Resolution 6680 T
RESOLUTION NO. 6680
WHEREAS, the City of Miami Beach has made en Amended Applica-
tion for the acquisition from the War Assets Administration of the
Nautilus Hotel Property, end more specifically designated by the War
Assets Administration as V-Fla. 131, Nautilus Veterans Administration
Hospital; and
WHEREAS it has become necessary, in order that the City of
Miami Beech may qualify for full discount allowance on the fair value
of said property, to show its willingness and ability to develop and
utilize said property when acquired for a modern general hospital to
provide its immediate and proximate future needs in connection with
the immediate health program of the City of Miami Beach, and to demon-
strate the benefits to accrue to the United States thereupon; and
WHEREAS the Mt. Sinai Hospital of Greater Miami, Inc, , a non-
profit corporation organized and existing for the purpose of hospital
operation has heretofore fully demonstrated to the complete satisfac-
tion of the City Council of the City of Miami Beach its financial and
technical ability to finance, operate and manage efficiently a general
hospital, notably by its management and operation of Alton Road Hospi-
tal; and
WHEREAS it is desirable for the City of Miami Beach to have
the aid of said institution in the preparation of plans and specifica-
tions for and the eventual financing and operational management of the
projected general hospital of the City of Miami Beach to be developed
and operated on said Nautilus Hotel Property when acquired; and
WHEREAS the said institution has been invited to make a propo-
sel to the City of Miami Beach with reference to its undertaking to be
employed by the City of Miami Beach to finance, operate and manage said
general hospital when acquired as aforesaid; and
WHEREAS in response to this invitation, the said institution
has presented a. basic proposal with relation to such employment end the
collateral incidents thereof, a copy of which is attached hereto end
made a part hereof:
NOW, THEREFORE:
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Miami Beach
that said proposal be, and the same is hereby approved end accepted;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Manager as Hospital Com-
missioner, and the City Attorney be, and they are hereby authorized and
directed to prepare in agreement with the representatives of the Mt.
Sinai Hospital of Greater Miami, Inc, , the drafting of such instruments
and documents as may be necessary to put in legal form the full scope
and details of said approved and accepted proposal; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Mayor and the City Clerk of
Miami Beach be, and they are hereby a.uthori7ed end directed to execute
such instruments end documents as may be drafted and approved by the
City Manager as Hospital Commissioner and the City Attorney after such
full negotiation and agreement with representatives of the Mt. Sinai
Hospital of Greater Miami, Inc.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 17 day of November , 1948.
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AYOR
ATTEST:
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Mt. Sinai Hospital of Greater Miami, Inc.
420 Lincoln Road
Miami Beach, Florida
November 16, 1948
To the Honorables the Mayor and City Council
of the City of Miami Beach, Florida
In re: Nautilus Hotel Property
Gentlemen:
vie have been requested to restate the position of our institution in
connection with the City's Pending application for the acquisition from the War
Assets Administration of the property known as the Nautilus Hotel Property, for
use as a general hospital as part of its health program.
The City did our institution the honor of selling to us the Alton Road
Hospital. You have indicated that our operation of this Hospital was successful
and satisfactory in all respects, and has greatly relieved the health problems
and critical shortage of hospital facilities in the City. We appreciate deeply
therefore the further honor and confidence shown us by our being considered for
employment as the operating organization for the new general hospital which the
City seeks to establish if it acquires the Nautilus Hotel Property from the U. S.
Government.
',le have cooperated earnestly with the City in its efforts to acquire
this property from the War Assets Administration. We have aided the City in its
project by having surveys made by hospital architects and engineers, and hospital
administrative and operative experts in order to determine the needs of the City
for hospital facilities so that the essential hospital requirements of the health
program of the City could be ascertained. This has been done at our own cost and
without obligation on the part of the City to employ our organization as an operat-
ing unit of its general hospital. We considered our efforts in this regard as part
of the basic aims and purposes of our non-profit institution in the furtherance of
the health and progress of Greater Miami.
We are now cognizant of the situation relative to your acquisition of
the Nautilus Hotel Property from the Jnited States. There seem to be certain
conditions precedent which must be met:
(a) The establishment of the hospital needs of the City and an
immediate City health program to provide these needs.
(b) The establishment of the fact that the City requires the
whole of the Nautilus Hotel Property to fulfill the hospital needs of
the City's Health Program.
(c) The demonstration of ability of the City to furnish the
finances, to provide the buildings, equipment and personnel and
costs to develop, maintain and operate the general hospital on the
property as planned by the City's health program.
As to (a) : The hospital needs in the health program of the City have
already been developed by your and our experts, and these have already been sub-
stantially presented to the Jar Assets Administration.
