Arnold Andrews, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
WestCare Eastern/Offshore Region
1942 - 2006
ST. PETERSBURG (August 28, 2006)
– Arnold Andrews, senior vice president and chief
operating officer for the WestCare Foundation’s Eastern/Offshore
Division, based in St. Petersburg, was among the victims
of the Sunday, August 27th crash of Comair flight 5191 in Lexington,
Kentucky. Andrews had been in Kentucky attending a WestCare
board meeting.
At WestCare, Andrews oversaw the Foundation’s substance
abuse and mental health treatment programs and facilities
in Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Puerto Rico and the U.S.
Virgin Islands.
Prior to joining WestCare, Andrews
served as executive director of Catholic Charities, a non-profit
organization that provides a broad range of health care,
social services and affordable housing for low-income persons
in the Tampa Bay area. He served as Catholic Charities’
Executive Director Emeritus.
Before that, Andrews served for 23 years as executive vice
president of Operation PAR, Inc., a substance abuse research
and treatment organization based in Pinellas County, guiding
the initial set-up and long-term development of what has
become one of the largest and most acclaimed substance abuse
agencies in the United States.
“This terrible tragedy took one of the best people
ever to serve WestCare,” said Richard E. Steinberg,
WestCare Foundation president/CEO. “He was one of
the finest, most honorable human beings I have had the pleasure
of knowing and working with. We have lost the best of the
best.”
Andrews was the past Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees
of Catholic Charities USA. He was a member of the Catholic
Health Association’s New Covenant Phase IV national
task force; St. Anthony’s Health Care System’s
Board of Trustees; the Florida Catholic Conference Social
Development Commission and Farmworker Justice Committee;
and the Tampa Bay Academy Charter School. He was also a
board member of the Allegany Franciscan Foundation Fellows
Program and was a founding board member of the Hispanic
Services Council of Hillsborough County.
Andrews was honored in Tampa as 2005’s “Hispanic
Man of the Year” for his public service by the Tampa
Hispanic Heritage, Inc.
Andrews was a life-long resident of Tampa. He was a graduate
of the University of Tampa, and attended the University
of West Florida Graduate School of Psychology.
The WestCare Foundation, founded in 1973, is a tax-exempt,
non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization, providing a wide spectrum
of health and human services in both residential and outpatient
environments, including substance abuse and addiction treatment,
homeless and runaway shelters and behavioral and mental
health programs.
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