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Palm Beach Atlantic University Lee Health Board

Appoints King Dean of Nursing of Directors Officers

Provost and Chief Academic Officer E. Randolph Richards for 2020
has appointed Dr. Phyllis King, professor of nursing, as dean
of the School of Nursing. Lee Health is pleased to announce
King is known to her peers as a professional whose passion the newly elected officers of its
is preparing nurses for servant-leadership roles from a Board of Directors for 2020.
Christ-centered perspective. She works through team-build- David F. Collins has been elected
ing and a collaborative leadership style to maximize the Dr. Phyllis King as Board Chairman for 2020. A resi- David F. Collins Therese Everly
potential of her nursing colleagues and her students. Her dent of Lee county since 1984, he
long career in faith-based academia as well as her experiences in acute and commu- has been a mortgage banker for
nity nursing practice benefit her students, Richards said. more than 29 years and has served as
King earned her doctorate from the University of Tennessee in nursing, and is a a board member for PACE Center for
trained educator for the Robert Wood Johnson’s End-of-Life Nursing Education Girls of Lee County, and as treasurer
Consortium. Her nursing practice and research in end-of-life care, utilizing both qual- for the PACE Capital Campaign. In
itative and quantitative research, have resulted in opportunities to present at interna- 2018 he served on the Junior
tional and national conferences such as Sigma Theta Tau, the International Nursing Achievement Hall of Fame
Honor Society, the Southern Nursing Research Society, Rutgers University Continuing Committee and serves on the De
Education and the Mayo Clinic. LaSalle Academy Finance Com -
King joined the nursing faculty at Palm Beach Atlantic in 2011. mittee. Graduate of Leadership Lee
County Class of 2012.
Therese Everly has been elected as
VITAS® Healthcare President and Vice Chairman. She is a Registered Donna Clarke Diane Champion
Respiratory Therapist and licensed
CEO Nick Westfall Joins NHPCO Florida Realtor who also serves on the boards of the Lee County Homeless Coalition
and Alzheimer’s Association Florida Gulfcoast Chapter. Everly has served as a mem-
Board Of Directors ber of the City of Cape Coral Financial Advisory Board, Human Trafficking Awareness
Partnerships Board and is a former adjunct professor at Florida Southwestern State
President and CEO Nick Westfall of VITAS® Healthcare College. She has over 30 years of health care and management experience accompa-
has been named one of seven new members of the board of nied by a degree in health care administration.
directors of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Donna Clarke has been elected as Treasurer. She is a former Florida State
Organization (NHPCO). Representative and has served as an adjunct professor with State College of Florida.
Westfall joined VITAS in 2012 to lead the company’s field Clarke earned a master’s degree in Industrial Management from Georgia Institute of
operations, becoming chief operating officer in 2015 and Nick Westfall Technology, and has previously owned and operated an environmental consulting
president and CEO in 2016. He previously was director of firm. She currently is co-president of the Fort Myers Kiwanis Club and has served as
information and technology and operations for Chemed Corporation (NYSE: CHE), vice-chair of the STARS Advisory Board. She has also volunteered as a math tutor at
the parent company of VITAS. Prior to Chemed, he was a senior manager at Deloitte the Pace Center for Girls of Lee County.
and Touche LLP. Diane Champion has been elected as Secretary. Nine-year Board liaison to the Lee
Westfall is a member of the Advisory Board to Programs in Health Management and Health Volunteers.
Policy at the University of Miami Business School and a board member The Coalition She was a business owner/manager for 40 years, resident of Lehigh Acres for 41
to Transform Advanced Care (CTAC). In 2018, he received a CEO Today Healthcare years. She has served as the Committee Chair for Children’s Activities of the American
Award. Cancer Society’s Relay for Life event and is an elected member of the Community
Westfall earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Council of Lehigh Acres as well as a volunteer at Southwest Florida International
Dayton in Ohio and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Airport.
Michigan Ross School of Business.
FIU Nursing Names Dr. Ellen Brown
Boca Raton Regional Hospital as the Wallace Gilroy Endowed

Assistant Vice President Elected as Faculty Scholar for Her Research on
Vice Chair of the American Cancer Elderly Care and Caregiver Support

Society Cancer Action Network
Ellen Brown, E.d.D., F.A.A.N., an associate professor of
Maureen Mann, assistant vice president of Boca Raton graduate nursing at Florida International University’s (FIU)
Regional Hospital’s Eugene M. & Christine E. Lynn Cancer Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing & Health Sciences, has Dr. Ellen Brown
Institute and Christine E. Lynn Women's Health & Wellness Maureen Mann been named as the Wallace Gilroy Endowed Faculty Scholar.
Institute, has recently been elected as vice chair of the The two-year appointment, made possible through the
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). Wallace Gilroy Endowed Nursing Research Fund established by the Hugoton
In her role as vice chair, Mann will work with other leadership at the ACS CAN to Foundation and Joan K. Stout, R.N, will promote her research specializing on caregiv-
leverage the power of government to end suffering and death from cancer. She will ing in the aging population.
work with volunteers across the country to educate elected officials on important can- The appointment will further Dr. Brown’s current collaboration with Miami Jewish
cer-fighting policies that positively impact legislation by supporting cancer research, Health to evaluate the impact of empathy in health care delivery for older adults,
prevention and treatment. many living with dementia. For the past two years, Dr. Brown has been working with
Mann previously served on the ACS CAN’s Board of Directors as treasurer. She was Marc E. Agronin, M.D., Senior Vice President, Behavioral Health and Chief Medical
a leader in Florida’s successful effort to raise the state’s cigarette excise tax by $1 per Officer for Miami Jewish Health’s MIND Institute, to pilot Miami Jewish EmpathiCare
pack in 2009, the first increase in more than two decades. She played a key role in SM.
defeating a proposal to cut millions from Florida’s tobacco control program earlier this Dr. Brown was also instrumental in developing the CareHeroes web and smart-
year and she helped grow the South Florida Policy Forum into one of the largest ACS phone app. The app is designed to improve dementia care coordination between prac-
CAN fundraising events in the country. titioner and family caregiver two-fold: (1) through a secure platform for sharing clin-
ical information in real time with greater accuracy, and (2) access to multi-media edu-
cational content on Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Dementias (ADRD) and caregiving
including with the CareHeroes chatbot. The CareHeroes app also serves as a stand-
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10 April 2020 southfloridahospitalnews.com South Florida Hospital News