Community End-of-2025 Message from the Board of Directors

Community End-of-2025 Letter

Dear North Brevard Friends and Neighbors:

There are thousands of reasons - tens of thousands of reasons - why your friends and neighbors who work or volunteer at Parrish Medical Center thank you for the privilege of caring for you and your families.

The gratitude to you felt by the 1,300 Parrish team members - our Care Partners - stems from enabling them to fulfill their professional goal of devoting their lives to the service of others.

Parrish Care Partners are here when you need them, every minute of every day. Without fail. Without even a pause. On sunny days or during hurricanes. Here’s the record, so far in 2025, of work done in only a small number of the areas in which Parrish provides services to our community:

• Emergency Room Patients Treated: 32,294
• Total Diagnostic Images: 17,645
• Inpatient Admissions: 4,888
• Surgeries and Other Procedures: 7,548

That this service is a privilege is neither an exaggeration nor overstatement: it’s a sacred trust: You’re trusting in the professionalism, experience, training, ability, and determination, of everyone at PMC to do the right thing, the right way, for you and for those about whom you care.

Parrish’s focus on patient and family safety, experience, and care outcomes, has earned Parrish’s Care Partners many national and international awards and much recognition. It’s the result of following and living Parrish’s mission, vision, and values, which were written with our community in mind:

• Mission: Healing Experiences for Everyone All the Time®
• Vision: Healing Families—Healing Communities®
• Values: Safety, loyalty, integrity, compassion, excellence, and stewardship

In a perfect world, every medical condition and disease could be cured. Obviously, that’s not possible. But it’s always possible to provide healing experiences in word and deed. This healing priority extends from the board of directors, to administration, to every member of our team. And it starts at the top. To illustrate, George Mikitarian, Parrish’s president and CEO, received the "Healing Hospital CEO of the Year 2025" award from the Erie Chapman Foundation, recognizing George’s commitment to our patients and their families, and to a compassionate workplace culture.

Is healthcare challenging? Yes. A great responsibility? No question. Demanding? Without a doubt. Did every member of Parrish’s family of Care Partners sign up to meet the challenge, and take on the responsibility to excel in the face of demands? Absolutely. Why? The answer is seen when you look in a mirror. It’s you.

On behalf of the board of directors and all Parrish Care Partners, we again collectively thank you for allowing Parrish to serve you. We hope nothing but good health for you in 2026; however, if, or when, you need Parrish Care Partners to respond to your needs, whatever your needs, they will be here for you. All the time.