Dr. Will Jackson, president and CEO of Erlanger Health System, is one of four finalists in the CEO search for one of South Florida’s largest public hospitals.
In March, Memorial Healthcare System – a $2.3 billion health care network situated between Fort Lauderdale and Miami – interviewed a pool of candidates to replace outgoing CEO Aurelio Fernandez, who will retire at the end of April, according to a Wednesday announcement on the health system’s website.
A March 10 article from the Miami Herald states that Memorial Healthcare’s board retained a health care recruiting firm to start searching for potential CEO replacements in October 2021, and 10 candidates were scheduled for the first round of interviews March 16 and 17.
According to Wednesday’s announcement, the three candidates that remain in addition to Jackson are: Jonathan W. Curtright, CEO, University of Missouri Health Care; Edward Jimenez, CEO, University of Florida Health; and K. Scott Wester, president and CEO, Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center.
“The board will be inviting four of these candidates for an in-person interview in the coming weeks, and these interview notices will be publicly posted on mhs.net,” the announcement states, adding that the board will select a new CEO following the in-person interviews.