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Volume 15 • Issue 4 • $5.00 October 2018
THE REGION’S MONTHLY NEWSPAPER FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS & PHYSICIANS

Let’s Connect:

SFHEF Spotlight

October 2018

Jonathan E. Watkins is an accomplished healthcare
professional who began his leadership career in
Memphis, TN with the Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare
Jeffrey M. Welch system. There he quickly earned the respect and support Matthew Johnson
of peers, physicians, and the system’s senior executives,
and in 2013 was named Vice President/Chief Operating
Homecoming: Officer of Methodist North Hospital. In 2016 he joined Century
Kaiser Permanente as the Chief Operating Officer of
Jeff Welch Returns Northern California’s Central Valley Service Area. There Ambulance
he directed and coordinated the day-to-day operations of
the area’s hospitals before moving back to the southeast
to Florida as New where he currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Jonathan E. Joins Broward
Broward Health’s Imperial Point Hospital in Fort
CEO of Florida Lauderdale, FL. Watkins County Health
Jonathan holds a master’s degree in Public Chief Executive
Medical Center and Administration with a certification in Health Officer Landscape
Administration, as well as a Bachelor’s Degree in
Healthcare Administration and Planning from Tennessee Broward Health
Tenet Healthcare’s State University. He is also a certified Six Sigma Black Belt BY BARBARA R. FALLON
and board certified in healthcare management as a Imperial Point
Miami-Dade Group Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives Hospital South Florida is seeing a lot more

Continued on page 31 Orange these days, and no it’s not the
Miami Hurricanes, it’s Broward County’s
BY DANIEL CASCIATO newest ambulance service, a welcome
Legal Update upgrade to the Broward County land-
Jeffrey M. Welch was recently scape.
appointed as chief executive officer of Hospitals, Don’t Let TV As of July, Century Ambulance has
Florida Medical Center (FMC) and expanded services to Broward County
Tenet’s Miami-Dade Group, which con- Cameras Roll Without and is providing patient transport and
sists of a network of five hospitals: pioneering new logistics for area clients
Coral Gables Hospital, Florida Medical and their patients.
Center, Hialeah Hospital, North Shore First Obtaining With a quality reputation built over 3
Medical Center and Palmetto General decades of service in 5 Florida counties,
Hospital. Welch will be responsible for Patients’ Permission Century Ambulance began providing
overseeing all strategic, operational and customer focused basic life support
clinical activities at FMC, and provide (BLS), advanced life support (ALS), and
oversight and leadership for the other Reality television programs addressing a broad array of Critical Care Transportation (CCT) serv-
hospitals in the Miami-Dade Group. topics—including shows featuring health care providers ices to Broward County from a new sta-
“It’s a great community facility and it furnishing medical services to patients—have permeated tion in Ft. Lauderdale. This latest expan-
has a family atmosphere,” says Welch. many network and cable channel offerings. From 1997 sion will be Century Ambulance’s 12th
“Many of the staff and clinicians have through 2002, TLC aired “Trauma: Life in the ER,” a BY PATRICIA A. MARKUS county of operation and its first outside
been here for years—some for as long weekly show featuring cases at different Level One trau- of North Florida and the Florida
as 40 years.” ma centers and emergency rooms throughout the United States. The show’s production Panhandle, where it already provides
Prior to his appointment to Florida was terminated, in part, because the then-recently-enacted Health Insurance Portability close to 90,000 transports per year. Ft.
Medical Center, Welch was CEO at
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