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Sept. 17, 2007
Three Trinity University Health Care Alumni Again Included in Magazine’s
‘100 Most Powerful People’ List
SAN ANTONIO – Three graduates of Trinity University’s nationally recognized Health Care Administration program have been included for the fourth year in a list of the “100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare” by Modern Healthcare magazine. One of the alumni, Wayne Smith, has been listed in all six of the publication’s rankings. Smith is chairman, president, and CEO of Community Health Systems in Franklin, Tenn.
Also included on the 2007 list is Joel Allison, president and CEO of the Baylor Health Care system in Dallas, and Douglas Hawthorne, president and CEO of Texas Health Resources in Arlington.
All three health system executives have been previously ranked by the magazine as one of the nation’s “most powerful people” in their field. Earlier this year, Trinity’s health care curriculum was recognized as one of the top programs in health care management in U.S. News & World Report’s 2008 edition of America’s Best Graduate Schools. Trinity offers two options for obtaining a Master of Science in Health Care Administration.
With a fundraising objective of $3 million, the program currently is participating in The Campaign for Trinity University’s Health Care Administration. The program has been accredited continuously since 1969 by the Commission on Accreditation for Healthcare Management Education, formerly known as the Accrediting Commission on Education for Health Services Administration.
Smith graduated from Auburn University with both bachelor’s and master’s degrees. He later earned his Trinity degree in Health Care Administration and studied at the King’s Fund College of Hospital Administration in London, England. He worked with Humana Inc. for 23 years in various executive positions. He has been a director of the American Association of Health Plans and was the 2003 Chairman of the Federation of America’s Hospitals.
Allison graduated from Baylor University in 1970 and earned his master’s degree from the Trinity program in 1973. He has some 30 years experience in the field, and joined the Baylor Health Care System in 1993. He was named president and CEO in 2000 after serving as Baylor’s senior executive vice president and chief operating officer.
Hawthorne earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration at Trinity in 1969 and his graduate degree in health care administration in 1972. He began his career as a resident at Dallas’ Presbyterian Hospital and joined its management team thereafter. In 1983, he was named president and CEO of Presbyterian Health Care of Dallas. Texas Health Resources, in Arlington, was formed in 1997 when Presbyterian Health Care Resources merged with Harris Methodist Health System, and Hawthorne was named president and CEO of this new entity.
The Modern Healthcare “100 Powerful People” list is headed this year by Sister Carol Keehan, president of Catholic Health Association in St. Louis, followed by former Massachusetts governor and Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney (No. 2), California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (No. 3), and Deborah Peel, founder and chairman of Patient Privacy Rights foundation in Austin (No. 4).
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