Lincoln Mendez
CEO, Boca Raton Regional Hospital
As the North Region Executive, Baptist Health, and CEO for Boca Raton Regional Hospital, the second-largest hospital in the Baptist Health family, Lincoln Mendez’s story begins humbly as a medical technologist in a Miami hospital lab. Thanks to his decades of experience at various levels within health care, he has a deep understanding of the ins and outs of running an institution as respected as Boca Raton Regional Hospital.
Since he began his tenure at Boca Regional in July 2019, it has undergone significant growth thanks to the hospital foundation’s Keeping the Promise campaign, which has raised more than $281 million and counting.
“Without the foundation support, you would not be seeing all of the growth at the hospital at this time,” Mendez says. “I’ve never been associated with a hospital that has so much philanthropy and community support as Boca Regional.”
In the works is a proton therapy treatment facility at the Eugene M. and Christine E. Lynn Cancer Institute, which will enhance the hospital’s radiation treatment capabilities. The Christine E. Lynn Women’s Health & Wellness Institute is adding a second MammoVan to make preventive procedures more easily accessible to the community, and the Orthopedic Institute’s growth allows for more orthopedic surgeons as well as care for Palm Beach County School athletes. Finally, there’s the construction of the Gloria Drummond Patient Tower, an eight-story building that will add much-needed patient beds as the population of Boca Raton continues to grow.
“We’re known as the Miracle on Meadows Road,” Mendez says. “We’re going to continue that legacy.”
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