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First Choice Healthcare Solutions Announces Appointment of Timothy Skeldon as Chief Financial Officer
First Choice Healthcare Solutions Announces Appointment of Timothy Skeldon as Chief Financial Officer.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n First Choice Healthcare Solutions Announces Appointment of Timothy Skeldon as Chief Financial Officer\n \n \nFirst Choice Healthcare Solutions Announces Appointment of Timothy Skeldon as Chief Financial Officer\n \n MELBOURNE, FL--(Marketwired - Jul 6, 2016) - First Choice Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (OTCQB: FCHS) (\"FCHS,\" \"First Choice\" or the \"Company\"), one of the nation's only non-physician-owned, publicly traded healthcare services companies focused on the delivery of total musculoskeletal solutions with an emphasis on Orthopaedics, including spine care and treatment, today announced the appointment of Timothy K. Skeldon, CPA as Chief Financial Officer, effective July 11, 2016. Skeldon, who is charged with overseeing all financial affairs for the Company, will succeed Donald Bittar. Bittar has elected to retire from the CFO position, but will provide corporate advisory support on mergers and acquisitions and other strategic business development opportunities and remain as a member of the Board of Directors.\n For nearly two decades, Skeldon was Chief Financial Officer of Parrish Medical Center, an award-winning 210-bed medical center that has served North Brevard County, Florida for more than a half century. Guided by his financial leadership and hands-on management of financial planning and forecasting, information technology, capital development, strategic business and cultural development, revenue cycle, supply chain and performance improvements, Parrish earned the J.D. Power and Associates Distinguished Hospital Program Award for An Outstanding Inpatient Experience; and was named a Modern Healthcare magazine Top 100 Place to Work in Healthcare and the winner of the publication's coveted Spirit of Excellence Award. Parrish was also voted America's #1 Healing Hospital three years in a row by the Baptist Healing Trust. \n Prior to joining Parrish in 1999, Skeldon served as Vice President and CFO of Central Florida Regional Hospital, a full service, level II trauma center. Other previous executive posts have included Controller of Lucerne Medical Center, Controller and Director of Financial Planning of Parrish and Director of Corporate Accounting for Fawcett Memorial Hospital in Port Charlotte, Florida. He began his career working as a Senior Audit Accountant for Ernst & Young afte...