The Health Care District of Palm Beach County welcomes Geoffrey Washburn as Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, Daniel Scott as Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Roger Chen as Associate Vice President Performance Excellence and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Project Manager and Alicia Ottmann as Associate Vice President and Executive Director of Federally Qualified Health Center and Pharmacy Services.
A career human resources professional, Washburn has more than 30 years of multi-faceted human resources experience in health care, including more than 20 years in senior leadership. Washburn most recently served as Chief Human Resources Officer for Palomar Health. Prior to Palomar, Washburn was Vice President, Human Resources at Los Robles Hospital and Medical Center and also held executive-level human resources roles at several hospital and health care systems in Florida and Michigan.
Scott has more than 30 years of information technology (IT) experience with half of that dedicated to IT health care. He most recently served as Chief Information Officer for Good Samaritan Hospital. Previously, Scott held several IT leadership roles at Ascension Health.
Chen has more than 25 years of corporate and health care Six Sigma and Lean leadership experience developing organizational systems and high-performing teams. Chen most recently presided over his own Lean training consultancy firm. Previously, he served as the Executive Director of Transformation at a private cardiology group in Florida and at a statewide health system in the Midwest. Before that, Chen served as Vice President of Organization Transformation at Lee Memorial Health Systems and was the Corporate Director of Performance Excellence at Martin Memorial Health Systems.
Ottmann brings a decade of community health care experience as a practicing physician assistant as well as a leader of clinical operations and integrated care models. She most recently served as Director of Operations for Neighborhood Outreach Access to Health (NOAH) in Scottsdale, AZ. Ottmann originally joined NOAH as a certified physician assistant in family medicine, treating patients at the community health centers and serving as a clinical preceptor. Previously, she served as Director of Practice Transformation at Innovation Care Partners.