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The boards of directors of Baptist Health and Wolfson Children’s Hospital appointed children’s health care administrator Michael Aubin as hospital president for Wolfson Children’s Hospital effective Jan. 1.
The hospital is part of the Baptist campus on the Downtown Southbank.
Aubin was founding administrator and chief operating officer for St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital of Tampa. St. Joseph’s is part of BayCare Health System.
Aubin will follow Larry Freeman, who recently retired after more than 34 years as head of Wolfson Children’s Hospital.
Aubin will work with physicians and administrators with hospital partners Nemours Children’s Clinic, the University of Florida College of Medicine/Jacksonville and Mayo Clinic Florida.
Baptist Health leaders said Aubin was chosen after a nationwide search for a hospital president.
“I am looking forward to working with the visionary leaders both at Baptist Health and in the community that have taken children’s health to its current state and helping lead it to the next level of excellence,” said Aubin.
Baptist Health is a faith-based, mission-driven system consisting of Baptist Medical Center Downtown and Baptist Heart Hospital; Baptist Medical Center Beaches; Baptist Medical Center Nassau; Baptist Medical Center South; and Wolfson Children’s Hospital.
Wolfson is a 194-bed pediatric referral hospital serving the children of North Florida, Southeast Georgia and beyond.