Frank Fernandez, Assistant Vice President, Baptist Health South Florida

Frank Fernandez is the Principal Officer and Chief Supply Chain Strategist for waypoint2580, a Miami, Florida company established to provide supply chain strategic services, subject matter expertise, advisory services, operational assessments, B2B linkages, and business developments services, to various market segments, including but lot limited to, healthcare organizations, individuals, manufacturers, healthcare consultants, not-for-profit organizations, distributors and suppliers and suppliers.

Mr. Fernandez has a distinguished careen in healthcare supply chain services. He retired in December, 2016 as Assistant Vice President of Supply Chain Services, from Baptist Health South Florida, after 33 years of service. Headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida, Baptist Health South Florida, a faith based, not-for-profit health system, is the largest, most successful private healthcare network in South Florida. Baptist Health South Florida currently operates six acute care hospitals and several outpatient diagnostic, surgical, and treatment facilities, located throughout Miami-Dade, Broward, Monroe, and Palm Beach Counties. Baptist Health South Florida also supports a number of free clinics, providing services to the needy in the South Florida community. Baptist Health South Florida’s mission is “to improve the health of individuals and to promote the preservation and sanctity of life in the communities it serves”.

During his tenure at Baptist Health, he performed various roles that included serving as its representative on the Premier GPO’s Strategic Advisory Committee, where he served since 1996, and was its first Committee Chair. He directed Baptist Health South Florida’s GPO affiliate initiatives in South Florida and the Caribbean Basin. He is has been responsible for managing pharmaceutical and medical distribution prime vendor agreements, and has spearheaded the development of Direct Distribution Agreements, to support Baptist Health South Florida’s 150,000 square feet Consolidated Distribution and Services Center (CDSC), which opened in November, 2014.

Mr. Fernandez was a founding member of the Premier GPO’s Supplier Diversity Committee. He served on the Board of Directors of the Florida State Minority Supplier Development Council and on Baptist Health South Florida’s Diversity Council. In 2008, Mr. Fernandez was recognized By the Florida State Minority Supplier Development Council with the “Advocate of the Year Award”, in recognition for his role to promote health care supplier diversity initiatives within his organization and nationally, and for his role in mentoring small and minority-owned businesses on how to navigate the healthcare supply chain. In September 2016, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Council’s annual awards gala, for “Transforming The Healthcare Supplier Diversity Landscape Forever”. He also served on the national Board of Directors of the Coalition for Healthcare eStandards, where he participated pioneering work to facilitate the seamless transmission of data among suppliers, distributors, manufacturers, GPOs and healthcare providers.

Frank Fernandez served as a Director, and Vice President of the Board of Directors, of Combined Services Inc. (CSI) – a shared laundry company that is jointly owned by

Baptist Health South Florida and other South Florida hospitals and health systems.

Prior to his long career at Baptist, Mr. Fernandez worked at the Public Health Trust of Miami-Dade County/Jackson Memorial Hospital, in various capacities. Jackson Memorial Hospital is the teaching hospital to the University of Miami School of Medicine. At the Public Health Trust, Mr. Fernandez worked as Assistant Administrator of the Maternal and Child Hospital Center, where his responsibilities included administrative oversight of the Neonatal Intensive Care Center, an 80-bed center of excellence that included Neonatal Intensive Care, Neonatal Intermediate Care, Neonatal Minimal Care, and Neonatal Surgery.

Throughout his career, Mr. Fernandez has written a number of highly acclaimed articles that were published in industry magazines. He has spoken extensively on various supply chain topics, including sourcing, inventory analysis, distribution, models, e-commerce, supplier diversity, and supply chain automation. He was a founding member, President, and Treasurer of the South Florida chapter of the Association for Healthcare Resource and Materials Management (AHRMM), of the American Hospital Association.

A graduate of Florida International University, Mr. Fernandez, who is originally from Cuba, has lived in South Florida since the early 1960s. He believes in giving back to the community. He currently serves on Board of Directors of the Girl Scout Council of Tropical. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the South Florida Council of the Boy Scouts of America, having served as Council President from 2013 through 2015. He is the recipient of the Sliver Beaver Award – the highest award that is bestowed on Boy Scout Council volunteers. He has also earned the Woodbadge, and the Powderhorn awards, highest training program awards for Scout and high adventure Venturing Leaders.

Frank Fernandez is an outdoor enthusiast who enjoys hiking, backpacking, camping, and particularly sea kayaking. He has participated in numerous backcountry-kayaking expeditions in the Florida Everglades, the Florida Keys, Biscayne Bay, and the Biscayne National Park. He co-lead a 50-mile youth Venturing sea kayaking trek in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and three long-distance, high altitude, 10-day backpacking expeditions, in the New Mexico mountains. He volunteers as Assistant Scoutmaster, and Venturing Crew Advisor of a Scout-sponsored high adventure group, dedicated to leadership development for young men and women, ages 14 through 20 years of age, through participation in challenging outdoor experiences.

Frank is married to his wife of 38 years, Marietta. They have two grown children, Valentina and Franco, and one grandson, Julién René.