Mr. Hubel serves as hospital president of Baptist Medical Center Clay, a 102-bed medical and surgical center that opened in December 2022 as a six-story, 300,000-square-foot facility employing more than 700 team members across more than 20 specialties, including labor and delivery, orthopedics, bariatric surgery, minimally invasive robotic-assisted surgery and cancer care. He joined Jacksonville-based Baptist Health in 1996 and brings more than 30 years of healthcare leadership experience, having become Baptist Clay’s interim hospital president in July 2023 before taking the permanent role in January 2024. Under his leadership, Baptist Clay has earned an “A” rating in patient safety from the Leapfrog Group for the past two years. Mr. Hubel previously served seven years as president of the 62-bed Baptist Medical Center Nassau in Fernandina Beach, Fla., where the hospital received an “A” Leapfrog patient safety rating 14 consecutive times, was named a “Top Hospital” by the Leapfrog Group and a “Top 100 Rural & Community Hospital” by the Chartis Center for Rural Health, and ranked among Press Ganey’s top 5% of U.S. hospitals for patient satisfaction. He has received the American College of Healthcare Executives’ “Distinguished Service Award,” and has previously served on the American Hospital Association’s rural health services committee and the Florida Hospital Association’s rural hospital committee.
