Medical officers hired for hospitals

FORT MYERS — Lee Health hired four physicians as acute care medical officers at each of its hospitals.

The physicians will work with a nurse vice president of patient care services in a leadership model called a dyad, according to a press release.

The hospital dyads are Dr. Harry Alberti and Wendy Piascik at Cape Coral Hospital; Dr. Jonathan Velez and Holly Muller at Gulf Coast Medical Center; Dr. Eric Appelgren and Cindy Brown at HealthPark Medical Center; and Dr. Scott Wolf and Jennifer Higgins at Lee Memorial Hospital.