Parrish Medical Center President/CEO George Mikitarian Named One of the Top Community Hospital CEO's by Becker's Hospital Review for Two Consecutive Years

TITUSVILLE, FL (June 18, 2024)—Parrish Medical Center President/CEO George Mikitarian, DHA, FACHE, has again been named by Becker’s Hospital Review as one of the top “Community Hospital CEOs to Know” (2024). This is the second consecutive year Becker’s has recognized Dr. Mikitarian among the nation’s top “CEO’s to Know.”

According to Becker’s, “Community hospitals are often the unsung heroes in healthcare, and CEOs are tasked with managing the delivery of coordinated and affordable community care.”

This is particularly true of independent, public, not-for-profit community hospitals, like Parrish Medical Center (PMC), that lack the material financial and other resource “cushions” enjoyed by large, multi-hospital systems or for-profit systems, as observed within a recent study published by PYA, a nationally top-ranked CPA firm.

Since taking the helm as President/CEO in 2001, Dr. Mikitarian, and Parrish Medical Center, have had to navigate significant local and national economic and market disruptions. According to a recent independent study published by PYA, “The past two decades, the North Brevard County healthcare economy experienced a number of external macroeconomic shocks. The first was the Great Recession of 2009 that followed the US housing market implosion that hit Florida particularly hard. The second was the end of NASA’s space shuttle program in 2011, resulting in over 20,000 job losses that are still being recouped to this day. Third, and most important, was the pandemic, which impacted health system demand in ways never previously experienced by the industry.”

Among Dr. Mikitarian’s many professional honors are: Citizen of the Year by Florida Today/Gannett; Junior Achievement Spirit of Achievement Award; United Way of Brevard County Chairman’s Circle Award; Leadership Brevard’s Community Leadership National Award and their Rodney S. Ketcham Leadership Icon Award; Business Leader of the Year by Space Coast Business Magazine; and earning the Boy Scouts of America’s Golden Eagle and Silver Beaver awards.

To note, Becker's Hospital Review editorial team developed this list based on nominations and editorial research. Leaders cannot pay for inclusion on the list. For more information visit beckershospitalreview.com, 160 community hospital CEOs to know | 2024 and 107 community hospital CEOs to know | 2023 (beckershospitalreview.com).