Hospital system promotes from within

FORT MYERS — Lee Health promoted Lisa Sgarlata to chief patient care officer, Dr. K. Alex Daneshmand to chief patient safety officer and Alex Greenwood to vice president of Lee Health - Coconut Point.

Sgarlata will assume the role of chief patient care officer on June 1 when Donna Giannuzzi retires. Sgarlata has more than 25 years of experience in health care, according to a press release. Most recently, she was associate chief patient care officer of Lee Health and chief administrative officer for Lee Memorial Hospital.

Dr. Daneshmand will also start in his new position June 1. He is now system medical director of pediatric clinical and quality services at Golisano Children's Hospital of Southwest Florida, which is part of Lee Health.