HIALEAH, FL -- Palmetto General Hospital, a 360-bed acute-care hospital, announced its new Governing Board Members for 2009.
The Governing Board Members are responsible and accountable for the performance of the hospital, its long term strategy and vision. The new members are:
- Frederick Lippman, R. Ph., Ed.D., Chairman - Chancellor, Nova Southeastern University
- Jose Gomez, M.D., Vice Chairman -Psychiatry
- Frederick Lancet, M.D., Secretary - Pathology
- Raul Alonso, MD - Cardiovascular Disease
- Rev. Monsignor Franklyn Casale - President, St. Thomas University
- Yioset De La Cruz - Mayor, City of Hialeah Gardens
- Orlando Garcia, D.O. - Internal Medicine
- Vincent Omachonu, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering, University of Miami
- Frank Recio - SabiaMed
- Karen Robinson - Principal, Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High School
- Hugo Salinas, M.D. - Colon/Rectal Surgery
- Albert Tano, M.D. - Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
- Ana Mederos - Chief Executive Officer, Palmetto General Hospital
- Jose Font, M.D. - Chief of Staff
About Palmetto General Hospital
Palmetto General Hospital, founded in 1971, part of Tenet’s Miami-Dade/Broward Health Network, is a 360-bed acute-care hospital located at 2001 West 68th Street in Hialeah, Florida.
The hospital has served the medical and health care needs of Northwest Miami-Dade and Southwest Broward counties for more than 30 years.
Palmetto General Hospital offers a broad range of services, including adult and pediatric emergency rooms, maternity, mental health, cancer center, hyperbaric, wound care, sleep disorders center, a cardiac program that includes both medical and surgical services and a bariatric program that has been designated a Center of Excellence by the American Society for Bariatric Surgery and accredited as a Level 1b facility by The Bariatric Surgery Center Network (BSCN) Accreditation Program of the American College of Surgeons (ACS).
Palmetto General Hospital is fully accredited by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the nation’s oldest and largest hospital accreditation agency. 2008 American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Coronary Artery Disease (GWTG-CAD) Silver Performance Achievement Award.
The award recognizes Palmetto General Hospital’s commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of cardiac care that effectively improves treatment of patients hospitalized with coronary artery disease.
The hospital has earned a five-star rating for clinical excellence and is ranked among the top five percent of hospitals in the nation for maternity care (six years in a row) by HealthGrades, a health care quality ratings company, and is one of only 40 hospitals nationwide to earn Thomson 100 Top Hospitals® designation six times.