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Around the Region… Around When It Comes to Patient Care,

One Little Thing Can Wreck It All

Broward Health’s Barry Gallison

to Lead AHNA As an experienced one of the lot attendants.
traveler, I am always ‘You’re kidding right?’ was
Barry Gallison, corporate director of clinical quality and looking for the best what I was thinking.
risk management at Broward Health, has been appointed value for my dollar. However, I did what most
president of the American Holistic Nurses Association Recently when I saw in a polite society do and
(AHNA). Prior to being named AHNA president, he served that my usual rental car dragged my stuff back to
on the organization’s board of directors as treasurer for two company wanted a small the car, reloaded everything
terms. fortune for a two-day and moved it. As I exited, I
Gallison is a certified holistic nurse leader with more than Barry Gallison rental, I began shopping watched as the courtesy
25 years of experience in clinical and nursing operations, around. I landed on a shuttle pulled away. I gave
quality management and performance improvement. In addition to his role at Broward company I had never the guy a quick, ‘what the
Health, Gallison also holds a faculty advisor position at the Birch Tree Center for used before. Despite BY JAY JUFFRE heck’ glare as I once again
Healthcare Transformation, where he advises in the Integrative Healing Arts Program, being a new customer, grabbed my belongings and
and is a manuscript reviewer for the Journal of Holistic Nursing. He is on the Advisory booking was simple. I headed over to wait for the
Board for the Advanced Holistic Nursing Master’s Degree at the Christine E. Lynn got plenty of email next shuttle. This exact
College of Nursing at Florida Atlantic University. reminders. When I went to get my car, I same scenario happens every day when
Gallison graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1995 from Point Loma was told, ‘in appreciation of you as a it comes to patient care. Everything
Nazarene University in San Diego, California. After graduating, he relocated to New new customer’, here is a free upgrade. about a visit, procedure, or overnight
York Presbyterian Hospital to begin his holistic nursing career as a senior staff nurse ‘These guys are pretty good, I thought’ stay is going great and then one, just
on a vascular surgical floor. His subsequent roles at New York Presbyterian Hospital as I positioned myself in a brand new one, employee ruins the whole thing.
included geriatric nurse practitioner, patient care director and director of nursing sedan. My two-day business trip Train your entire team, top to bottom,
quality and improvement initiatives. Gallison later received his Doctor of Nursing wrapped up and I proceeded back to the to always put themselves in the patient’s
Practice from Stony Brook University, where he completed his research on acute care airport. It was rush hour, so the return and their family’s shoes. Don’t let a lack
nurses spiritual care practices. area was very busy. I followed the signs of training or universal compassion pre-
and parked my car behind the others, vent you from delivering your best.
exited, and grabbed my things. ‘I’m
using these guys again. This was Jay Juffre is Executive Vice President,
smooth.’, is what I was thinking as I ImageFIRST. For more information on
Nicklaus Children’s Hospital hurried towards the courtesy shuttle. ImageFIRST, call 1-800-932-7472 or visit
And then I heard the voice that ruined www.imagefirst.com.
Foundation Appoints Ed Jachim everything. “Hey, can you pull your car
over here and start a new row?” It was
as Director of Development
for Major Gifts

Nicklaus Children’s Hospital Foundation has appointed Ed
Jachim as Director of Development – Major Gifts at Nicklaus
Children’s Hospital Foundation, the fundraising arm of Ed Jachim
Nicklaus Children’s Health System.
Jachim has over 25 years of senior and executive level experience in the profit, non-
profit, and higher education sectors developing and executing growth strategies, per-
formance metrics management, creating engagement activities, and facilitating phil-
anthropic priorities. Prior to joining the Foundation, Jachim spent the last four years
working for the American Red Cross South Florida Region as the Director of
Development where he personally raised a total of $3 million.
Jachim graduated from the State University of New York at Potsdam with a BA in
psychology and a minor in economics. In addition, he was a two-time basketball All-
American and NCAA national champion. These accomplishments eventually led him
to tryout with the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association.

Dawn White Named VP of

Government and Community
Relations for Baptist Health

Baptist Health South Florida named Dawn White as its
new Vice President of Government and Community
Relations.
White is an accomplished government affairs executive
with experience developing and implementing comprehen-
sive government relations strategies and policies to protect Dawn White
and promote business interests. For the past 23 years she worked for American
Airlines, where she was Director of State and Local Government Affairs, responsible
for the development, implementation, and management of the company’s governmen-
tal priorities and policies in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
She joined the airline in the early days of its Miami hub and was the first and only one
to hold this position in Miami.
Prior to her work at American Airlines, White served as Director of Government
Relations at Jackson Memorial Hospital, Director of State Intergovernmental Affairs at
Miami-Dade County, Executive Director of the Dade County Legislative Delegation,
and Legislative Aide to former State Representative Mike Abrams.

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