Baptist Beaches Administrator Becomes Fellow in American College of Healthcare Executives

Jacksonville, Florida, February 12, 2007 -- Baptist Medical Center Beaches Administrator Mark Slyter has advanced to Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives, earning the FACHE designation.

To earn the FACHE credential, health care executives must:

Have a bachelor's degree, master's degree or other advanced degree

Have five years' healthcare management experience

Pass the Board of Governors Examination in Healthcare Management

Complete 40 hours of continuing education credit in the prior five years, 12 hours of which must be Category I (ACHE education) credits

Participate in health care and community/civic activities

Slyter has been administrator of Baptist Medical Center Beaches since August 2005. He came to Jacksonville in 2003, joining Baptist Health as vice president, Operations.

He earned both his Bachelor of Science degree and his master's degree in Health Services Administration from the University of Kansas in Lawrence before beginning his health care career in the Greenville Hospital System in Greenville, South Carolina. After serving as administrator of Hillcrest Hospital for four years, Slyter assumed additional duties as administrator of Patewood Medical Campus, also part of the Greenville Hospital System.

Slyter served as the president of American College of Healthcare Executives' Upstate South Carolina's Healthcare Executive Group in 2002. He was a member of the Leadership Jacksonville class of 2004-05.

A resident of Jacksonville Beach, Slyter is actively involved in the local community and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Jacksonville Beach Chamber of Commerce, the Ponte Vedra Chamber of Commerce, and Fleet Landing in Atlantic Beach. He also is assistant chairman of the volunteer Medical Services Committee for the annual Players Championship golf tournament.