HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital selects new chief nursing officer

HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital has appointed Mary Tabor, MSN, RN, NE-BC, as its new Chief Nursing Officer. Tabor has been with HCA Healthcare for 18 years and a nurse for 27 years, most recently serving as Chief Nursing Officer at HCA Florida St. Petersburg Hospital.

Tabor is a Commander in the United States Naval Reserve, Nurse Corps, where she was inspired to pursue nursing leadership after her 2013 deployment to Afghanistan. She has two Navy & Marine Corps Commendation medals and two Navy & Marine Corps Achievement medals and plans to retire from the military in March 2023.

As the Chief Nursing Officer, Tabor oversees clinical nursing operations throughout the hospital system, which includes HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital, HCA Florida Park West Emergency, HCA Florida Normandy Park Emergency, and a third freestanding emergency room HCA Florida Middleburg Emergency, set to open this fall.