The Glynn-Brunswick Memorial Hospital Authority is pleased to announce
the appointment of Robert C. Turner and Joanne M. Matukaitis, MSN, R.N.,
FABC, FAACVPR, as the newest members of the Authority.
Robert Turner
Robert Turner, a Brunswick resident, was nominated by the Brunswick City
Commission. He is a lifelong resident of Glynn County and owner of Turner
& Associates Insurance, with offices in Brunswick and St. Simons Island.
Turner started his career in 1985 for what was then called Palmer &
Cay. After working at the firm for 18 years, he acquired the local office
and later in 2011 acquired Arthur Pittman and Company. He has a bachelor’s
degree in Business Administration from the University of Georgia and is
a Charted Property and Casualty Underwriter.
Turner has been involved extensively in the local community for more than
25 years. He is past president and Paul Harris Fellow in the Rotary Club,
an active member of the Brunswick-Golden Isles Chamber of Commerce, and
a 1999 graduate of Leadership Glynn. He was a charter member of the Brunswick
Audit Committee and served as its chairman for two years. He was a district
director of the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia and has served
on the President’s Council of Builders Insurance Company. Turner
has been active in local United Methodist churches for more than 25 years
and is a former board member of The Gathering Place, a community-based
youth ministry.
“Our quality of life is outstanding in Glynn County and having excellent
health care is part of what
make
this a great place to live and raise a family,” Turner says. “I
look forward to using my years of business and community service experience
to enhance health care in our region through my service on the Hospital
Authority.”
Joanne M. Matukaitis, MSN, R.N., FABC, FAACVPR,
Joanne M. Matukaitis, MSN, R.N., FABC, FAACVPR, also a Brunswick resident,
was nominated by the Glynn County Commission. A registered nurse for more
than 30 years, she has extensive clinical and leadership experience in
cardiovascular nursing, most recently as director of Cardiovascular /Critical
Care Patient Care Services at Christiana Care Health System in Newark,
Delaware, a position she retired from in June 2012. Matukaitis began her
nursing career in 1979 and progressed through a variety of clinical and
management positions at hospitals, physician practices and cardiac rehabilitation
centers in Maryland, New Jersey and New York. In 1991, she joined Christiana
Health System as a staff nurse. She was promoted to manager of Heart and
Vascular Outreach in 1995 and to director of Cardiovascular /Critical
Care Patient Care Services in 2002, assuming leadership of all the hospital’s
critical care, open heart
and
step-down nursing units.
Matukaitis earned a bachelor’s degree in Nursing and a master’s
degree in Nursing Administration from the University of Delaware. She
has been certified as a Nursing Executive through the American Nursing
Credentialing Center and a Fellow of the American Association of Cardiovascular/Pulmonary
Rehabilitation and The Advisory Board Council, Washington. D.C.
“I am honored to be selected as a member of the Hospital Authority,
and I am excited about using my years of professional health care experience
in service to my new community,” Matukaitis says.
The Authority is made up of nine members—the City Commission nominates
four, the County Commission nominates four =and one is a city/county nominee.
Authority members are then appointed by the sitting members. Each of these
members volunteers his or her time to oversee the not-for-profit Health System.