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Earlier this year, Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center appointed Dianne Goldenberg as the hospital’s new Chief Executive Officer.
As a healthcare executive for over 35 years, Goldenberg has been in a CEO role for more than a decade. Previously, she was CEO of a hospital in Miami-Dade County with a Level II trauma center and she was also the CEO of one of the former Tenet hospitals in Broward County. Prior to transitioning in an operations role, Goldenberg served as a chief nursing officer.
“Like my mom, I was also a nurse,” she says. “It’s a helping profession and since I have always wanted to help others and take care of people, that’s how I got into nursing.”
Goldenberg quickly worked her way up the ranks on the nursing side. She became a department director and eventually became a chief nursing officer. Along the way, she also went back to school to pursue a Master’s Degree in Nursing from Barry University. When she moved over to operations, she went back to school again and earned an MBA from Nova Southeastern University.
“I loved being a nurse but I knew I would have an opportunity to have a greater impact on a larger number of people as I moved up through the ranks,” she says. “That’s what motivates me and most rewarding to me. It’s still about taking care of people.”
In fact, Goldenberg wants to encourage young people to consider a healthcare career because it’s rewarding and because of your ability to help others in need.
“I think it’s a calling, and I don’t think that there’s any greater profession than being in healthcare,” she says.
Accepting the position of CEO at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center was an easy decision for Goldenberg.
“First, Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center is a great hospital and has a great reputation,” she says. “It definitely is good to come to a place with a lot of excitement around it. Another thing that drew me to the position is to be able to live and work in a community that I’m close to. I live about 15 minutes from the hospital. Palm Beach Gardens is a growing community, and so there’s a lot of growth potential. We can provide great healthcare to our great community and expand some services.”
The quality of care provided by the physicians and clinical team at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center has impressed Goldenberg the most so far.
“Their work is amazing,” she says. “In addition, the community has impressed me. Their involvement and the interest from the community helps make Palm Beach Gardens even better every day. Plus the technology that the hospital has is some of the best I’ve ever seen.”
As an example, Goldenberg points out that Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center became the first hospital in northern Palm Beach County to offer the new 256-Slice CT Scanner as a diagnostic imaging option.
“This is a piece of technology that has the potential to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of patients, improve the comfort of patients during the test, and it can be a game changer,” she says. “Any time we do that, it just provides an opportunity to provide better healthcare.”
She adds that anytime they bring in a new piece of equipment or every time they recruit or have a physician offer services, whether it’s in cardiovascular services, orthopedics, general surgery, it gives the potential to save lives.
“Another thing that we did that was very beneficial was creating a senior emergency department,” she notes. “We have our clinicians with their special training to care for seniors. That’s been very important.”
Looking ahead, Goldenberg’s vision for the organization is simple. She wants to continue to provide great care to the community while promoting our great clinicians and technology to the community and keep growing our services so no one ever has to travel outside of Palm Beach Gardens to get healthcare.
“We want to continue to be a great community partner,” she says. “We support a lot of community organizations. We are involved in the community and part of our mission as a hospital is to not only take care of patients in our community but provide them with healthcare education and prevention. I think that Palm Beach Gardens has been very devoted to the community in that aspect. That’s something that we will continue to do.”
