Stephen C Hanson, FACHE
Senior Executive Vice President of System Alignment and Performance
Texas Health Resources, Arlington, TX
Biography
Stephen C. Hanson, senior executive vice president of system alignment and performance for Texas Health Resources since 2007, is an industry veteran with more than 35 years of health care leadership experience. He joined Texas Health as executive vice president of operations in 2005. He oversees the corporate functions of Information Technology Services, Business Development, Strategic and Tactical Planning, and Ambulatory Operations; THR’s management company, Texas Health Partners and the joint venture hospitals managed by Partners; and the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospitals in Dallas, Denton, Plano, Allen, Kaufman, and Winnsboro.
From 1999 until 2005 Hanson served as president and CEO of Appalachian Regional Healthcare in Lexington, Ky., leading the financial and quality turnaround of one of the oldest integrated delivery systems in the country including 1,100 beds and a significant range of physician and other health services in Kentucky and West Virginia. During his tenure, ARH was listed in the top 50 Integrated Health Networks nationally as ranked by Verispan, and ranked as the No. 1 health system in Kentucky and West Virginia.
During the 1990s, Hanson was involved in significant turnarounds in major health systems in the Northeast and the Midwest. He was executive 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.
During the 1980s, Hanson served as Vice President/COO of Schoitz Health Resources in Iowa and president/CEO of the Finley Tri-States Health Group, both in Iowa. During the first decade of his career, Hanson was Assistant Director, Indiana University Hospitals; Director of Planning, Methodist Hospital of Indiana (Indianapolis) and Executive Director of the Northeast Iowa Health Planning Council.
Hanson holds a master of public health degree in health administration from the University of Oklahoma and earned his bachelor of science degree from Iowa State University. He is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Hanson is a member of the board of directors of the United Way of Greater Dallas. He is a member of the American Hospital Association Governing Council on Healthcare Systems and member of the executive committee of the Texas Association of Voluntary Hospitals.