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Cleveland Clinic Delray Medical Center and Tenet

Announces New Health’s Palm Beach Group Appoint

Regional Leadership New Chief Operating Officer

Structure in Florida Delray Medical Center names Stephen Garner as its Chief
Operating Officer beginning in 2019, and he will also be the
Cleveland Clinic has announced a Group COO for Tenet Health’s Palm Beach hospitals. Garner
new regional leadership structure in previously worked for sister hospital Abrazo Arrowhead
Florida. The current CEO and Dr. Wael Barsoum Dr. Joseph Iannotti Hospital, a nationally-recognized 217-bed acute care hospi- Stephen Garner
President of Cleveland Clinic Florida, tal in Arizona, where he was the COO for the last three
Wael Barsoum, M.D., will serve as the years.
CEO and president of the Cleveland Prior to his promotion to COO, Garner served in Tenet Healthcare’s Executive
Clinic Florida region. Dr. Barsoum Development Program at Abrazo Arrowhead. He also completed a seven-month resi-
completed an orthopaedic surgery dency at RegionalCare Hospital Partners in Tennessee.
residency at Cleveland Clinic in 2000 Garner holds a Master of Business Administration, Juris Doctorate, and Bachelor of
and re-joined the staff after his fellow- Business Administration degrees from Baylor University.
ship in 2001 in Naples. He then
returned to Cleveland in 2003 as a
member of the Orthopaedic Surgery University of Miami Health System
staff. As a part of this new Cleveland
Clinic Florida structure, under Dr. Welcomes Stephen L. Demers as
Barsoum’s leadership, the following Dr. Rodolfo J. Blandon Dr. Robert L. Lord, Jr.
positions have been developed. New Chief Operating Officer
Joseph Iannotti, M.D., Ph.D., chair of Cleveland Clinic’s
Orthopaedic and Rheumatologic Institute for nearly two The University of Miami Health System is pleased to
decades, has been named Chief of Staff for the Cleveland Clinic announce Stephen L. Demers as its new chief operating offi-
region in Florida. Dr. Iannotti joined Cleveland Clinic in 2000. cer.
In addition to his clinical practice as an orthopaedic surgeon, Demers has more than 30 years’ experience leading oper-
Dr. Iannotti has been the co-director of the Orthopaedic ations in academic, community, and military health care sys-
Research Center, with a joint appointment in the department tems, and new business ventures. His career has stemmed Stephen L. Demers
of biomedical engineering. from a lifelong interest in health care and business. As an
Rodolfo J. Blandon, M.D., who has been serving as Chief of undergraduate at the University of New Hampshire, he majored in Health
Staff in Weston, has accepted the new role of president of Management and Policy, which enabled him to combine those interests. He then
Cleveland Clinic Florida in Weston. Dr. Blandon has been a earned an MBA at Northeastern University.
member of the Cleveland Clinic Florida staff since 2001. Dr. Gregory Demers’ professional career began in the military, where he served as a lieutenant
Gregory Rosencrance, M.D., currently chairman of the Rosencrance in the U.S. Navy Medical Service Corps, rising over five years to become director of
Cleveland Clinic’s Medicine Institute, will return to Florida to administration at a naval branch medical clinic.
serve as president of Indian River Medical Center (IRMC). Dr. Rosencrance joined the Following his service in the Navy, Demers joined Brigham and Women’s Hospital
staff at Cleveland Clinic Florida in 2014, moving to Cleveland in 2016 as chairman of and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute — both affiliates of Harvard Medical School — in
the Medicine Institute. 1996 as administrative director for the Division of Thoracic Surgery and the Thoracic
Robert L. Lord, Jr. will continue in his role as president of Martin Health System. In Oncology Program, and then went to the University of South Florida College of
November 2015, Lord was named the president of Martin Health after previously having Medicine in 1999 as chief administrator for the Department of Surgery.
served as its chief operating officer, senior vice president responsible for system facility Demers became an entrepreneur in 2005 as founding principal/COO of the Surgical
management, and chief legal officer. He joined Martin Health in 1998. Safety Institute. In 2007, he returned to academic medicine at the University of
Pennsylvania Health Care System as COO of the Department of Surgery. He joined
Lahey in 2009 as vice president and executive director for cardiovascular and muscu-
Greystone Names Donna-Lee loskeletal services.

Fabian Executive Director Health Care District Board
of New Kendall Lakes Health and Welcomes Newest Member

Rehabilitation Center
and Honors Outgoing Finance
Greystone Healthcare Management has named Donna-Lee
Fabian as Executive Director of the new Kendall Lakes Health Committee and Hospital
and Rehabilitation Center, scheduled to open soon. Fabian has Donna-Lee Fabian
been working in the skilled nursing industry for the past 16 Board Members
years, and in other aspects of nursing for 15 years before that. She most recently served
as the Nursing Home Administrator for Greystone’s North Beach Rehabilitation Center, Edward G. Sabin is the newest Commissioner appointed Edward G. Sabin
a 5-Star Facility. Fabian received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and her RN degree to the Board of the Health Care District of Palm Beach
from Foothills Hospital School of Nursing in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is on the County. Sabin is Chief Operating Officer of Southern Implants North America, Inc.
Everest University Advisory Board, is a participating/consulting Administrator at the The Board appointed Commissioner Sabin, who is a Certified Public Accountant,
University of Florida Long Term Management Program and a member of the Florida to serve as Chair of the Finance Committee. Commissioner Sabin serves on the
Health Care Administration (FHCA). Florida Atlantic University Foundation Executive Committee and is its Investment
Committee Chair. He also is Chair of the Village of Tequesta’s Public Safety Pension
Board. Commissioner Sabin received a master of business administration from the
Florida Medical Center Welcomes University of Central Florida and his bachelor of science in accounting from Florida
State University.
New Chief Nursing Officer At the Health Care District Board meeting, Commissioner Lohmann recognized two
outgoing Lakeside Health Advisory Board members, Donia Roberts, Esq., former
Dianne Rosario, BSN, MS, LHRM, joins the staff of Florida Chair, and Angela K. Pope, for their respective eight years of dedicated, volunteer
Medical Center as the hospital’s new Chief Nursing Officer. service and leadership.
Dianne’s experience includes being the Vice President of At the Finance Committee meeting earlier in the day, Commissioner Lohmann rec-
Quality Management at HCA’s Aventura Hospital and ognized R. Michael Smith, outgoing Finance Committee member, for his eight years
Corporate Quality, Risk and Dianne has a BS in Nursing from of volunteer service and commitment.
Interamerican University in Puerto Rico and a Master of
Science in Healthcare Management and Risk Management from Dianne Rosario
Rosalind Franklin University of Health Sciences, Chicago, IL.

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