That's the number my staff has kicked around over the years.

Employees, medical staff, volunteers and visitors who use tobacco are not required to quit, but only refrain from using tobacco products while on the hospital campus. However, if people do want to quit we will have support programs in place to help them.

There are fatalities. We don't have a number.

There's a significant number of the staff, the normal, assigned staff, that no longer have homes to go to. So they are living and working in the hospital.

We absolutely positively have to do some major belt-tightening. We're accumulating debt at such an alarming rate it is truly unsustainable.

Since I was asked to take over management of the Real Estate Assets Department, our chief mission has been to enhance revenues and support critical city projects.