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Volume 12 • Issue 12• $5.00 June 2016
THE REGION’S MONTHLY NEWSPAPER FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS & PHYSICIANS
Healthcare Real Estate, Construction
Jackson Health System’s Miracle
Building Bond Program
Opening Doors to Local SBEs
BY VANESSA ORR
Pauline Grant Breaking into the healthcare construction sector as a Aurelio M. Fernandez
small business enterprise construction (SBE-C)
Broward Health firm can be difficult—to even be considered, firms Aurelio
Names have to have experience, but that experience can only be Fernandez
Promoted to
Pauline Grant as gained by having worked on healthcare projects. CEO of Memorial
Interim CEO Healthcare
Understanding this dilemma, Jackson Health System
BY DANIEL CASCIATO System
has created a mentor/protégé program that provides local
Broward Health named Pauline Grant, BY DANIEL CASCIATO
former CEO of Broward Health small businesses with the opportunity to shadow expert
North, as its interim president and Following a public search that last-
CEO. Grant becomes Broward Health's construction-management firms as they work on six ed several months, Aurelio M.
first female president and CEO. She Fernandez, III, FACHE, chief
replaces Kevin Fusco, who was appointed major service contracts as part of its Miracle Building operating officer of Memorial
acting president and CEO to step in for the Healthcare System for the past four
late Nabil El Sanadi, MD. Bond initiative. Adrian Foster years, was promoted to the position of
president and CEO. It was a move
Since 2003, Grant served as CEO of “The bond initiative was started internally in 2012, applauded by many of the employees
Broward Health North in Deerfield Beach, and members of the community
FL. She joined Broward Health in 1993 as when our different business entities that had capital needs came together and compiled because they wanted the next CEO to
director of primary care services and was come from within.
promoted to VP of ambulatory care servic- a ‘wish list’ of what capital improvements would be needed, three, five, even 10 years
es in 1999. Grant holds a master of science “We all felt that it should be filled by
from the University of the West Indies and into the future,†explained David Clark, associate vice president, Facilities Construction an internal candidate because we want-
an MBA from Nova Southeastern ed to ensure the culture of the organiza-
University. and Design Department, Jackson Health System. “An initiative was put before voters in tion was preserved,†says Fernandez. “I
knew the dynamics of the organi-
Grant acknowledges these are challeng- Continued on page 14 zation, what needed to happen and how
ing times for Broward Health. Most recent- everything fitted into the overall strate-
ly, the state office of inspector general Larkin Community Hospital gy of the organization.â€
opened an investigation and requested Plans to Open Charter Middle
information about its previous contracts. School as Part of Medical Campus Most of all, Fernandez says that he
Moody’s also downgraded the organiza- wanted to continue on the journey that
tion’s bond rating because of a decline in BY DANIEL CASCIATO Memorial had set out for the past ten
operating performance.
Retaining talent has become a top priority for many Continued on page 22
“We have been mindful of what is going South Florida healthcare organizations. This is
on,†says Grant. “But we’re on the way to especially an issue among medical school gradu-
ates, notes Jack Michel, M.D., president and chairman of
Continued on page 21
the board at Larkin Community Hospital in South
Miami. One of the reasons Dr. Michel believes graduates
are leaving the area is because a majority are not origi-
nally from South Florida.
“As we began to explore ways to keep more graduates
from leaving the area, we felt it was important that they
have roots here,†he says. Dr. Jack Michel
As a result, Larkin Community Hospital decided last
fall to explore the viability of starting a new charter school that would cater to mid-
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