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Beverly Capasso Named Broward Jesse Gabuat Appointed CNO

Health President/CEO of Plantation General Hospital

Interim Broward Health President/CEO Beverly Capasso HCA East Florida announces the appointment of Jesse
has been named its President/CEO. Gabuat as CNO of Plantation General Hospital (PGH). Jesse
Capasso has been appointed Broward Health’s interim has most recently served as the ACNO at Aventura Hospital
President/CEO after serving on the North Broward Hospital and Medical Center since 2012. Prior to that, Jesse served as
District Board of Commissioners. Capasso previously served as the AVP of Acute Care Services at St. Lucie Medical Center.
CEO at Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami. She has also held Jesse has been with HCA for 25 years and holds an MSN from
senior management positions at Cleveland Clinic Florida in Beverly Capasso Florida Atlantic University. Jesse received his Nurse Executive
Weston and as Chief Nursing Officer at Miami’s North Shore board certification from the American Nurses Credentialing Jesse Gabuat
Medical Center, part of Tenet Healthcare. In addition to her Center.
executive positions, she has years of experience as a registered nurse working in critical
care and emergency departments.
The Mental Health Association
Rosello New CEO at Baptist Hospital of Palm Beach County Hires

Bo Boulenger, Executive VP & Chief Operating Officer for New CEO, Jeremy Morse
Baptist Health South Florida, announced the appointment of
Patricia Rosello, R.N., as the new Chief Executive Officer for The Mental Health Association of Palm Beach County
Baptist Hospital. Roselle has served as CEO for Baptist (MHAPBC) announced that it has hired Jeremy Morse as its
Outpatient Services since 2003. In this role, she has led a divi- new CEO. Jeremy has most recently served as the Director of
sion of more than 1,100 employees and 800 physicians that Institutional Support at Palm Beach Atlantic University and
included Baptist Health’s freestanding diagnostic imaging cen- holds more than 10 years’ experience in philanthropic sector Jeremy Morse
ters, urgent care and express care centers, Care on Demand, fundraising and management. Prior to that he served as VP of
executive health, sleep and endoscopy centers, as well as Patricia Rosello Social Enterprise for The Lord’s Place, where he helped grow the organization’s annual
ambulatory surgery. Under her leadership, BOS has attained budget from $3.2 million to over $8 million in just four years. During this time, he also
some of the highest levels of patient, employee and physician satisfaction in the system founded their Social Enterprise Division which created 25 jobs for formerly homeless
while undergoing unprecedented volume and revenue growth. individuals.

FIU’s Nicole Wertheim College Brown Elected to Serve

of Nursing & Health Sciences as Lee Health Board of Directors

Appoints Dr. Tami Thomas Chairman for 2018
Associate Dean of Research Lee Health is pleased to announce the newly elected officers

of its Board of Directors for 2018. Stephen R. Brown, M.D., was
Tami Thomas, PhD, RN, CPNP, FAANP, FAAN, was appoint- unanimously elected to serve as Board Chairman for 2018. Dr.
ed Associate Dean of Research at Florida International Brown was first elected to the Board in 2008, and serves as the
University (FIU) Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing & Board’s liaison to Golisano Children's Hospital of Southwest Dr. Stephen R. Brown
Health Sciences. She will transition from her former post as Dr. Tami Thomas Florida, the Quality & Safety committee, Lean Transformation
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs to spearhead the college’s (process improvement) and Behavioral Health. He is a retired radiologist. Dr. Brown
research and faculty development initiatives. Dr. Thomas will served as Mayor Sanibel Island (2002-03) and nine years on the Sanibel City Council. He
also serve as Director of the PhD in Nursing program in this new role. is a member of the Sanibel Captiva Kiwanis, and serves on the Boards of Sanibel
Dr. Thomas is an award-winning nurse educator and prolific researcher who is recog- Community Housing Resource and Sanibel Captiva Charitable Foundation of the Islands.
nized nationally and internationally as an expert in health promotion. Her work has been Donna Clarke will continue to serve as Vice Chairman. David F. Collins will continue
credited with improving adolescent health and access to primary care for underserved to serve as Treasurer. Therese Everly will continue to serve as Board Secretary.
populations. In addition to the officers, other Board members include: Sanford Cohen, M.D.; Diane
Dr. Thomas’ move from the College’s Academic Affairs office to the Research office was Champion; Jessica Carter Peer; Chris Hansen; Nancy McGovern, RN, MSM; and
seeded from her time on the nursing faculty at Emory University (2010-2014) and the Stephanie Meyer, BSN, RN.
University of Florida (1998-2005). She was director of the Doctor of Nursing Practice
(DNP) program and Specialty Coordinator for the Pediatric Master of Science in Nursing
(MSN) program at Emory’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. At the University
of Florida, Dr. Thomas was a coordinator of research programs for the College of
Medicine’s Division of Pediatric Nephrology and Addictive Health Behaviors Institute at
the University of Florida.

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