Tennessee Regent Awards: 2021-2022
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Exceptional Service Award: Parker D. Harris, FACHE
Parker D. Harris, FACHE is Chief Executive Officer at Baptist Memorial Hospital – Tipton in Atoka, Tennessee. Mr. Harris has faithfully served on the Board of Directors for the MidSouth Healthcare Executives (MHCE) for many years and is always the first to volunteer to do anything. Parker served as President in 2020 and again in 2021. His service and leadership during this time were crucial to keeping the chapter going. The difficulties the chapter was experiencing led to him being even more active in his role as Immediate Past President, which is not usually the case. Further, Parker resigned from positions in other organizations that are important to him to allow more time to serve MHCE. Parker embodies the core values of ACHE and his leadership makes you want to be a better leader.
I presented the Regent’s Exceptional Service Award to Parker D. Harris, FACHE in recognition of these exceptional accomplishments during the extremely difficult challenges presented in the leadership of the MidSouth Healthcare Executives chapter and his vigorous pursuit and embodiment of the ACHE values and mission to advance healthcare leadership excellence in western Tennessee.
Rural Healthcare Executive Award: Andrew D. McDonald, Sr., FACHE
Andrew D. McDonald, Sr., FACHE is Shareholder-In Charge, Healthcare Consulting with LBMC, PC in Brentwood, Tennessee. Mr. McDonald served on the Board of Directors and as past President of ACHE of Middle Tennessee (2015) and in this role helped garner and revitalize the chapter’s infrastructure to achieve quality chapter status following a number of years of challenges. The continuing achievements of the revitalized Middle Tennessee Chapter came as a chain of chapter Presidents built on the work of one another from 2012 to present. Andrew’s experiences prepared him to take on an assignment from Regent Dr. Trent Beach, FACHE; leading a Chapter Support Focus Group, charged with assisting the Tennessee chapters of the East Tennessee Healthcare Executive Affiliation and the MidSouth Healthcare Executives to overcome challenges with waning participation and infrastructure for members and leaders. Andrew led this effort with other Regents Advisory Council (RAC) members and the Presidents of both chapters. Advice, resources, time, a recruiting effort, election assistance, and otherwise ‘extra hands’ were offered to the Presidents in revitalizing both chapters. Both chapters are now repositioned again for continued success and to offer a chapter voice for healthcare leaders in these combined rural and urban healthcare settings.
In recognition of his contributions to organize aid to assist chapter Presidents to revitalize their chapters (East Tennessee Healthcare Executive Affiliation and the MidSouth Healthcare Executives) and maintain the voice of rural healthcare leaders, I presented the Rural Healthcare Executive Award to Andrew D. McDonald, Sr., FACHE.
Excellence in Diversity Award: Joseph Webb, DSc, FACHE
Joseph Webb, DSc., FACHE is Chief Executive Officer of Nashville General Hospital. Dr. Webb is actively involved in the Nashville Healthcare community, and served as a panelist on Equity of Care at the 2021 Tennessee Hospital Association’s Annual Meeting. In this role, Dr. Webb advocated for changes key to progress in recognizing and addressing key determinants of social inequity and helped bring discussion helping to foster a growing awareness and call to act. Recognized as a thought leader in this area, Dr. Webb’s ideas have spread not only in Nashville and Tennessee, but to healthcare leader forums across the country.
In recognition of his leadership in advancing diversity and justice, I presented the Regent’s Excellence in Diversity Award to Dr. Joseph Webb, FACHE.
Senior Executive Award: Timothy A. Slocum, FACHE
Timothy A. Slocum, FACHE is President, Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Mr. Slocum has served in leadership roles in a number of ACHE chapters during his career and from these experiences offered his time and service on the Regents Advisory Council (RAC) for the Senior Executive Focus Group. Faced with waning senior leader participation within the ACHE affiliated chapters in Tennessee, Regent Trent Beach, PharmD, FACHE charged this focus group of the RAC with conducting a needs analysis with senior leaders and to help organize chapter and/or cross-chapter efforts to meet these needs with the intent to improve senior leader engagement. Tim immediately went into action, organizing the RAC Focus Group and pursuing this charge. Through these efforts, chapters are laying foundational programming that reaches the interests of our senior leader members; helping encourage chapters to host senior leader educational and networking opportunities; and leading to increased discussions with other healthcare leader organizations such as the Nashville Healthcare Council and Healthcare Financial Management Association to help align interests.
For his work leading the Regents Advisory Council Senior Leader Focus Group and its achievements, I presented the Regent’s Senior Executive Award to Timothy A. Slocum, FACHE. This award represents the exceptional work by all of the council members on the Senior Leaders Focus Group.
Physician Leader Award: Clay W. Runnels, MD, FACHE
Clay W. Runnels, MD, FACHE is Executive Vice President and Chief Physician Executive at Ballad Health, in Gray, Tennessee. Dr. Runnells has played an instrumental volunteer role in the continuing success of the cross-chapter production of the Physicians Leadership Academy (PLA). The Tennessee RAC PLA is co-produced through the efforts of an incredible team of educators and practitioners from multiple ACHE-Affiliated chapters in Tennessee hosted through the Regent’s Advisory Council. During this year, Dr. Runnels accepted lead for the PLA continuation taking the baton from past Regent award recipients, Dr. Angelique Cohen, FACHE, and Anna Pannier, FACHE, who remain instrumentally involved in the Academy. His ideas for physician leaders and their role in shaping the future healthcare models is visionary and deeply aligns with ACHE values.
I recognize Clay W. Runnels, MD, FACHE with the ACHE Regent’s Physician Leader Award for his major contributions to our Physicians Leadership Academy supporting the ACHE goal to be a trusted partner to foster engagement, support career development, and personalize the ACHE experience for physician members across Tennessee.
Please join me in demonstrating appreciation to these award recipients and those others instrumental in these accomplishments.
Ever your servant in ACHE,
Trent
Trent A. Beach, PharmD, FACHE
Regent for Tennessee
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