Sarasota Memorial Health Care System hired Lorrie Liang, currently vice president of the not-for-profit LifeBridge Health System/Sinai Hospital of Baltimore in Maryland, as its new chief operating officer. Liang will assume her new leadership role at Sarasota Memorial on Feb. 16. LifeBridge is a $1.3-billion integrated health system providing a full continuum of care through two acute-care hospitals, a chronic care/sub-acute hospital, skilled nursing facility, inpatient rehab facility, children's hospital, express care centers and network of physicians, home care and Hospice services. Sinai Hospital, one of the largest community teaching hospitals in Maryland, is a level 2 trauma center with 504 beds, 4,600 employees and an 1,100-member medical staff. Liang has more than 25 years of experience leading hospital operations, service lines, physician practice groups, graduate medical education and clinical research programs in academic and community health systems.

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