Lincoln Mendez has been appointed to the newly created role of North Region Executive and CEO of Boca Raton Regional Hospital. His expanded responsibilities include driving the continued growth across the Palm Beach County market, with a strategic focus on expanding the orthopedics, cardiac and vascular, cancer and neuroscience service lines to provide greater access to these services in the region. He will also oversee the physician development strategy and the continued integration and systemization of Bethesda Hospital East and West and Boca Raton Regional Hospital.

Lincoln has served as Boca Regional’s CEO since 2019, when the hospital became part of Baptist Health. Prior to leading Boca Regional, Lincoln was CEO at South Miami Hospital for 9 years and CEO at Doctors Hospital for 14 years. He is actively involved in the Palm Beach County community, currently serving on the Board of the Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce, the South Florida Hospital and Healthcare Association, the Boca Raton Innovation Campus and the Board of the FAU Schmidt College of Medicine Medical School Consortium.