Florida Hospital’s Heartland Division will welcome a new leader on Friday, October 19. Tim Cook, currently chief executive officer for Adventist La Grange Memorial Hospital, has accepted the position of president and CEO for the Heartland Division.
Cook will assume leadership responsibility for the three hospitals in the Division: Florida Hospital Heartland Medical Center, Florida Hospital Lake Placid, and Florida Hospital Wauchula. He brings extensive experience in operations from Adventist Midwest Health, where he has served in many roles including vice president of development, regional vice president of human resources, risk management, and customer service excellence, and chief operating officer.
“Tim will be deeply missed by his colleagues and staff here in the Midwest, as well as the members of the community he serves,” says David Crane, President/CEO for Adventist Midwest Health.
Cook’s most significant accomplishments include integrating a combined inter-hospital structure for outpatient rehab, repositioning and expanding the pediatric rehab program, initiating the Mobile PET scan program, overseeing the construction of a new patient care center at La Grange, and helping cultivate a renewed commitment to service excellence in his hospital.
“Tim has been a great asset to Adventist Midwest Health for the past 13 years, and we are looking forward to utilizing his dynamic abilities here in our Heartland Division,” says Michael Schultz, President/CEO of Adventist Health System’s Florida Division. “In addition to a proven business record of continually improving both Gallup patient satisfaction and employee engagement scores, he infuses a unique passion and energy for our mission of extending Christ’s healing ministry.”
Cook, his wife Vivian, and their three children are looking forward to the opportunities this transition will bring.
“Our family has been richly blessed these past 13 years in the Chicago suburbs, and we will miss the wonderful people and work there,” says Cook. “But God has opened up the Heartland opportunity and we are embracing it with open hearts and open arms. I am ever conscious these are God's hospitals and take that very seriously as we seek to serve others through His healing ministry.”