As to (b) : The requirement of the whole of the property is a fact that
cannot be gainsaid. Without Collins and Johns Islands, the general hospital phase
of the City's health program will be restricted to mere emergency relief and lim-
ited to one or two year planning. The City's health program is''to adapt, rehabil-
itate and re-equip the old Nautilus Hotel building to provide 100 hospital beds
and all necessary appurtenances within the shortest time possible; and simultan-
eously to complete the plans and specifications and thereupon commence construc-
tion of and pursue to completion a new general hospital building on Collins Island
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for at least 120 additional beds, but so designed as to permit expansion to a
total of 300 additional beds, as further needed. The program provides that the
new hospital on Collins Island is to be devoted to acute cases. The old Nautilus
Hotel building is then to be converted into a chronic and convalescent hospital
which is greatly needed, and to which purpose the old building is most adaptable.
The City's program also requires Johns Island for the immediate development of a
health center for the treatment, care and rehabilitation of sufferers from crip-
pling diseases such as polios, spastics, arthritics, and the like, of which the
communities in our area have an unusually large number.: It should be apparent to
any unprejudiced person that the whole of the Nautilus property is indispensable
to the City's immediate health program.
As to (c) : It is with respect to the City's ability to finance and
fulfill the general hospital phase of the City's health program that we believe
our institution can be of service, since they involve matters for which we are
especially organized and in which we enjoy established experience, reputation
and ability.
In the event that the City of iIiami Beach is awarded the whole of the
Nautilus property with full public benefit allowance by War Assets Administration,
our institution is ready, able and willing to aid the City in the carrying out of
all its oblivations incurred in the acquisition of the property in the following
respects:
1. ,/ To begin within 30 days after the acquisition and to carry on to
completion without delay the rehabilitation and re-equipment of the old
Nautilus Hotel building as a 100 bed general hospital; and upon completion
thereof to operate it as such in compliance with the standards of the
American Hospital Association and the American College of Surgeons.`
2. , Simultaneously we will engage the necessary hospital architects
and engineers and other essential experts to prepare plans and specifi-
cations for a new 300 bed main hospital building of about five stories
on Collins Island, and within three months after the completion of such
plans and specifications to ask for bids for the construction of at least
two stories thereof with a minimum capacity of 120 beds, and to build,
complete, and place same in operation without undue delay (delays beyond
our control excepted) .'
3. To extend progressively the new main hospital building on Collins
Island to approximately five stories and its minimum capacity to 300 beds
total as the increased needs are presented.
4. To operate and manage the new hospital building on Collins Island
when completed for acute cases, and to convert and operate the old Nautilus
Hotel building as a chronic and convalescent hospital.
5. To develop, operate and manage Johns Island as a health center
for the treatment, care and rehabilitation of crippledpersons, such as
polios, spastics, arthritics, and similar types of patients:
6. In the foregoing, we shall not bind or obligate the City for cash
or expenses or other obligations incurred in the construction, equipping,
operation or maintenance of said hospit2l buildings, and we shall hold
the City harmless for any liability or indebtedness incurred by us or
resulting from our management or operation of the hospital; and we shall
undertake the complete financing of the project.;
7. We shall develop and operate the hospital so as to provide proper
departmentalization, and to provide an adequate availability of beds for
low-income patients at rates comparable to the charges made by other non-
profit hospitals in this area and to provide the City upon request, hos-
pital, clinical and out-patient treatment for indigent residents of the
City at equitable rates comparable tocharges made to municipalities by
other non-profit hospitals in Greater Yiami.
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8. We shall conduct and operate the hospital in accordance with
the Charter and By-Laws of our organization and the rules and regula-
tions of our Board of Trustees, and shall counsel and advise with the
City's Hospital Commissioner..
9. ' We shall keep all buildings and equipment fully insured against
loss by fire with extended coverage in sufficient amounts to avoid the
City's assumption of co-insurance and against public liability in amount
of : 100,000/500,000, and such other insurance as may be necessary.'
10. We will fulfill and perform and comply with all conditions placed
upon the conveyance of the property by the War Assets Administration.
We will undertake the foregoing, subject to the following conditions:
(a) That our employment of management and operation shall be for a
period of twenty-five years from the date of the City's acquisition of
title to the Nautilus Hotel property as a whole.
(b) That after the expiration of twenty years, and before twenty-
five years from the date of said acquisition of title, we shp1l have an
irrevocable option to purchase the property and all improvements and
personal property thereon or appurtenances thereto or in anywise belong-
ing, at a price equivalent to the fair value of the property established
by the War Assets Administration at the time of acquisition by the City,
namely, $1,400,000, receiving credit however upon such purchase price for
all moneys expended by us for alterations, repairs and for the construc-
tion and equipment of buildings and permanent improvements placed thereon
during our period of operation and management, but in no event shall the
credit exceed $1,400,000.
If the foregoing outline is agreeable to you in substance and principle,
upon the passage of a resolution by your body approving and accepting same and
authorizing your appropriate officials to negotiate the details with our represent-
atives, to draft the formal legal documents to make firm the matter, we shall be
pleased to proceed to the consummation of the arrangement.
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