DOCTORS OF INTEREST
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Treasure Coast Medical Report
LEONARDO MANDINA
Age: 64
Lives in: Vero Beach
Occupation: Family medical
practitioner
Family: Wife, Maria; daughters
Maria, 32; Christina, 26.
Education: B.S. University of Miami;
Medical School University of
Zaragoza in Spain; Family practice
residency, South Bend, Ind.
Hobbies: Breeding Andalusian show horses
What inspires me: “My religion, my faith, my family.”
Something most people don’t know about me: “I coached
basketball at John Carroll High School in Fort Pierce and my
daughters broke all the team records. It was enjoyable.”
ficult, dealing with Medicare, insurance and paperwork.”
Mandina is one of many Vero Beach doctors offering a
concierge service. For an annual fee, the patient can call his
cell phone 24 hours a day. People usually don’t call at 2 a.m.
when it can wait until morning, he said. Also part of the service,
Mandina will go to the hospital as soon as he can once
a patient has been admitted. He also develops an even closer
relationship with the concierge patients.
While he is known for his ability to diagnose human illnesses,
Mandina has become a bit of a veterinarian, breeding
more than 100 Andalusian horses on the 10-acre Hacienda
del Sol (ranch of the sun) farm west of Vero Beach. He credits
wife, Maria, who also emigrated from Cuba, with running
their 18-stall operation. Each stall has a video camera and
when mares are about to give birth, they are monitored from
the main house so the couple can run out and check on them
as a parent would for a child.
“Birthing is an amazing sight when the mare delivers and
then raising the colt,” Mandina said. “But my wife is the
breeder. My wife and I always liked horses. I love the breeding
aspect. Our black stallion is best sire of the breed and is
well-known in Spain.”
Because of some back issues, he doesn’t ride much, but
Mandina does all of the stable grunt work and then some.
When daughter Maria said she wanted to have a horse,
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In traditional Spanish dress,
daughters Christina, left,
and Maria give some love to
Triunfador IV, one of more
than 100 Andalusian horses
born and raised on their
father’s farm.
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