West Boca Medical Center announced the appointment of Linda Ballou as its new director of plant operations. Ballou’s career directing plant operations for hospital systems across south Florida spans 11 years. Ballou is also the only female director of plant operations in the Tenet Florida network of ten hospitals throughout Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties.Ballou comes to West Boca Medical Center with a wide range of experience in engineering, plant operations, emergency planning, and maintenance for hospital systems. Over the course of her career, Ballou has directed plant operations for several hospitals around south Florida, including Delray Medical Center, another hospital in the Tenet Florida network, from 2001 to 2004.
Between 1991 and 2001, Ballou was promoted several times in Delray Medical Center’s Plant Operations Department from staff assistant, to operations manager, to assistant director, and then campus director between.
