Medical center appoints new chief operating officer

LAKEWOOD RANCH — Lakewood Ranch Medical Center has appointed Diego Perilla to chief operating officer.

Most recently, Perilla served as the associate administrator at Wellington Regional Medical Center, according to a press release. There he had administrative responsibility for biomedical engineering; cardio/pulmonary; contracts/negotiations; environmental services; food and nutrition; diagnostic imaging; interventional radiology; cath lab; laboratory; outpatient wound care; and plant operations and construction as well as physician and community relations.