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Methodist Hospital Welcomes Ryan Simpson As Chief Executive Officer

Methodist Hospital has appointed Ryan Simpson as Chief Executive Officer. Simpson brings with him more than twenty years of hospital leadership experience. He joins Methodist Healthcare after serving as Chief Executive Officer at The Medical Center of Aurora (TMCA) and Spalding Rehabilitation Hospital located within the Healthcare Corporation of America (HCA) Continental Division for the past four years.

During his tenure as CEO, Simpson made noticeable strides in physician and employee satisfaction, improving physician engagement scores by 25 percentage points, placing TMCA in the 90th percentile as a place to practice medicine. He improved employee engagement scores to 76 percent, representing an eight-percentage point increase. He made great progress advancing quality indicators, reducing hospital-acquired conditions to place TMCA as one of the nation’s Top 100 Hospitals by IBM Watson.

Through Simpson’s leadership, he led unprecedented growth in several service lines, including the integration of Colorado Permanente Medical Group (Kaiser Permanente) into TMCA, seeing a 50 percent increase in same-store admissions. He was also instrumental in the development of a market-wide heart surgery group, resulting in 50 percent surgical growth and 53 percent cardiac cath procedure growth over three years. Additionally, Simpson oversaw the planning and opening of Centennial Hospital, an $80 million inpatient campus expansion to Centennial Medical Plaza, and a 40-bed expansion to the Behavioral Health and Wellness Center for women’s inpatient behavioral health and expanded geriatric psychiatry, representing $10 million in capital investments.

Simpson holds a Master of Science in Healthcare Administration and a Master of Business Administration from The University of Alabama at Birmingham, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Birmingham Southern College.

METHODIST HOSPITAL | NORTHEAST WELCOMES NEW CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

Methodist Hospital | Northeast has appointed Felicia De La Garza as their new Chief Operating Officer. De La Garza previously served as the Assistant Chief Operating Officer (ACOO) at Methodist Hospital. During her tenure, she helped to spearhead the lung transplant development program and played a pivotal role in the creation of Methodist Hospital’s first vascular program and the Diabetic Foot and Ankle Institute (DFAI).

Prior to her role as ACOO, De La Garza served as Vice President of Operations at Methodist Hospital, where she focused on hospital operations, programmatic development, physician recruitment, strategic planning, quality outcomes, and service line growth initiatives. Within that role, she was influential in launching Methodist Hospital’s first Texas Medical Board-approved Transplant and Circulatory Support Fellowship Program. Additionally, De La Garza helped lead the hospital’s heart transplant growth strategies and recruitment, resulting in record transplant volume for 2021 and 2022.

Before joining Methodist Healthcare, she directed Transplant Services at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center and spent 10 years in the Houston healthcare industry. De La Garza received her Master of Science in Nursing, Leadership Management, and Education and her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Lubbock Christian University.

METHODIST HOSPITAL | LANDMARK APPOINTS ANGELA SAIF AS CHIEF NURSING OFFICER

Angela (Angie) Saif has been appointed as Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for Methodist Hospital | Landmark. Angie has served as the Associate Chief Nursing Officer for Methodist Hospital since early 2021. As ACNO, Angie oversaw over 23 departments and 900 full-time employees, including inpatient progressive care, telemetry, medical-surgical units as well as dialysis, apheresis, staffing, nursing administration, and rapid response.

During her time with Methodist Hospital, Angie has made great improvements in enhancing employee engagement and strengthening operations. Through her leadership, in-patient experience maintained above the 72 percentile for five consecutive quarters. She was instrumental in restructuring vascular access team staffing and workflow to encourage decreased central line utilization while effectively decreasing the use of contract labor by 90 percent, which resulted in an annual projected savings of $650,000. Angie also helped implement alternate nursing care models utilizing LVNs in the inpatient setting to bridge the gap in the nursing workforce in the inpatient telemetry units.

Angie has nearly twenty years of diverse hospital leadership experience and immense compassion for people, patients, and a dedication to the nursing profession. Angie has a track record of innovative problem-solving and the ability to conceptualize and implement new programs to meet organizational growth objectives.

Angie has a Doctorate of Nursing Practice in Healthcare System Administration from the University of Tennessee. She is a Certified Healthcare Operations Professional (DNV-GL) as well as a Trauma Certified Registered Nurse (TCRN). Angie is also a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives as well as the American Organization of Nurse Leaders.

As CNO over Methodist Hospital | Landmark, Angie will lead patient care for specialized surgical services including bariatrics, breast reconstruction, orthopedics, gynecology, urology, colorectal, and general surgery.