Commissioner Laura Raybin Miller is a dedicated public servant, community leader, and advocate renowned for her unwavering commitment to advancing Broward’s public healthcare system, ensuring best-in-class healthcare, and enhancing the quality of life for all residents. Commissioner Laura Raybin Miller is the longest-serving (25 years) member of the South Broward Hospital District Board of Commissioners – the seven-member district board that governs Memorial Healthcare System, a public, nonprofit hospital system nationally recognized for providing outstanding patient and family-centered care. During her 25-year tenure in the hospital district, she is most proud of the establishment and funding for the comprehensive breast cancer center. Women diagnosed with breast cancer no longer have to leave the community for best-in-class gold-standard care for their treatment. Memorial offers a full range of specialists and treatments from diagnosis to reconstruction and therapeutics for recovery. As a long-standing Commissioner of the system, she has focused on the principles of excellence for corporate governance, which is the most defined by her tenure on the board. As a board member, she seeks to promote greater transparency and the implementation of best practices and accountability. In 2017, Commissioner Miller earned her Fellowship certification in Board Governance from the National Association of Corporate Governance (NACD).
Throughout her service on the board, she has pursued initiatives that have aligned her with the causes close to her heart. She has been an unwavering advocate for breast cancer awareness and was instrumental in the creation of Memorial’s comprehensive Breast Cancer Center. She is a dedicated champion for children’s access to healthcare, regardless of their socio-economic status and she currently serves on the boards of Kids In Distress and Children’s Harbor. She is an active 8-year volunteer and mentor for Women of Tomorrow, mentoring young teenage girls at risk at the high school level, and has established the Memorial Healthcare Scholarship for Medical College Education for Women of Tomorrow high school graduates and deserving recipients. Commissioner Raybin Miller has garnered a series of political appointments over the years, including in August 1999 by Governor Jeb Bush to the South Broward Hospital District, followed thereafter by five consecutive re-appointments to the District (for four-year terms) by Governor Jeb Bush, Governor Charlie Crist, Governor Rick Scott and she is proudly serving in her sixth term on the District board under Governor Ron DeSantis. In 2001, Commissioner Raybin Miller was appointed by President George W. Bush to the United States Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, a Commission that was established by Congress for the purpose of identification and preservation of cemeteries, monuments and religious and historic and cultural sites of importance in central and eastern Europe. That same year, Commissioner Raybin Miller was also appointed by Florida Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher to the Healthy Kids, a state-wide board established to provide healthcare to more than 200,000 children throughout Florida.
