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Maureen Martin Joins Broward VITAS® Healthcare Promotes
Health Coral Springs as CFO Five Leaders in South Florida

Broward Health Coral Springs has named Maureen Martin Kathleen Coronado Promoted to Associate
its new Chief Financial Officer. Martin is a strategic leader General Manager in Broward County
with more than 30 years of experience managing hospitals’ Kathleen Coronado, RN, joined VITAS® Healthcare in 2006
operating revenues. Martin most-recently worked at St. as a home care nurse in Broward County. She attributes her
Vincent HealthCare in Jacksonville, FL, where she was the successful career trajectory at VITAS to the support and guid-
vice president of finance for the last four years. She also ance of her leadership team, hard work and desire to bring the
worked for Miami Children’s Health Systems and in best care to VITAS patients and families. During her career at Kathleen Coronado
Columbus, Ohio, at OhioHealth, Mount Carmel Health Maureen Martin VITAS, Coronado rose through the ranks from nurse to team
System and Riverside Methodist Hospital. Martin has a manager, then IPU manager and prior to her promotion, as patient care administrator.
Master of Business Administration from Capital University and received her bachelor’s Before joining VITAS, Coronado worked as an RN in critical care and emergency
degree in business administration from Kent State University. department settings at various Broward hospitals like Memorial Hospital West, Kindred
Hospital Hollywood, Westside Regional Medical Center and North Shore Medical Center
in Miami. She is an alumna of Broward College and Chamberlain University.
West Boca Medical Center Appoints
Annette Requena Promoted to Associate
New Chief Executive Officer General Manager in Miami-Dade and Monroe
Annette Requena, BSN, joined VITAS® Healthcare in 2007
West Boca Medical Center appoints George Rizzuto as its as a home care nurse and was promoted to home care team
new chief executive officer. Rizzuto has more than 35 years manager in 2011. In 2014 she served as inpatient team manag-
of hospital leadership experience as a healthcare executive er and was promoted again to patient care administrator in
with extensive experience in hospital operations and 2016.
finance, as well as public accounting. Prior to VITAS, Requena worked as a registered nurse at
Rizzuto will be replacing longtime CEO Mitch Feldman, Baptist Hospital in the neurology, medical-surgical and teleme-
who is retiring from West Boca Medical Center and Tenet try unit where she worked closely with patients, physicians,
Healthcare after close to 30 years of service to the organiza- George Rizzuto therapists and social services. She earned a bachelor’s degree in
tion. Feldman’s strong work ethic, knowledge and determi- nursing from University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. Annette Requena
nation to deliver high quality care, built a strong and successful foundation at West
Boca Medical Center. Rizzuto returns to Tenet from a former sister facility, St. Erika Gaudio Promoted to
Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, PA, where he served as the CEO, Senior Vice President of Sales
and prior to that, chief financial officer of the hospital. Rizzuto also served as vice Erika Gaudio provides leadership and execution to VITAS®
president of operations at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. Prior Healthcare’s nationwide sales organization and enhances the
to this, George served in leadership roles at Central Montgomery Medical Center, elevation of VITAS’ educational approach and marketing collat-
Warminster Hospital and Abington Memorial Hospital. erals. She joined VITAS® Healthcare in 2009 as a representa-
tive in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was promoted the follow-
ing year to director of market development. She transferred in
Florida Cancer Specialists & Research the same role to Broward County and was promoted to senior
then regional director of market development in the following
Institute Welcomes Nathan H. years. In 2016, Gaudio assumed responsibility for the sales
training function and was promoted to VP of Sales. Erika Gaudio
Walcker as Chief Financial Officer Gaudio is a licensed Assisted Living Facility Administrator in
the state of Florida. She earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration and mas-
Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute (FCS) is ter’s degree in organizational studies and leadership from Robert Morris University in
pleased to announce the appointment of Nathan H. Walcker Pittsburgh.
to the Executive Leadership Team as Chief Financial Officer.
Walcker brings over a decade of diverse healthcare indus- Julio Rodriguez-Simon Promoted
try experience and finance expertise to FCS, most recently Nathan H. Walcker to Senior Vice President of Software
serving as an integral member of Bank of America Merrill Engineering and Senior Data Officer
Lynch’s healthcare investment banking group, where he was responsible for advising In 2017, Julio Rodriguez-Simon joined VITAS® Healthcare
leading healthcare companies on mergers, acquisitions, and capital structure strate- as VP of Business Intelligence and Senior Data Officer. Since
gies. Walcker earned an MBA from Columbia Business School and a bachelor’s degree joining the IT team, his responsibilities doubled when he
in Economics from Columbia University. began managing all development activity for VITAS. His lead-
ership, drive and dedication have attracted top technologists to
the VITAS IT team, securing the delivery of the most advanced
Dwight D. Chenette, MPH, MBA, data warehouse in healthcare.
Rodriguez-Simon had a track record for delivery prior to
Selected as CEO of Area Agency on joining VITAS, serving as director for global technical support Julio Rodriguez-Simon
for Citrix, and as senior director of analytics for Anda, Inc., one
Aging of Palm Beach/Treasure Coast of South Florida’s leading pharmacy distribution companies. He earned a master’s degree
in Physics, specializing in Microelectronics, from Universidad Complutense de Madrid
The Area Agency on Aging of Palm Beach/Treasure Coast, in Spain.
Inc. has chosen Dwight D. Chenette, a man with a passion to
the mission of caring for people, augmented with leadership Emily Hill Promoted to Vice President of Strategy
skills, financial acumen and an understanding of program- and Analytics
ming necessary to promote independence, dignity and well- Dwight D. Chenette Emily Hill leads the effort to transform the way VITAS®
being of seniors and adults with disabilities. Healthcare uses technology and data. In 2014, she joined
With a Master of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg VITAS as an internal management consultant and was later pro-
School of Public Health and a Master of Business Administration from Rensselaer moted to centralized intake and billing administrator for pallia-
Polytechnic Institute at Hartford, Chenette is an executive with significant experience tive care, and then to director roles in revenue cycle and inno-
in non-profit management and a dedication to supporting healthy communities. He vation and strategy. Prior to joining VITAS, she collaborated
served for 17 years at the Health Care District of Palm Beach County, ten of those with the University of Miami Health System’s (U-Health)
years as its CEO. For the last eight years Chenette served as president for a HMO serv- process improvement teams and served as director of volun-
ing Medicaid. teers for a hospice provider in Miami.
Hill earned a bachelor’s degree in History from Yale Emily Hill
University and a master’s degree in Psychology from the
Southern Connecticut State University, both located in New Haven, Connecticut.
Additionally, she earned a master’s degree in Business Administration from the University
of Miami in Coral Gables.

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