CPA Elena Barberis Named VP of Finance at Holy Cross Health

Fort Lauderdale, Florida (December 4, 2024) – Elena Barberis, CPA, has accepted the role of Vice President of Finance for both Trinity Health Holy Cross Health in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and St. Mary’s Health Care System in Athens, Georgia. She and her ministry-based teams will provide financial and strategic planning and support to the CEOs, the regional CFO, boards and leadership teams in addition to Trinity Health’s finance department.

Over the past 18 years, Barberis has served in leadership positions in healthcare systems in the Miami and Atlanta metro areas. She spent 11 years at Jackson Health System in South Florida, rising to the position of Vice President of Finance. She was part of a financial turnaround team to ensure financial reporting and integrity during an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system implementation. As the system budget director there, she developed the complex $2 billion annual operating budget. Barberis also served as associate chief financial officer of Jackson North Medical Center, a 399 licensed-bed hospital. As Vice President, she developed and managed a $1.6 billion multi-year capital plan that resulted in countless infrastructure projects, inpatient and outpatient facilities, a new rehabilitation hospital and a new acute care hospital.  

In 2020, Barberis and her family relocated to the Atlanta area, where she joined Piedmont Healthcare as executive director of finance. Most recently she was executive director and controller for Northeast Georgia Health System, where she led the successful Workday ERP implementation for finance, managing the first single audit for grant reporting and two bond issuances and streamlined and in-sourced several processes, developing and training staff in-house.

A CPA in both Florida and Georgia, Barberis earned a Bachelor of Science in Communication and Political Science from the University of Miami and Master of Science in Finance from Florida International University. She has long been a member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association in Florida and is now a member in Georgia. She is also a member of the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants and has served as treasurer of various local boards.

 

ABOUT HOLY CROSS HEALTH 
A member of Trinity Health, Fort Lauderdale-based Holy Cross Hospital, dba Holy Cross Health, is a full-service, not-for-profit, Catholic, teaching hospital operating in the spirit of the Sisters of Mercy. Holy Cross has been recognized for six Types of Care in U.S. News and World Report’s 2024-25 Best Hospital rankings and was named among the 2024 America’s Best-In-State Hospitals by Newsweek. Through strategic collaborations and a commitment to being a person-centered, transforming, healing presence, the 557-bed hospital offers progressive inpatient, outpatient and community outreach services and clinical research trials to serve as our community’s trusted health partner for life. Holy Cross Health also encompasses Holy Cross HealthPlex outpatient facility, an urgent care center and more than 40 Holy Cross Medical Group physician practices. To learn more about Holy Cross Health, visit holy-cross.com. Connect @holycrossfl.