Mr. Patrick J. Scollard, President and CEO of Catholic Health Services of Long Island announced the appointment of Martin A. Bieber as President and Chief Executive Officer of Mercy Medical Center in Rockville Centre. Mr. Bieber had been serving as the institution’s interim chief executive during the past eight months.

Mr. Scollard stated, “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. His prior tenure in the health care field underscores the enormous depth of his professional expertise and his deeply held personal commitment to Catholic Health Services of Long Island.”

Mercy Medical Center is a 387-bed hospital in the heart of Long Island’s vibrant south shore. Its facilities include the regional home of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The medical center grounds are adjacent to the campus of Molloy College, a dynamic Catholic college whose nursing students find careers at Mercy and surrounding hospitals.

Mr. 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 to meet the evolving challenges facing every hospital today.”  

Until recently Mr. Bieber was Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of St. Francis Hospital, the Heart Center, in Roslyn, New York, a role in which he has served for over five years.

Previously, he held the position of 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, to include information systems.

Mr. Bieber came to St. Francis Hospital as Vice President and Chief Information Officer in 1992 from Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, where he served in a comparable role.  

Prior to his hospital experience, Mr. Bieber served as Assistant Chief Auditor for the Hospital Division of the Deputy Attorney General for Medicare/Medicaid Fraud Control of the State of New York.  He also worked on the Audit and Tax staff of Eisner and Lubin, Certified Public Accountants.

While working at Beth Israel Medical Center Mr. Bieber was an Adjunct Lecturer at the Wagner School of New York University, where he taught Healthcare Information Systems at the graduate level.

For a period of nineteen years, Mr. Bieber served on the voluntary Board of Directors of the Developmental Disabilities Institute (DDI), and subsequently, the Developmental Disabilities Institute Foundation.  DDI is an agency that specializes in day and residential services to autistic children and adults.  While Mr. Bieber is no longer actively involved with DDI, he remains committed to supporting adults and children with developmental disabilities.

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