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SFHEF Spotlight

ACHE/SFHEF Mentoring

and Education

Key to Career Advancement

BY VANESSA ORR

Sometimes the best way to advance in
a career is to follow in the steps of those

who are successful in the field. Zunner E.
Soliz, CPA, FACHE, manager of account-

ing services at Broward Health, first
joined the American College of
Healthcare Executives (ACHE) after real-
izing that her company’s CEO was a

Fellow; since then, she has continued to
take advantage of the mentoring services
provided by the organization.
“I first joined ACHE in December of
2013 when I was the finance manager at
the VA foundation,” explained Soliz.
“The new CEO of the Miami VA Zunner E. Soliz
Healthcare System was an ACHE Fellow,
and after researching the organization, I doing fits in.
realized that it could help me grow in my “The mentoring aspect is also very
career.” important to me; through ACHE, I con-
Soliz, who has been at Broward Health nected with a mentor in New Orleans,
for five years, works as an accounting and we spend time talking on the phone,
manager at the corporate level, oversee- with him giving me guidance on how I
ing the health system’s property, plant can grow as a leader,” she said, adding
and equipment. Her team is responsible that she has also signed up with the
for the acquisition of equipment and all organization to mentor others.
capital expenditures. While Soliz would like to serve on
Before joining Broward Health, Soliz SFHEF’s board, her current schedule
worked at the Miami VA for eight years, doesn’t allow for it as her job duties come
where she began as a bookkeeper and first.
later advanced to becoming the chief “I’ve been asked to join SFHEF’s board,
operating officer of the VA Foundation. but it meets on the first Wednesday of
She has a bachelor’s degree in the month, which is my busiest time
Accounting from the Universidad Mayor because I’m closing out financial state-
de San Simon, and holds a Master of ments for the prior month at that time,”
Science in Taxation from Florida she explained. “I would be doing the
International University. She is also a organization a disservice if I could not
Certified Public Accountant. attend the meetings.”
While there are many reasons that Soliz currently serves as the treasurer
Soliz appreciates her membership in of the Women’s Healthcare Executive
ACHE and its local chapter, the South Network (WHEN), and also served as a
Florida Healthcare Executive Forum board member of the American Women’s
(SFHEF), she especially appreciates the Society of Certified Public Accountants
educational opportunities that it pro- (AWSCPA). She also volunteers as a wish
vides. granter for the Make-A-Wish Foun -
“I try to go to almost every meeting dation.
and presentation because I learn so “I definitely recommend to others that
much,” she explained. “It really broadens they join SFHEF; I not only tell the peo-
my perspective. In accounting, it’s easy to ple at Broward Health, but I have submit-
Isn’t it time for an independent expert opinion just focus on the numbers, but these ted the recommendation to ACHE for
someone I met in church to fellow,” she
meetings help me better understand their
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