People news: Finger Lakes Health names Garrison facilities director

GENEVA, N.Y. — Finger Lakes Health announced it has appointed Leo Garrison as its new facilities director.

Garrison comes to the health system with more than 30 years’ experience in the health care and facilities field. He most recently served as director of engineering and facilities at Hartford Hospital. There, Garrison oversaw the planning and construction of a $150 million orthopaedic hospital and savings of nearly $500,000 in IT infrastructure development, according to a Finger Lakes Health release.

He began his career working in various administrative leadership roles before serving in health-care management roles in Illinois, New York, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Kentucky, and Connecticut. Garrison’s experience includes Mercy Hospital as VP and chief operating officer, Roswell Park Cancer Center Institute VP, Bryant and Stratton College as an adjunct professor in health-care administration, and as a regional director of facility management for Catholic health initiatives at KentuckyOne Health.

“I’m truly excited about having Leo pick up the reins as I head off into retirement,” Mike VanWormer, current facilities director, who plans to retire in January, said in a statement. “I don’t think that Finger Lakes Health could have done any better than to recruit someone of his caliber.”

Garrison graduated with a bachelor’s degree in political science from Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, and proceeded to earn a master’s degree in health-care administration from George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

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