolton now plans to wait until 2026 – when the city’s audit troubles will have hopefully passed – before seeking an estimated $140 million in bond funding to finance the portion of the $177 million project not expected to be covered by state or federal grants.

1 week ago | veronews.com | Lisa Zahner

Vero Beach Elementary Principal Lyndsey Samberg will bid her students and faculty adieu at the close of the school year to become a St. Ed’s Pirate as Associate Head of St. Edward’s Lower School. The hire seems to be quite a get for St. Ed’s as Samberg is one of the local school district’s most successful young principals, praised for her innovation, problem-solving capabilities and dedication to the district’s Moonshot literacy efforts.

2 weeks ago | veronews.com | Lisa Zahner

EDITOR’S NOTE:  Late in the afternoon of April 8, following questions from Vero Beach 32963, the City of Vero Beach amended its response to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ DOGE Team to disclose its failure to file its fiscal year 2022-23 audit, and the missed contributions to the fire and police pension plans. The amended response was sent to Tallahassee after this week’s print edition had gone to press. Local governments here have all filed their responses to letters from Gov.

2 weeks ago | veronews.com | Lisa Zahner

Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital filed its annual financial report for its half-billion Vero Beach operation last week, showing a 21 percent decrease in operating losses from 2023, a $4 million increase in charity care provided to the county’s indigent patients, improved patient experience scores, and slightly decreased mortality and re-admission rates within a month from discharge from hospital care.