GREGORY HOFFMAN-FRAGALE

GREGORY HOFFMAN-FRAGALE was recently named associate chief nursing officer at Finger Lakes Health. Most recently, he served as the director of nursing operations for imaging sciences at the University of Rochester Medical Center, where he made significant improvements in leadership development, patient satisfaction, and nurse-sensitive clinical outcomes. As a registered nurse, Hoffman-Fragale worked at Community General Hospital in Syracuse, and held his first directorship at Auburn Memorial Hospital, before heading downstate to the New York City metropolitan area, where he held various administrative nursing roles in acute care, critical care, and post-acute nursing for 12 years. Hoffman-Fragale is dual board-certified as an advanced nurse executive and gerontological nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. He earned his doctor of nursing practice degree from Old Dominion University and his master’s degree in health-care administration (MHA) from St. Joseph’s College of Maine. He completed both his bachelor’s and associate degrees in nursing from Excelsior University in Albany.