Longtime UMMC employee promoted to V.P. of operations

United Memorial Medical Center has promoted Daniel P. Ireland from vice president of clinical support services to the position of vice president of operations.
 
Ireland has had a long and varied career at United Memorial. He began in 1990 as an orderly/medic and progressed to floor nurse on a medical/surgical unit. He worked as the emergency department nurse manager at the time of the Amtrak train disaster in 1994. In 1998, he was IT clinical analyst, an administrative analyst in 2001 and director of quality management in December 2004. He assumed the administrative duties of ancillary departments and Hope Haven and was promoted to vice president of clinical support services in 2005.
 
Ireland has oversight of many of UMMC’s capital improvement projects including the Jerome Center diagnostic and housing renovations, the surgical expansion project, and the physical therapy relocation project at Genesee Community College. He also serves as the administrator of all emergency preparedness activities at UMMC and as a liaison to the Genesee County Health Department.
 
While employed full time at United Memorial, Ireland completed his Associate's Degree in Nursing from Genesee Community College in 1992, his BSN from SUNY Brockport in 1994, and received an MBA from RIT in 1997. He is a member of the Leadership Genesee class of 2006 and a recipient of Business First of Buffalo's first 40 Under 40 Award in 2007. He's a lifelong resident of Genesee County and lives in Byron with his wife, Amy, and their three children.