Sarasota Memorial Health Care System has appointed Jeff Limbocker – a healthcare executive with more than 20 years of financial leadership – to become its next chief financial officer, effective Oct. 3, 2022. Limbocker will succeed William Woeltjen, who is retiring at the end of the year. Woeltjen, who has served 12 years as Sarasota Memorial's CFO and three previous years as treasurer, will remain a key member of the SMH executive team as he guides and advises Limbocker through the transition.

Under Woeltjen's financial management, Sarasota Memorial facilitated the largest expansion in its nearly century of service, opening its new hospital in Venice and the Oncology Tower on the Sarasota campus last year and embarking on a critically needed behavioral health pavilion and outpatient oncology pavilion this year, all while navigating escalating costs and supply and staffing challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In recent years, SMH also constructed the Courtyard Tower and Rehabilitation Pavilion and created a Trauma Center and physician residency programs, important additions to the Sarasota campus supported by the system's financial stability.

"Bill has been an invaluable member of our leadership team whose contributions have strengthened our health system and benefitted our entire community," said David Verinder, president and CEO of Sarasota Memorial Health Care System. "We have two very big shoes to fill, and I want to thank Bill for his dedication and strategic guidance the past 15 years and his ongoing support as we welcome Jeff, another longtime financial executive, to our organization and community."

Limbocker comes to Sarasota from Baton Rouge, LA, where he has worked in leadership roles with the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System since 1995. He served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of the not-for-profit, multi-hospital system for the past three years, and previously served 10 years as regional CFO for the health system's Baton Rouge market and Lady of the Lake Medical Center.