UR Medicine Finger Lakes Health names chief nursing officer

GENEVA, N.Y. — UR Medicine Finger Lakes Health announced it has recently appointed Gregory Hoffman-Fragale as its new chief nursing officer.

He joined Finger Lakes Health in June 2023 as associate chief nursing officer. In February of this year, Hoffman-Fragale began serving as interim chief nursing officer.

With more than 30 years of nursing-leadership experience, he previously served as the director of nursing operations for imaging sciences at University of Rochester Medical Center, where he made significant improvements in leadership development, patient satisfaction, and nurse-sensitive clinical outcomes, according to a news release from UR Medicine Finger Lakes Health.

As a registered nurse, Hoffman-Fragale worked at Community General Hospital in Syracuse and held his first directorship at Auburn Memorial Hospital. He then headed downstate to the New York City metropolitan area where for 12 years he held various administrative nursing roles in acute care, critical care, and post-acute nursing.

Hoffman-Fragale earned his doctor of nursing practice degree from Old Dominion University and his master’s degree in health-care administration from St. Joseph’s College of Maine. Hoffman-Fragale completed both his bachelor’s and associate’s degrees in nursing from Excelsior University in Albany.