HCA Healthcare West Florida Division President Jyric Sims announced that Joe Rudisill is the new chief executive officer (CEO) of HCA Florida Sarasota Doctors Hospital. Rudisill brings more than 17 years of healthcare leadership experience to his new role, having served as the CEO of HCA Florida Englewood Hospital since September 2023. While there, his many successes included the groundbreaking and near completion of the hospital’s $31 million emergency services expansion in North Port. Under his leadership, Englewood Hospital earned the One of America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Coronary Intervention in 2024 and Top 5% in the Nation for Patient Safety honors. Joe returned to Florida from Mission Hospital, an 853-bed hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, where he served as Chief Operating Officer (COO) for close to four years. Prior to that, he was the COO and Ethics & Compliance Officer at HCA Florida Bayonet Point Hospital and later stepped into the Interim CEO role. He began his healthcare career at Tenet Healthcare in North Carolina and also served at Bon Secours St. Mary’s Hospital before joining HCA Healthcare’s Henrico Doctors’ Hospital. Rudisill holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master of Health Administration from Virginia Commonwealth University. Joe and his wife, Liz, have four children and enjoy spending time outdoors, playing sports and cheering on the Tar Heels. Rudisill replaces Robert Meade who is retiring after 41 years with HCA Healthcare and includes serving as the Sarasota Doctors Hospital CEO since 2005. During this time, Meade focused on a culture of excellence in which the hospital achieved numerous accolades including earning a CMS 5-star designation, the Fortune/IBM Watson Healthcare 100 Top Hospitals in the US, 19 Leapfrog “A” Safety ratings, Becker’s Healthcare 100 Places to Work in Healthcare and the recent addition of a graduate medical education program in Internal Medicine, to name a few. Services expansions over the past two decades have included the development of a comprehensive robotics and surgery program, operating room and emergency room expansions, the addition of a cardiac catheterization and mental health program, the opening the HCA Florida Sarasota Doctors North Emergency in Lakewood Ranch and construction of a second emergency in Venice to open in spring 2025.