Staff ‘cared for, supported and sheltered more than 4,000 people’ during storm. Sarasota Memorial Hospital (SMH) facilities in Sarasota and Venice — as well as the freestanding Emergency Room in North Port — fared well during Hurricane Milton’s passage through Sarasota County, “despite heavy winds, rain and surges nearby,” the health care system reported in a statement that it issued midafternoon on Oct. 10.