The Florida Hospital Association (FHA) has moved its leadership forward by naming its Board of Trustees’ members for the next year.
Randy Haffner, Group President and CEO of AdventHealth Florida and Clinical, was appointed Chair of the Board. He acknowledged that FHA has a heavy agenda of work ahead in the 2025-2026 operational year.
“I’m grateful for the opportunity to work with FHA on its defining goal: advancing policies and investments that expand access to innovative, patient-centered care for Florida residents and visitors,” Haffner said.
“In this role as FHA’s Board Chair, I look forward to working alongside hospital leaders and federal and state policymakers in the coming year to strengthen the Sunshine State’s health care delivery system.”
Some 260 members of the FHA from hospitals and health care systems around the state cast votes in the election of the Board. The FHA Board is the governing body of the organization, which is one of the top networking and advocacy groups of the medical field in the state founded in 1927.
It’s composed of health care executives from various hospital members and the Board provides strategic leadership and oversight of the group that works to address needs not only of medical professionals, but residents as well.
The Executive Officers of the Board include:
— Chair-elect and Vice Chair Danielle Drummond, President and CEO of Lakeland Regional Health.
— Treasure Matthew A. Love, President and CEO of Nicklaus Children’s Health System.
— Secretary Conor P. Delaney, Executive Vice President of Cleveland Clinic and President of Florida Market, and he was also named Region 7 Trustee.
— Immediate Past Chair Larry Angonucci, President and CEO of Lee Health System.
The Trustees of the FHA include:
— Region 1, Mark Faulkner, President and CEO of Baptist Health Care.
— Region 2, Michael A. Mayo, President and CEO of Baptist Health.
— Region 3, Stephanie D. Conners, President and CEO of BayCare Health System.
— Region 4, Kelly Nierstedt, President of Orlando Health’s Orlando Regional Medical Center.
— Region 5, Paul Hiltz, President and CEO of NCH Healthcare System.
— Region 6, Amit Rastogi, President and CEO of Jupiter Medical Center.
— Region 8, Dipen J. Parekha, CEO of UHealth-University of Miami.
— Children’s Hospital Trustee, Martha McGill, President of the Central Florida Region of Nemours Children’s Health.
— Rural Hospital Trustee, Brooke G. Donaldson, CEO of Jackson Hospital.
— At-large Trustee, Don King, Senior Vice President of Ascension and CEO and President of Ascension Florida.
— At-large Trustee, Carlos A. Migoya, President and CEO of Jackson Health System.
— At-large Trustee, Glenn Waters, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Baptist Health South Florida.