Sisters of Charity Health System appoints Mercy Medical Center’s Nick Bagnolo to Vice President, Con

1/8/2010

Cleveland, Ohio (January 8, 2010)¬¬—FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—Nick Bagnolo, Mercy Medical Center’s administrative director of plant engineering and facilities, has been appointed vice president of construction management for the Cleveland, Ohio-based Sisters of Charity Health System (SCHS).

With more than 22 years of experience in health care facilities management, Bagnolo will be responsible for overseeing construction projects and their related approvals and design and financial management at all SCHS facilities in Ohio and South Carolina, including Mercy Medical Center. He will continue to provide oversight to plant operations at Mercy with additional support.  

Sr. Judith Ann Karam, CSA, SCHS president and CEO, believes the experience and engineering expertise Bagnolo brings to the position will provide needed expertise and oversight for the multiple construction projects throughout the system. “I feel confident that Nick’s leadership, oversight and supervision will help our hospitals and other entities to realize more efficient and cost-effective building projects as we move forward with our strategic goals that support our mission to respond to the unmet health and human service needs in the communities we serve,” she says.

Bagnolo, who began his career at Massillon Community Hospital in 1987, came to Mercy in 1997, where he has administered building and boiler plant maintenance, construction, property management, environmental services and laundry, safety and security, courier and valet services, telecommunications and clinical engineering.

Instrumental in helping to develop Mercy’s facilities master plan—including the new I.C.U. and current emergency department construction—he has also directed several other major additions and renovations for the surgery, heart and cancer centers, radiology and offsite health centers.

A graduate of St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Louisville, Bagnolo earned his bachelor of science in construction technology from the University of Akron. He and his wife live in North Canton with their three children.