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Around the Region

University Hospital and Medical Donna Lewis Named Hospital

Center Appoints Mitchell Fingerhut, Compliance and Privacy Officer at
Director of Pharmacy St. Mary’s Medical Center

University Hospital and Medical Center announced that Donna Lewis, R.N., has been named Hospital Compliance
Mitchell Fingerhut has been named Director of Pharmacy. and Privacy Officer for St. Mary’s Medical Center in West
Fingerhut received his Doctor of Pharmacy from Nova Palm Beach.
Southeastern University in 1998. He joins University Hospital Lewis comes to St. Mary’s with 12 years of healthcare expe-
and Medical Center from Westside Regional Medical Center. rience, most recently as Hospital Compliance Officer at West
Mitchell Fingerhut Boca Medical Center. She began her healthcare career in nurs- Donna Lewis
Aventura Hospital and ing for the North Broward Hospital district, serving a portion
of that time as a Pediatric Intensive Care nurse.
Medical Center
Welcomes New Broward Health NBMC Manager

Board Members Focuses on Patient Safety and
Performance Improvement
Aventura Hospital and Medical
Center’s Chairman of the Board of Each day that Beverly Beyerlein, R.N., walks through the
Trustees, Norman Leopold and Bob Diamond Gerry Goodman doors at North Broward Medical Center, she’s on a mission.
Heather Rohan, CEO announced the Her job is to foster improvements for NBMC and to guarantee
appointment of two new members to the Board of Trustees, City of Aventura the safety of all its patients.
Commissioner Bob Diamond and Sunny Isles Beach Commissioner Gerry Goodman. Beyerlein is the patient safety officer and regional manager
Commissioner Bob Diamond was elected to Commissioner of the City of Aventura in of quality management and epidemiology at NBMC. Beverly Beyerlein
2003 and re-elected in 2007. Beyerlein has more than 13 years experience in healthcare
Commissioner Gerry Goodman has served as commissioner of Sunny Isles Beach for and has been a member of the North Broward Medical Center
the past five years. He is currently the commission liaison for the Citizens Traffic Safety team for more than five years.
and Americans with Disabilities Committee. Commissioner Goodman is also the city’s
representative to the Miami-Dade Fire Board meetings.
New Appointment at Broward
Wellington Regional Announces Health North Broward
New Director of Medical Center

Critical Care Services Brian McAuley, a 12-year employee of the North Broward
Hospital District, has been appointed manager of process
Wellington Regional Medical Center is pleased to announce management and customer service at North Broward
that Darlene Noegel, R.N., has been appointed the new Medical Center.
Director of Critical Care and Telemetry at the hospital. McAuley’s career with the NBHD began in April 1994 when Brian McAuley
Holding a Master of Science Degree in Nursing from Barry he started working as a patient representative in the emer-
University, Noegel most recently served as Director of gency department at Broward General Medical Center. He later held other positions
Telemetry at St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach and Darlene Noegel including an outpatient case manager, a publications specialist and more recently the
before that, as Director of Nursing Support Services at Good manager of publications and internal communications for the District.
Samaritan Medical Center, also in West Palm Beach.
Hialeah Hospital Names
GEO Care Management Changes
New Director of Maternal

GEO Care announces the following changes at their corporate offices and facilities. and Child Services
Valerie Devereaux, Vice President of Operations for South Florida Evaluation &
Treatment Center (SFETC), Miami, SFETC–ANNEX, Miami, Treasure Coast Forensic
Treatment Center, Indiantown, FL and Fort Bayard Medical Center, NM. Lourdes Camps, chief nursing officer at Hialeah Hospital,
George Gintoli, Vice President of Operations for South Florida State Hospital, recently announced the appointment of Sherrill Sorensen as
Pembroke Pines and Florida Civil Commitment Center, Arcadia, FL. director of maternal-child services.
Frank Schwartz, Assistant Administrator at South Florida Evaluation & Treatment Prior to joining Hialeah Hospital, Sorensen served as direc-
Center will transfer to South Florida State Hospital as the Assistant Administrator. tor of nursing for Keiser Career College. Previously, she
Dan Lacey, Director of Administration at South Florida State Hospital will transfer to worked as a labor and delivery nurse for Memorial Hospital Sherrill Sorensen
the ANNEX facility as the Assistant Administrator. West and Plantation General Hospital.
Daisy Baez, Assistant Administrator at ANNEX will transfer to the SFETC facility in
Downtown Miami as Assistant Administrator and will assist in the transition to the new Broward Health North Broward
SFETC facility in Homestead in April of 2008.
Medical Center Focuses on Safety
Broad and Cassel Welcomes
Joseph Vota has been appointed regional manager and safe-
New Health Law Attorney ty officer at Broward Health North Broward Medical Center
(NBMC). Vota has been an employee with Broward Health for
The statewide law firm Broad and Cassel is pleased to 10 years.
announce the addition of Associate Joanne Charles, who has Prior to joining North Broward Medical Center, Vota worked
joined the Firm’s Fort Lauderdale office and the Health Law in a similar position at Broward General Medical Center. He
Practice Group. developed project specifications and implemented safe prac-
A former health writer, editor and researcher, Charles has tices for construction, renovations and equipment installations Joseph Vota
experience in the development of healthcare fundraising cam- for the 716-bed facility. Vota earned a bachelor of science in
paigns, as well as drafting physician-written publications and physics and mathematics from Manhattan College and a master’s degree in communica-
materials. During her tenure with a medical center, she gained Joanne Charles tion in education from New York University.
valuable insight working with physicians to promote hospital
services, and assisted in the development and drafting of patient guides, fundraising mar-
keting and media-related materials.

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