Jerry Fedele

Please help me in my support of the George Snow Scholarship Fund, a Boca Raton based 501(c)(3) charitable organization providing college scholarships for young adults who otherwise would not be able to attend college. I have witnessed the personal and community benefits of higher education and it’s ability to transform lives for deserving young adults.

1. Clicking on the DONATE button and making a tax deductible contribution to the George Snow Scholarship Fund and indicating that the contribution is in support of my participation in the Ballroom Battle.

2. Sending a tax deductible contribution to the George Snow Scholarship Fund, 1860 N. Dixie Hwy., Boca Raton, Florida 33432 and noting that the contribution is in support of my participation in the Ballroom Battle.

3. Attending the dance competition on August 20, 2010 at the Boca Raton Resort and Club.

Jerry Fedele has more than 24 years of health care experience as both a health care lawyer and chief executive officer. His expertise includes executive leadership, operations, quality and patient satisfaction improvement initiatives, physician recruitment and network development, clinical program development, strategic planning, insurance and law.

Mr. Fedele has experience in both academic and community hospital settings. Over the last 12 years he has focused on restructuring and improving financially challenged hospitals. Mr. Fedele is credited with saving a major academic hospital and three community hospital affiliates from the largest health care bankruptcy in US history through removing the hospitals from bankruptcy proceedings, restructuring debt, implementing a financial turnaround exceeding $140 million dollars, and completing a transformational refinancing exceeding $750 million. Mr. Fedele is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Boca Raton Community Hospital where he led an initiative that resulted in operations improvement of $60 million over 18 months. Boca Raton Community Hospital is an advanced hospital with several tertiary programs including the #1 program in cardiac surgery, #1 program in gastroenterology, #2 program in stroke care, and #3 program in cardiology in the state of Florida. The Hospital provides oncology services that are competitive with major academic medical centers nationally and the Hospital is consistently ranked among the top 5% of hospitals nationally.

Mr. Fedele received his Bachelors of Science in Mathematics with honors and Master of Business Administration degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and a Juris Doctor degree from Duquesne University School of Law where he was class valedictorian.