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To be a premier clinically integrated delivery system providing access to exceptional patient- and family centered care, medical education, research and innovation for the benefit of the community we serve.
Memorial Healthcare System is where deeper caring creates smarter healthcare.
Dear Friend of Memorial Healthcare System,
Greetings from all of us at Memorial — our Board, our medical staff and our thousands of Memorial caregivers. For the second consecutive year, our Annual Report (May 1, 2020, through April 30, 2021) is in a different format than you may remember from the years before COVID-19. We’re continuing to face the pandemic’s challenges — and we’re also marking some important milestones in Moving Health Forward for our patients, their families and our community. This report is the result.
By August of 2020, we thought COVID-19 had leveled off, only to experience the resurgence of January 2021 (and then of course the onslaught of the Delta variant later this year). Which means that for 19 months, our Memorial family has been answering the call of the pandemic without letup. Rest assured that their efforts will remain unflagging as long as the pandemic continues to test us.
At the same time, as one of Florida’s largest healthcare systems, Memorial has had to continue laying the groundwork for healthcare of the future. Long after COVID-19 is in the rearview mirror, South Floridians — and people from all over the country — will require the kind of highquality, patient- and family-centered care Memorial is known for. You’ll be pleased to know that we’ve remained focused on making Memorial a destination center for a broad range of services.
Our ability to deliver comprehensive cardiac care is just one example. All the elements of a destination heart care provider — the tools, the technology and the expertise — already exist at Memorial Cardiac and Vascular Institute, which means we can provide medical, interventional and surgical treatment for all cardiac diseases. We have:
Why shouldn’t Memorial be a destination center for providing outstanding healthcare? From our beginnings as a single community hospital in 1953, we’ve grown to become a regional academic medical center. And we know that, pandemic or no pandemic, the coming years promise us even more exciting opportunities to Move Health Forward.
On behalf of all of us at Memorial, thank you for your continued support. You give us energy and confidence to face what we know will be a great future — for ourselves, and for those we’re proud to serve.
Aurelio M. Fernandez III, FACHE
President and Chief Executive Officer
Douglas A. Harrison
Chairman of the Board
*May 1, 2020-April 30, 2021
Douglas A. Harrison
Chairman
Dr. Luis E. Orta
Vice Chair
Elizabeth Justen
Secretary/Treasurer
José Basulto
Commissioner
Brad Friedman
Commissioner
Steven Harvey
Commissioner
Laura Raybin Miller
Commissioner
President and
Chief Executive Officer
Executive Vice President and
Chief Transformation Officer
Executive Vice President and
Chief Operating Officer
Chief Executive Officer
Memorial Hospital West
Senior Vice President and
Chief Nurse Executive
Senior Vice President and
President, Memorial and Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital Foundations
Executive Vice President and
Chief Strategy Officer
Executive Vice President and
Chief Medical Officer
Chief Executive Officer
Memorial Regional Hospital
Senior Vice President and
General Counsel
Chief Physician Executive,
Memorial Physician Group and
Chief, Critical Care Medicine
Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Executive Officer,
Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital
and Pediatric Services
Chief Executive Officer
Memorial Hospital Miramar
Senior Vice President and
Chief Digital Officer
Senior Vice President and
Chief Human Resources Officer
Chief Executive Officer
Memorial Regional Hospital South
Aurelio M. Fernandez III, FACHE
President and Chief Executive Officer
Nina Beauchesne, FACHE
Executive Vice President and
Chief Transformation Officer
Leah A. Carpenter, FACHE
Executive Vice President and
Chief Operating Officer
Vedner Guerrier
Chief Executive Officer,
Memorial Hospital West
Maggie Hansen
Senior Vice President and
Chief Nurse Executive
Kevin R. Janser
Senior Vice President and
President, Memorial and
Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital Foundations
Matthew Muhart
Executive Vice President
and Chief Strategy Officer
Marc L. Napp, MD, MS, FACS
Executive Vice President
and Chief Medical Officer
Peter Powers, FACHE
Chief Executive Officer,
Memorial Regional Hospital
Frank Rainer
Senior Vice President and
General Counsel
Aharon Sareli, MD
Chief Physician Executive,
Memorial Physician Group and
Chief, Critical Care Medicine
David Smith, FACHE
Executive Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer
Caitlin Stella
Chief Executive Officer,
Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital
and Pediatric Services
Joseph Stuczynski
Chief Executive Officer,
Memorial Hospital Miramar
Jeffrey S. Sturman
Senior Vice President
and Chief Digital Officer
Margie Vargas
Senior Vice President and
Chief Human Resources Officer
Douglas A. Zaren, FACHE
Chief Executive Officer,
Memorial Regional Hospital South
Aharon Sareli, MD
Juan Arenas, MD
Brian Cauff, MD
Daniel Chan, MD
Brett Cohen, MD
Michael Cortelli, MD
Christopher DeMassi, MD
Christopher Gannon, MD
Jennifer Goldman, DO
Iftikhar Hanif, MD
Sarah Hart-Unger, MD
Dean Hertzler, MD
Brian Hunis, MD
Michael Jofe, MD
Diana Martinez, MD
Juan Martinez, MD
Holly Neville, MD
Samuel Ostrower, MD
Scott Oxenhandler, MD
Luis E. Raez, MD
James Salerno, MD
Frank Scholl, MD
Jorge Luis Sotelo, MD
Memorial Physician Group is the collective body of all employed physicians at Memorial Healthcare System. At inception in 1999, there were only seven practices and 31 physicians. Today, Memorial Physician Group consists of more than 300 highly skilled, nationally recognized, adult and pediatric specialists who provide leading-edge, patient- and family-centered care.
