hospital-ceo
(4)Kathy Wallace
Kathy Wallace is the CEO of LifeCare Hospital of Plano, part of LifeCare Hospitals of North Texas. A registered nurse with roughly 35 years in healthcare and about 18 of them at LifeCare, she rose through clinical and executive roles into the corner office. She is one of an all-female group of CEOs, all trained in critical care, who lead LifeCare's North Texas long-term acute care hospitals. Her focus is on early-intervention and mobilization protocols that shorten recovery times for the most fragile, critically ill patients while cutting readmissions.
Kevin Klockenga
Kevin Klockenga is President and Chief Executive Officer of Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Santa Clarita, California, a 357-bed not-for-profit community hospital and Level II trauma center. He took the corner office in March 2023, following a decade running Providence's Northern California region and a long arc through hospital administration that began in central Illinois and ran through Washington University in St. Louis. He sits on the board of the Hospital Association of Southern California and is known inside the building for an old-school work ethic, a vintage Corvette he tinkers with, and a stated mission to leave a culture behind that outlives him.
Misty Jones
Misty R. Jones is the president and CEO of Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley, a Pleasanton-based hospital affiliated with Stanford Medicine. A nurse-turned-operator with an MSN and MBA, she stepped in on June 9, 2025, after two decades running academic medical centers in the Midwest, and is now steering a 66,000-square-foot east wing expansion that will more than double the emergency department.
William Gilbert
William Gilbert is a senior healthcare executive associated with Regional Medical Center of San Jose, the East San Jose hospital long operated within HCA Healthcare's Good Samaritan Health System. His LinkedIn profile lists CEO-level leadership at the medical center, an institution known for its Level II trauma program, comprehensive stroke designation, STEMI receiving status and Leapfrog top-quartile patient safety recognition.