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President
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Bob Ellzey, FACHE
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Bob Ellzey, FACHE, serves as president of Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Azle. He succeeded the facility's former leader, Winjie Tang Miao, who moved to a new post as the first president of Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance.
Ellzey joined Texas Health Azle in September 2011 from Mena Regional Health System, a 65-bed comprehensive municipal health system that serves a large area of western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma, where he served as chief executive officer. Before that he was with Laird Memorial Hospital, a 60-bed hospital operated by Community Hospital Corporation in Kilgore, Texas.
While in Arkansas, Ellzey worked to recruit physicians and improve the hospital's quality scores and his health system's ranking among Arkansas hospitals. Among many other accomplishments, he established a hospitalist program, initiated a wound care program, acquired an outpatient rehabilitation center, gained Level IV Trauma Center designation and established an active chaplaincy program.
Ellzey is actively involved with several professional organizations, including having served as vice president of the Arkansas Health Education Forum (ACHE Chapter), a member of the Arkansas Oklahoma Healthcare Consortium Board of Directors, and past president of the Board of Directors of the East Texas Chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives.
Ellzey received an master's degree in hospital administration from the University of Houston-Clear Lake. He holds a bachelor's degree from Baylor University, where he was a member of the Baylor Chamber of Commerce.
Ellzey and his wife, Susan, have been married for three decades and have two grown sons.
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Chief Nursing Officer
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| Valarie Gilbert |
Valarie Gilbert, R.N., is the chief nurse officer at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Azle. In this role, Gilbert is responsible for the strategic, operational and financial performance of all clinical departments at the hospital. Gilbert has been with the hospital since 1999. Under her leadership, the hospital was designated a Level IV trauma center, and the hospital received the Pathway to ExcellenceTM hospital designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center for creating a working environment where nurses can flourish. Also under her leadership, Texas Health Azle received the Texas Medical Foundation Health Care Quality Improvement Award.
Gilbert has been a part of the Texas Health Resources' family since 1978 when she joined Harris Hospital (known today as Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth) as a registered nurse. She achieved numerous career advancements at the hospital and went on to serve in a variety of roles at entities throughout Texas Health. Gilbert earned a bachelor's of science in nursing from West Texas State University in Canyon, Texas.
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Chief Medical Officer
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| Joseph Prosser, M.D. |
Joseph Prosser, M.D., M.B.A., C.P.E., FACPE, serves as vice president and chief medical officer for Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Azle, Fort Worth, Cleburne and Specialty Hospital.
At Texas Health Azle, Prosser provides quality and outcomes support, and works with hospital and physician staff leadership to promote clinical excellence and safety in patient care. He also works with Texas Health leadership around the system to advance clinical initiatives.
Under his leadership, Texas Health Azle has been named a Level IV Trauma Center, has received a quality care financial reward from the Healthcare Quality Incentive Demonstration and has been named a QUEST Top Performing Hospital.
Prior to serving as chief quality officer, Prosser served as the medical director of quality at Texas Health Fort Worth.
He previously served as medical director/assistant administrator at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, a member of the Hospital Sisters Health System in Belleville, Ill. Prosser earned his medical degree from St. Louis University School of Medicine and completed his internal medicine residency at St. Jon's Mercy Medical Center in St. Louis, Mo. He went on to graduate with a master's of business administration from Webster University.
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