By Jennifer Marino
The appointment was announced by Patrick J. Scollard, president and CEO of Catholic Health Services of Long Island. "Martin Bieber is an outstanding health care professional with the energy, focus and vision that will provide Mercy Medical Center with the managerial leadership required to meet the needs of the community it serves," said Scollard, in a press release.
Previously, Bieber was senior vice president and chief operating officer of St. Francis Hospital, the Heart Center, in Roslyn for over five years. He was also senior vice president for administrative services for both St. Francis Hospital and Mercy Medical Center, where he was responsible for integrating a number of administrative and clinical services.
Bieber also worked in Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, and the Hospital Division of the Deputy Attorney General for Medicare/Medicaid fraud control. While at Beth Israel, he was an adjunct lecturer at the Wagner School of New York University, teaching healthcare information systems at a graduate level.
For 19 years, Bieber served on the voluntary board of directors of the Developmental Disabilities Institute (DDI) and the Developmental Disabilities Institute Foundation. Today, he is no longer actively involved with DDI but remains committed to supporting adults and children with developmental disabilities.
On his appointment at Mercy, Bieber stated, "This institution has an enormously talented staff whose dedication and skills are harnessed everyday for the purpose of protecting the health of our patients. I am proud to be associated with them and look forward to creating new partnerships in medicine that will enable us to meet the evolving challenges facing every hospital today."
