AdventHealth Names Chief Financial Officer for Medical Group

FLAGLER, LAKE and VOLUSIA COUNTIES, Fla., December 11, 2019 – AdventHealth has selected Sam Fulton as chief financial officer for AdventHealth Medical Group in the Central Florida Division – North Region.

Effective Jan. 6, Fulton will lead strategic financial and capital planning, investment and debt management, rate setting, and reimbursement and financial reporting for AdventHealth’s employed group of more than 300 providers, including 160 primary care doctors and specialists in Volusia, Flagler and Lake counties.

Fulton has 22 years of leadership experience and previously served as the vice president and chief financial officer for the medical group at CHI St. Luke's Health-Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center in Houston, Texas. In this role, Fulton oversaw financial functions for CHI Texas – Physician Enterprise, a multi-specialty medical group encompassing more than 400 providers across southeast Texas.

At Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, Fulton earned a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Master of Business Administration.

A Houston native, he was the board president for the Prenatal Clinic of the Brazos Valley in Bryan, Texas, and is a member of the American Medical Group Association and the Healthcare Financial Management Association.

About AdventHealth Central Florida Division - North Region
Encompassing six AdventHealth hospitals in Flagler, Lake and Volusia counties, the AdventHealth Central Florida Division - North Region is the largest hospital system in the area with 1,196 beds and more than 8,000 team members. The North Region includes facilities in Daytona Beach, DeLand, Orange City, New Smyrna Beach, Palm Coast and Tavares. Formerly known as Florida Hospital, the organization’s parent company changed the name of all wholly-owned entities to AdventHealth on Jan. 2, 2019. Based in Altamonte Springs, AdventHealth is a connected system of care. With more than 80,000 team members, AdventHealth is one of the nation’s largest faith-based health care systems with nearly 50 hospitals and hundreds of care sites in nearly a dozen states. With the mission of Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ, AdventHealth provides whole person care to heal the body, mind and spirit. To learn more, click here.