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Broward Health Expands
Around the Region… Around
GME Program

VITAS® Healthcare Promotes Broward Health has
expanded its Graduate
Chief Human Resources Officer Medical Education (GME) to
provide additional training
Diane Psaras to Executive programs for physicians and
further enhance care for the
Vice President community. In late June,
Broward Health welcomed
about 60 residents represent-
Diane Psaras, chief human resources (HR) officer for ing 10 specialties into its
VITAS Healthcare since October 2018, has been promoted GME program.
to executive vice president at the nation’s leading provider “Over the next five years,
of end-of-life care. Diane Psaras we are developing multiple Dr. Patricia Rowe-King Dr. Keith Foster
She brings more than 25 years of HR management expe- physician training programs
rience to the role and reports to President and Chief Executive Officer Nick Westfall. that will allow our residents
During her tenure, Psaras has overseen numerous initiatives focused on continuous to rotate to all four hospitals
improvement and excellence in such areas as talent acquisition and retention, educa- and through Salah Foun -
tion and training, business partnerships, employee relations, benefits, compensation, dation Children’s Hospital,”
payroll and HR information systems. said Patricia Rowe-King,
Prior to VITAS, Psaras was chief HR officer for Healogics, Inc., senior vice president M.D., a pediatrician and
of HR at Darden Restaurants and global vice president of HR resources at Avery director of Broward Health’s
Dennison. She earned a master’s degree in business administration from Rollins residency program.
College in Orlando, FL, and a bachelor’s degree in business administration Broward Health Medical
Youngstown State University in Youngstown, OH. Center was the first statutory
She is a member of the HR Policy Association, Society for Human Resource teaching hospital in Broward
Management, Jacksonville Executive Women’s Leadership Forum, and serves as County. Fast forward almost
Executive Board Member for the Big Brothers Big Sisters organization. 30 years to today and
Health’s Graduate Medical Education
Broward Health’s accredited GME pro- general surgery residency allows us to
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Adds gram includes rotations at Broward help fill the physician shortage and the
Health North, Broward Health Imperial critical need that we have for doctors in
Former Hospital CEO & GC Jerry Point, Broward Health Coral Springs and the state and locally,” said Keith Foster,
Salah Foundation Children’s Hospital. M.D., Broward Health North’s chief med-
Fedele to Healthcare Section The additional primary training pro- ical officer. “We are teaching a new gen-

grams will be at Broward Health North eration of physicians how to provide
for emergency medicine and internal
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney welcomes Jerry Fedele as medicine and Broward Health Imperial world-class healthcare.”
of counsel to its Healthcare section. Fedele, a healthcare Point, where a psychiatry program will “Our residents are paired with highly
executive and lawyer who served as president and CEO of be developed. trained physicians who then instruct
Boca Raton Regional Hospital from 2008 to 2019, will “As a safety net healthcare system, our and mentor them,” said Rowe-King.
work with Buchananís healthcare and healthcare-related charter is to take care of the communi- “The resident physicians work alongside
clients to help bridge the gap between their legal and Jerry Fedele ty,” said Rowe-King. “In order to care for our faculty members and participate in
operational needs. our community appropriately, we need workshops and other professional devel-
Fedele began his career as a corporate lawyer and also served as counsel for Bayer to train physicians to not only deliver opment.”
Corporation at its Pittsburgh-based U.S. headquarters. He subsequently became gen- evidence-based comprehensive care, but Since joining the system on July 1, the
eral counsel for the West Penn Allegheny Health System (WPAHS). Fedele became to also help patients have increased residents have received extensive experi-
WPAHSís CEO in 2003 and served until 2007. In 2008, he took charge of the Boca access to specialty care.” ence.
Raton Regional Hospital and transformed and expanded its services, introduced grad- Broward Health’s bolstered GME pro- “My first week was amazing,” said
uate medical education, and grew community confidence and revenue from $350 mil- gram is part of preparations being made Eric Tong, M.D., a first-year postgradu-
lion to $550 million as he led the transformation of the hospital to an academic ter- by system leaders for the physician ate resident at Broward Health North.
tiary regional referral medical center. deficit that is projected to happen in “Not only do I get to work with such
Fedele holds the positions of Executive in Residence and faculty member at Lynn about 10 to 15 years. dedicated and kind co-workers, but I
University and serves on the Board of Visitors at the University of Pittsburgh Joseph “As we transition to an academic hos- also get to learn with the best surgeons.
M. Katz Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration. He pital at Broward Health North, Broward It has been a dream to watch patients'
earned a bachelorís in mathematics and a masterís in business administration from lives improve after their surgeries.”
the University of Pittsburgh, and a juris doctor from Duquesne University, where he
was class valedictorian.
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