The growing multi-specialty practice comprises 80 adult and pediatric specialties and subspecialties across Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties.
Over the course of the pandemic, our physicians took the lead to ensure patients continued to receive quality care — creating protocols for testing at C.B. Smith Park and embracing the use of telehealth visits. In some cases, physicians and their clinical teams redeployed to other care areas as needed.
In the last year, Memorial has grown by adding more physician office locations across South Florida and offering new services at existing locations.
Midtown Miami is one of Memorial’s newest physician office locations. It offers adult neurology services including diagnoses, treatments and compassionate care for complex neurological conditions. The other location in Fort Lauderdale is Memorial Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine Center.
Memorial Physician Group’s leadership model has further developed this year. Our subcommittees have continued to champion projects that are aligned with Memorial’s goals and which have resulted in improvements in both quality and operational efficiencies.
Marc L. Napp, MD, MS, FACS, joined Memorial Healthcare System in March 2021. In his role as Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Napp oversees quality and safety programs and provides oversight and leadership for all medical staff and clinical areas.
Prior to joining Memorial, Dr. Napp was deputy chief medical officer at Mount Sinai Health System in New York, where he also served as leader of Mount Sinai’s emergency management program, including its COVID-19 response.
He succeeded Stanley Marks, MD, FACS, who retired in October 2020.
Howard Berlin, MD
Kenneth J. Budowsky, MD
Benjamin Freedman, MD
Marc Greenstein, MD
Fred Keroff, MD
William Pena, MD
Rocky Slonaker, MD
Nigel Spier, MD
David Weiss, MD
Memorial Health Network negotiates value-based agreements with health plans to try and lower the total cost of care for a specific population by deploying strategies to improve efficiency, communication between providers and sites of service, and improve quality. We make sure individuals get the right care, at the right site-of-service, at the right time.
In a virtual celebration featuring multiple celebrities, the Joe DiMaggio American Icon Award was awarded to all 14,000 Memorial caregivers and heroes for their selfless dedication in facing the COVID-19 pandemic.
Special guests included past award recipients — author James Patterson, sportscaster Bob Costas and music legends Emilio and Gloria Estefan — as well as DiMaggio’s granddaughters Kathie DiMaggio Stein and Paula DiMaggio Hamra.
Memorial Healthcare System was selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the 2020 Best Places to Work in Healthcare, a national recognition that identifies outstanding employers in the healthcare field. Memorial ranked highest in Florida and was the only healthcare system in South Florida to receive this recognition in 2020.
Memorial Healthcare System was recognized for its leadership and innovation in quality and performance improvement as a finalist for the American Hospital Association’s Quest for Quality Prize.
The Quest for Quality Prize was first awarded in 2002. The finalists are honored at the annual American Hospital Association Leadership Summit. This year, in addition to Memorial, Yale New Haven Health and Yuma Regional Medical Center were honored.
Memorial Healthcare System has taken a leadership role not only in pandemic response efforts in Florida, but in addressing patient and family needs and other societal factors that influence the community’s health.
Memorial Regional Hospital, Memorial Hospital West, Memorial Hospital Miramar and Memorial Hospital Pembroke all were awarded an A in the Leapfrog Group’s Spring 2021 Hospital Safety Grade, a national distinction recognizing Memorial’s efforts in protecting patients from harm and meeting the highest safety standards in the United States.
Memorial Hospital Miramar was the only South Florida facility recognized as a straight A hospital — and one of only 27 hospitals in the United States to be awarded an A in every grading cycle since 2012.
In addition, in December 2020 Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital was the only South Florida pediatric hospital named as a Top Children’s Hospital nationally by the Leapfrog Group.