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Promotions and Movement Across the System
METHODIST HOSPITAL WELCOMES NEW CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER - RACHEL GOLDSMITH
Methodist Hospital announced the appointment of Rachel Goldsmith as the new chief operating officer (COO) for Methodist Hospital and Methodist Children’s Hospital. Goldsmith returns to Methodist Hospital after serving as COO for Methodist Hospital Northeast. Her strengths include both organizational/ service line growth as well as employee engagement and relationshipbuilding. During her tenure at Methodist Hospital Northeast, Goldsmith had oversight of the daily operations of all procedural, ancillary, and support areas and staff of over 300 full-time employees. She led over $40 million construction projects, including a 30-bed inpatient unit, a hybrid operating suite, an electrophysiology lab, and the vertical addition of 3 parking garage levels, among others. Goldsmith was instrumental in developing a lung nodule program, spearheaded the design and construction of an outpatient surgery department, and implemented the opening of a new free-standing emergency room and plans for a new medical office building (MOB). Having formerly served as Vice President of Operations, Business Development and Strategy for Methodist Hospital and Methodist Children’s Hospital, Goldsmith advanced the adult and pediatric cardiovascular service line through programmatic development, operational oversight, physician recruitment as well as quality and regulatory management. Rachel began her new executive leadership role November 1.
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Methodist Hospital | Atascosa recently welcomed Tonja Thigpen, MSN, CCNS, CCRN-K, NEA-BC, as their new Chief Nursing Officer. Before joining Methodist Hospital | Atascosa, Tonja served as the Assistant Chief Nursing Officer at Reston Hospital Center in Reston, Virginia. Having held several leadership roles over various departments throughout her career. In 2018 and 2019, she received the Outstanding Leader Award, and she even led her Emergency Department to obtain a high-performing team award in 2018. Tonja holds a BSN from Virginia Commonwealth University and an MSN from Liberty University. She is a Doctorate candidate at the Virginia University of Lynchburg and is on track to graduate in December of 2021. Tonja has a proven track record of fostering a culture of ownership through accountability, respect, innovation, shared governance, and she previously served in the United States Army for nine years. Under Tonja’s leadership, Methodist Hospital | Atascosa will continue to provide exceptional care to the community while growing to meet the needs of the patients and families in Atascosa County.
MARC STRODE TAKES ON NEW ROLE TO ENHANCE RURAL MARKETS
Marc Strode, former CEO of Methodist Hospital | Stone Oak, has accepted the position of Senior Vice President for Methodist Healthcare’s rural markets. Strode loves Texas, he loves South Texas and West Texas, and he loves rural Texas. This job represents the opportunity for him to lead not just a single hospital campus, as important as that may be, but to impact dozens of hospitals and thousands of patients over the hundreds of square miles that we serve. Strode had been CEO at Methodist Hospital | Stone Oak for nearly seven years, and has overseen more milestones and accomplishments than can be possibly listed. Among the highlights would be campus investments of over $200M in expansion and improvements, a doubling of our daily patient census, and strong earnings growth. The key to Strode’s leadership has been an undying passion to create a patient and staff culture characterized by leadership involvement to drive satisfaction, and MHSO has been frequently recognized for high performance in areas of staff, physician, and patient engagement when measured against company and industry benchmarks. He also led the hospital to a grade of “A” on Leapfrog Patient Safety scores, oversaw the acquisition of a dedicated rehab facility, and has helped spur impressive growth in key service lines like neurosurgery, NICU, OB, Trauma, and others. Strode is a seasoned hospital leader with a track record of success, and he lives our Mission of Serving Humanity to Honor God.
PROMOTIONS AND MOVEMENT ACROSS THE SYSTEM
METHODIST HOSPITAL | SPECIALTY & TRANSPLANT WELCOMES NEW CEO KEVIN SCOGGIN
It is our pleasure to announce Kevin J. Scoggin, MHA as the newest Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Methodist Hospital | Specialty and Transplant. Prior to this position, Kevin held the Chief Operating Officer position for Methodist Hospital and Methodist Children’s Hospital, since 2019. His experience in various leadership positions throughout HCA has served him well in preparing him for the position of CEO. Kevin has assumed various leadership roles such as COO at St. David’s South Austin Medical Center, COO at Summerville Medical Center near Charleston, South Carolina; Associate COO at Kingwood Medical Center near Houston, Texas; and Administrative Resident & Assistant Administrator at Oklahoma University Medical Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. During his tenure at the Methodist Hospital campus, Kevin was the executive lead for recruitment and planning to successfully launch the new Methodist Hospital Burn and Reconstructive Center, and also the Methodist Hospital Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit that opened in June 2020. Recently, he led planning efforts to establish the first Methodistemployed neurosurgical group. Kevin and his wife, Sarah, have two beautiful children. Emma, who is 9 years old and Parker who is 7 years old. Away from work, he serves as a senior student advisor for multiple Trinity healthcare administration graduate students. Kevin’s many successes and vast experience will serve our staff, patients, physicians, and community, well as he takes on this next leadership opportunity.
METHODIST HOSPITAL | STONE OAK WELCOMES NEW CEO - JEFF WILSON
Jeff Wilson has accepted the position of Chief Executive Officer at Methodist Hospital | Stone Oak. No stranger to Methodist Healthcare, Wilson most recently served as the Chief Executive Officer for Methodist Hospital | Specialty and Transplant and has previously served as Chief Operating Officer at Methodist Hospital | Metropolitan. Wilson’s career has primarily been dedicated to health care, gaining experience working for health-related government agencies and leading a non-profit partnership with the mission of finding collaborative solutions to the state of Virginia’s community health concerns. He expanded his experience by starting a career at HCA sixteen years ago as an Assistant Administrator of Business Development and Marketing for John Randolph Medical Center in Virginia. Wilson worked his way up the ranks and left Virginia to come to San Antonio in 2011 to take the Chief Operating Officer position at Methodist Hospital | Metropolitan. In 2016, Wilson was selected as Chief Executive Officer at Methodist Hospital | Specialty and Transplant where he has proven to be a true servant leader who motivates his staff and physicians to achieve positive outcomes. Over the last five years, he has successfully led his team in improving patient quality and safety by significantly reducing hospitalacquired infections, falls and mortality rates. Wilson’s leadership also led to a dramatic increase (58%) in physician satisfaction scores and increased inpatient satisfaction scores, maintaining them in the top quartile for the past two and a half years in a row. Under his tenure, the hospital transplant programs have achieved the #1 Living donor kidney transplant program in the United States and the #1 in liver transplant outcomes over three years in the United States.
