Melissa Winter, D.N.P., R.N., NEA-BC, serves as chief nursing officer at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton, having assumed the position in July 2024.

Winter works closely with Timothy Harris, M.D., chief quality and medical officer, and hospital president Jeff Reecer to develop and oversee the implementation of policies, procedures and practices to support the provision of safe, high-quality patient care. She is responsible for the management of nursing practice, nursing education, professional development, nursing research and nursing administration.

Winter previously worked at Baylor Scott & White Health, where she served as regional chief nursing officer for Baylor Scott & White Grapevine, All Saints and Irving. She served that system for 18 years in a number of nursing leadership roles.

Winter earned an associate degree in nursing from Methodist School of Nursing in Lubbock, Texas, and a bachelor’s degree in nursing and master’s degree in nursing administration from West Texas A&M University in Canyon. She also earned a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from the University of Pittsburgh.

She is an advisory member of the Tuman Breast Cancer Foundation and serves on the Collin College Nursing Advisory Council. She also has served as an assistant clinical professor at Texas Woman’s University and an adjunct clinical professor at the Baylor University Louise Herrington School of Nursing. She has been named a DFW Great 100 Nurse and has received the DFW Hospital Council’s Young Executive of the Year Award and the D Magazine Nursing Excellence Award.

Winter and her husband have a son who attends the University of Arkansas, a high school aged daughter and two fur-baby rescues – a dog and a cat. She enjoys spending time with family and friends, working out, watching her daughter play volleyball and teaching within the children’s ministry at her church.