BOCA RATON — West Boca Medical Center announced the appointment of Linda Ballou as its new director of plant operations. In this role, Ballou will direct the day-to-day activities and personnel of the Plant Operations Department, promoting a safe and comfortable environment by maintaining the operations of all plant and facility assets on the West Boca Medical Center Campus.
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’s career directing plant operations for hospital systems across south Florida spans 11 years. “We welcome Linda Ballou into her new position as director of plant operations at West Boca Medical Center,” said Mitch Feldman, chief executive officer. “West Boca Medical Center is a large facility, with an expansive list of services from women’s health, to our Birth Care Pavilion, to pediatrics and orthopedic surgery; our doctors and staff will depend on Ballou’s leadership and expertise to maintain a safe and productive operating environment for staff, patients and visitors.”
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. She is a Certified Healthcare Facilities Manger through the American Hospital Association and studied at Palm Beach Community College.