Stephen C. Hanson, FACHE, senior executive vice president for system growth and integration, is an industry veteran with more than 30 years of health care leadership experience. He joined Texas Health as executive vice president of operations in 2005. He is currently responsible for advancing plans to expand Texas Health’s market area reach and scope of relationships. Hanson oversees support functions working together to continuously identify and act upon the current and future needs of Texas Health’s communities and stakeholders. Hanson’s concentration is to build integrated platforms of business processes, information systems and technology, to improve collaboration across the disciplines of Texas Health Resources and advance the growth of the Texas Health system in providing a comprehensive range of services, from prevention to palliative care. .
From 1999 until 2005 Hanson served as president and CEO of Appalachian Regional Healthcare in Lexington, Ky., a multi-hospital system with more than 1,100 beds in Kentucky and West Virginia. During his tenure, ARH was listed in the top 50 Integrated Health Networks as ranked by Verispan, and ranked as the No. 1 health system in Kentucky and West Virginia.
Prior to that, heserved asexecutive vice president and chief operating officer of Catholic Health Partners in Chicago. He also served as EVP and COO of Millard Fillmore Health System in Buffalo, N.Y., and as CEO of the system’s teaching hospital, Gates Circle Hospital.
Hanson served in senior leadership positions for community hospitals with Finley Tri-States Health Group and Schoitz Health Resources in Iowa. During the first decade of his career, Hanson held management positions with Indiana University Hospitals, Methodist Hospital of Indiana (Indianapolis) and Northeast Iowa Health Planning Council.
Hanson holds amaster ofpublichealth degree in health administration from the University of Oklahoma and earned his bachelor ofscience degree from Iowa State University.He is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Hanson has served as a member of the board of directors of the Health Industry Council of North Texas and the United Way of Greater Dallas. He is a member of the American Hospital Association Council on Healthcare Systems and member of the executive committee of the Texas Association of Voluntary Hospitals.