{"id":374742,"date":"2026-08-18T15:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374742\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T15:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:42:10","slug":"memorial-hospitals-see-major-ceo-and-coo-changes-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374742\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial hospitals see major CEO and COO changes this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787067730_112_tfl-l-memorial-007.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Memorial Regional Hospital\" alt=\"Memorial Regional Hospital\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Memorial Regional Hospital<\/p>\n<p>            Joe Cavaretta\/South Florida Sun Sentinel<\/p>\n<p>Last week was a tumultuous one at Memorial Healthcare System, ending with numerous departures of key executives and leadership changes.<\/p>\n<p>After the sudden departure on Aug. 11 of Caitlin Stella as CEO of Joe DiMaggio Children\u2019s Hospital in Hollywood, the chief medical officer, Dr. Ronald Ford, resigned Aug. 13, a hospital spokeswoman said. The children\u2019s hospital is part of Memorial Healthcare System.<\/p>\n<p>Shane Strum, the health system\u2019s interim CEO, told the South Florida Sun Sentinel that Stella\u2019s employment was severed after more than eight years with Joe DiMaggio Children\u2019s Hospital as part of a reorganization.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2026\/08\/14\/major-leadership-changes-departures-at-memorial-healthcare-system\/\">Read the full story at Sun-Sentinel.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published August 17, 2026 at 9:35 AM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Memorial Regional Hospital Joe Cavaretta\/South Florida Sun Sentinel Last week was a tumultuous one at Memorial Healthcare System,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-374742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374742","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=374742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}