Amanda Thrash, FACHE, has served as president of Texas Health Allen since July 2022.

Amanda has primary oversight of daily operations and responsibility for the 88-bed hospital’s annual operating plan.

Thrash previously served as vice president, professional and support services, at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano. Her tenure with Texas Health extends much further, though. She started at Texas Health Dallas as an administrative resident in 2009, moving to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano in 2010. She became administrator of Texas Health Neighborhood Care & Wellness Prosper in 2016, serving in that role for two years.

Over the span of Amanda’s career, she has focused heavily on market strategy, physician relationships and streamlining hospital operations. Most recently, Amanda has been successful in advancing patient experience, improving perioperative efficiencies, and growing the heart and vascular and women’s service lines.

Amanda is the 2023 recipient of the Dallas/Fort Worth Hospital Council’s Young Healthcare Executive of the Year and was among the 50 Rising Stars Under 40 from Becker’s Hospital Review. She was recognized by Star Local Media as a Woman of Inspiration Class of 2024 for Allen and Fairview, and she was also recognized as a 40 Under 40 honoree by the Dallas Business Journal in June 2024. She recently received the Allen Chamber of Commerce Top 20 under 40 Award for 2025.

In her spare time, Amanda enjoys spending time with her husband of 10 years, Bucky, and their 7-year-old son, Beau, and 2-year-old daughter, Shelby. They love cheering on the TCU Horned Frogs during football season and entertaining friends in their home.

Kari McCord, M.S.N., RNC-OB, C-EFM, NE-BC, serves as the chief nursing officer at Texas Health Allen.

McCord works closely with Amanda Thrash, president, and Robert Schwab, M.D., chief quality and medical officer, to develop and oversee the implementation of policies, procedures and practices to support the provision of safe, quality patient care. She is responsible for the management of nursing practice, nursing education, professional development, nursing research and nursing administration.

She first joined Texas Health Resources as a staff nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas in 2005. She left Texas Health Dallas in 2012 for a job elsewhere and returned to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano in 2019 as director of Women’s, Infants’ and Children’s Services. She was promoted to associate chief nursing officer there in 2021 and moved to her current role at Texas Health Allen in September 2023.

McCord earned an associate degree in nursing from Dallas County Community College, and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing from Grand Canyon University in Phoenix. She is a graduate of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership Fellowship and the SMU Executive Fellowship. She was named a DFW Great 100 Nurse in 2020.

McCord has a son, Cayden, and daughter, Kendall. She enjoys watching Kendall play competitive soccer and traveling with her family.

Robert Schwab, M.D., is chief quality and medical officer for Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Allen. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Virginia and completed emergency medicine residency training at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, as well as a fellowship in Patient Safety.

During his academic career, Dr. Schwab was professor of emergency medicine and medical humanities at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and adjunct associate professor of bioethics and humanities at Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences. He practiced emergency medicine for twenty years before switching to palliative medicine in 2007.

In 2010, he left clinical practice to join Texas Health Resources. Dr. Schwab has a special interest in the role of the humanities in medical education; he has lectured nationally on this subject and continues to lecture about healing as well as health care at the end of life.