ARLINGTON, Texas, Aug. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Margaret H. Jordan, executive vice president for corporate affairs at Arlington-based Texas Health Resources, is the only Texan among eight new board members recently elected to serve on the American Hospital Association board of trustees.
The board is the policy-making body of the AHA and controls the association’s direction and finances. Jordan’s three-year term begins Jan. 1, 2006.
“This is a high honor for Margaret and for THR,” said Doug Hawthorne, president and CEO of Texas Health Resources. “But more importantly, Margaret will be a great asset to the AHA and our nation’s hospitals. She is passionate about community health and has a track record of bringing business and health care organizations together to improve the health of communities.”
The AHA, which includes nearly 5,000 hospitals, health care systems, networks and other providers of care, is a not-for-profit association of health care provider organizations that are committed to health improvement in their communities.
At THR, Jordan is responsible for community health and benefit, government relations, system diversity initiatives, and the Presbyterian Healthcare and Harris Methodist Health foundations. Additionally, she serves as president of Dallas Medical Resource, a consortium of leaders from business and health care organized to address issues of importance to the entire community.
Jordan earned a master’s degree in public health from the University of California at Berkeley, a bachelor of science degree in nursing from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University School of Business. She also has served on the Texas Hospital Association board, the executive board of the American Public Health Association, and the founding board of the National Black Nurses Association.
In addition to Jordan, the other newly elected AHA board members include John Bluford, president and CEO of Truman Medical Centers in Kansas City; Marilyn Bowcutt, RN, vice president of patient care services at University Health Services in Augusta, Ga.; Vincent Conti, president and CEO of Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine; Richard de Filippi, a trustee at the Cambridge (Mass.) Health Alliance; Dan Harrison, executive vice president of Rush Health Systems in Meridian, Miss.; Gregory Lintjer, president of Elkhart (Ind.) General Health Care System; and Jeffrey Selberg, president and CEO of Exempla Healthcare in Denver.
About Texas Health Resources
Texas Health Resources is one of the largest faith-based, nonprofit health care delivery systems in the United States. The 13-hospital system is the largest in North Texas in terms of patients served and includes Presbyterian Healthcare System, Harris Methodist Hospitals and Arlington Memorial Hospital. For more information about Texas Health Resources, visit http://www.texashealth.org .
Texas Health Resources
CONTACT: Kent Best of Texas Health Resources, +1-817-462-6385
Web site: http://www.texashealth.org/
