Physician named to Beaufort Memorial Hospital board – Bluffton Today

Beaufort County Council has appointed Dr. Stacey Johnston to the Beaufort Memorial Hospital Board of Trustees.

Johnston replaces pediatrician Dr. James Simmons, who stepped down this spring after serving 10 years on the nine-member board.

A board-certified family medicine specialist, Johnston has been a hospitalist at Beaufort Memorial for eight years. She is a graduate of Emory University School of Medicine and completed her residency at Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah in 2009.

Johnston is the chief medical information officer for the hospitalist program and has served as its medical director for the last five years. She served as a Girl Scouts leader in Beaufort for seven years.

Johnston will serve the remaining two years of Simmons third term. She was one of two candidates the board recommended to council to fill the vacant seat.

County Council recognized Dr. Johnstons longstanding commitment to improving the health of the community, board chair Terry Murray said. We welcome her to the board and look forward to her contributions.

Doran appointed VP of quality services

Beaufort Memorial has named Shawna Doran its vice president of quality services, responsible for planning and leading all quality, patient safety, risk and patient experience initiatives.

For the last year, Doran has served as corporate director of quality. The hospital has received national honors for quality and safety from the Joint Commission and Blue Cross Blue Shield.

Before becoming a registered nurse, Doran was a litigation paralegal for 15 years. She joined Beaufort Memorial in 2004 in the hospitals progressive care unit and then the surgical services department.

Doran was named quality coordinator of the department and played an integral role in the development of the Percutaneous Coronary Intervention program, allowing the hospital to perform emergency cardiac interventions on patients suffering deadly heart attacks.

Doran was named director of quality and regulatory affairs in 2015 and within a year was promoted to corporate director of quality.

Butterfield joins Beaufort Memorial Cardiology

Dr. Lee Butterfield has joined Beaufort Memorial Cardiology, where he is working with board-certified interventional cardiologist Dr. David Harshman.

Trained in general cardiology, interventional cardiology and vascular medicine, Butterfield has practiced the last 13 years in Columbia with South Carolina Heart Center and Palmetto Cardiology Associates.

His professional interests include treatment of acute coronary syndromes and structural heart disease, especially as it relates to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Butterfield received a biology degree from Washington and Lee University, where he lettered in football and basketball. In 1995, he earned a medical degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

He completed his internship and residency at the Yale University School of Medicine-New Haven Hospital and fellowships in general cardiology and interventional cardiology at the Medical University of South Carolina.

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