{"id":300240,"date":"2026-06-08T18:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300240\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T18:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:28:09","slug":"lee-health-to-announce-important-organizational-update-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300240\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Health to announce important organizational update | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">LEE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/search\/?l=25&amp;s=start_time&amp;sd=desc&amp;f=html&amp;t=article%2Cvideo%2Cyoutube%2Ccollection&amp;app=editorial&amp;nsa=eedition&amp;q=+Lee+Health+\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lee Health<\/a> officials are set to hold a news conference to announce an important organizational leadership update.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The news conference is expected to begin at 3 p.m. on Monday at Medical Plaza One, 9800 S. HealthPark Drive in Fort Myers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/lee\/lee-health-president-will-not-renew-his-employment-contract-which-will-end-in-2026\/article_b5d326a1-69f6-42aa-8547-9c51aa361ace.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">In early December, Dr. Larry Antonucci,<\/a> president and CEO of Lee Health, announced he will not renew his contract when it ends next year. Following his announcement, Antonucci stated that Lee Health will conduct a national search for his successor in 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It remains unclear if Antonucci\u2019s successor will be announced during Monday\u2019s conference; however, he will continue to lead Lee Health until the contract concludes on September 30, 2026.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">WINK News anchor Gracie Fusco will be in attendance, providing updates whenever they become available.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Karsen is a Digital Specialist and has been with WINK News\u00a0since May 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Lee Health officials are set to hold a news conference to announce an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325,115],"class_list":["post-300240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}