Hospital board increases regional heft

Tampa General Hospital President and CEO Jim Burkhart was elected chairman of the Florida Hospital Association board.

The board's vice chairman and chairman-elect is also an area executive: John Kolosky, COO at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center. Burkhart succeeds Mark Faulkner, president and CEO of Baptist Health Care Pensacola, according to a statement.

“It is a privilege to chair the association on behalf of more than 200 Florida hospitals and health systems,” Burkhart says in the release. “In the year ahead, we will continue to focus on clinical performance improvement and policies intended to foster better care, better health and lower costs.”