• Ron Robinson has been named vice president at Baptist Health. He will be responsible for overseeing cancer services, imaging, the Baptist Eye Institute, pharmacy, laboratory, adult pulmonary care and rehabilitative services. He will also have responsibility for planning Baptist Medical Center South, a new 92-bed hospital on the Southside which is currently in the approval process.
• The St. Joe Company will break ground on its 140,000 square-foot office building at 245 Riverside Ave. Jan. 23 at 10 a.m. The building will serve as St. Joe’s headquarters, but will have about 100,000 square-feet available for other tenants.
• Edgar Pruitt has been named vice president of human resources operations at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida. Pruitt will be responsible for talent acquisition, employee services, human resources information systems, employee relations and training.
• Mayor John Delaney will present a quarterly report on the Better Jacksonville Plan to the City Council Tuesday at 6 p.m. in Council chambers. He will also present a report to the Better Jacksonville Plan Citizens Oversight Committee at 6 p.m. Thursday in the mayor’s conference room.
• The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Association (AIWA), which is based in Alexandria, Va., is holding a two-day conference at the Adam’s Mark Hotel and drawing crowds mostly from the Southeast, but some from as far away as New Jersey. The group’s purpose is to raise money to protect the Intracoastal Waterway which runs from Virginia to Florida.
• Mayor Delaney has been nominated by the American Biographical Institute as its Man of the Year for 2002.