December 3 2021 – St. Mary’s Medical Center & the Palm Beach Children’s Hospital appoint Jessica Miller as their new Chief Nursing Officer (CNO). In this role, Miller will be responsible for overseeing and coordinating the daily operations of St. Mary’s Medical Center and the Palm Beach Children’s Hospital’s nursing departments. She will ensure that the hospitals’ tradition of delivering high quality patient care is consistently maintained. Miller brings extensive healthcare leadership experience and a demonstrated focus on patient-centered care, and performance improvement.
“This is homecoming for Jessica, as she is returning to Tenet Healthcare where she has spent much of her career, and she was actually born at St. Mary’s Medical Center, giving her strong family ties to this community,” said Cynthia McCauley, chief executive officer of St. Mary’s Medical Center and the Palm Beach Children’s Hospital. “I am very excited about her vision for the nursing department, and I am confident that she will lead our clinical team to long term success.”
Prior to this appointment, Miller served as the CNO for former sister facilities, Florida Medical Center and North Shore Medical Center. She was also the lead CNO for the rest of Steward Healthcare’s Miami hospitals, which they recently acquired from Tenet Healthcare. She also served as the CNO for sister facility, Coral Gables Hospital. During her 13 years of service to Coral Gables Hospital, Miller led the quality, risk management, infection control and wound care departments. She was also responsible for overseeing numerous surveys from government and regulatory agencies, and played a key role in four of the hospital’s Top Performer in Key Quality Metrics recognitions from The Joint Commission. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and her Master of Business Administration from Florida International University. Miller is bilingual in English and Spanish.
Miller is replacing Ruth Schwarzkopf, who is retiring at the end of the year after close to 20 years in a nursing leadership role with Tenet Healthcare.
About St. Mary’s Medical Center
St. Mary’s Medical Center is a 460-bed acute care hospital located at 901 45th Street in West Palm Beach. The hospital has been serving the medical and health care needs of the greater West Palm Beach area for more than 80 years.
St. Mary’s Medical Center offers a broad array of adult and pediatric services, including: a Level 1 Trauma Center, a state-designated Pediatric Trauma Referral Center, Comprehensive Stroke Center and a state-designated Brain and Spinal Cord Acute Injury Center. Additional services include the Neuroscience Center, High-Risk Obstetrical Unit with a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), the Institute for Advanced Orthopedics, the Rehabilitation Institute, the Memory Disorder Center, Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine Center, Schwartz Dialysis Center and the Institute for Mental Health.
Pediatric services are provided at the Palm Beach Children’s Hospital at St. Mary’s Medical Center, which is the only dedicated children’s hospital between Ft. Lauderdale and Orlando. Along with 24/7 dedicated pediatric emergency and trauma care, Palm Beach Children’s Hospital’s medical staff consists of 196 pediatricians in 36 subspecialties. These include limb reconstruction and lengthening at the Paley Orthopedic and Spine Institute, pediatric oncology program, which includes membership in the Children’s Oncology Group – a clinical trials group supported by the National Cancer Institute, and pediatric orthopedics. In addition, in-house pediatric intensivists work with area pediatricians to care for children while staying at Palm Beach Children’s Hospital.
St. Mary’s Medical Center is fully accredited by the Joint Commission, the nation’s oldest and largest hospital accreditation agency, and is a member of the Children’s Hospital Association. The hospital has won many prestigious awards, including the Tenet Circle of Excellence award. To learn more about St. Mary’s Medical Center and Palm Beach Children’s Hospital, visit www.stmarysmc.com, www.palmbeachchildrens.com or call 561-844-6300.
