Board Governance & Advisory Leadership
Healthcare Governance - Clinical Quality - Strategic Transformation
Board Value
Tammy brings experience as CEO, CNO, consultant, educator, researcher, and healthcare entrepreneur, with expertise in governance, quality oversight, risk management, leadership succession, and healthcare strategy. She offers boards a rare combination: the operational credibility of having run hospitals and health systems, and the clinical depth of a career nurse executive - giving directors and executive teams a grounded, practical voice on quality, safety, and workforce matters that reach the board level.
Board Competencies
• Clinical Governance & Quality Oversight
• Patient Safety & Regulatory Compliance
• Enterprise Risk Management
• Strategic Planning
• Executive Leadership & Succession
• Healthcare Workforce Development
• Healthcare Policy & Change Management
• Joint Commission & CMS Survey Readiness
• Magnet Program Development & Redesignation
Executive Leadership Experience
• International Accreditors for Continuing Education & Training Provider (2023-Present)
• President/CEO, Competency Exchange (2020–Present)
• Assistant Professor and DNP Program Coordinator, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, (2018-2024)
• President/CEO, Clinical Advisory Team, Inc. (2007–Present)
• Director, Center for Clinical Excellence, University Health System - San Antonio, TX (2014–2018)
• President/CEO, Clinical Advisory Team, Inc. (2007–Present)
• Interim Turnaround CEO/Administrator, Kindred - Long Term Acute Care system (2005–2011)
• Interim Turnaround CEO/Administrator, SemperCare - Plano, TX (2004–2005)
• CEO/Administrator, Select Specialty Hospital - Dallas, TX (2001–2004)
• CNO, Clinical Services, Select Specialty Hospital - Dallas, TX (2000–2001)
• Director, Critical Care Services, Texas Health Resources - Dallas, TX (1998–2000)
• Educator, Critical Care Services, Texas Health Resources - Dallas, TX (1997–1998)
• Supervisor, Department of Cardiology, Hendrick Medical Center (1993–1997)
• Staff RN/LVN - Critical Care, Cardiac Cath Lab, Med/Surg, Hendrick Medical Center & Memorial Hospital and Medical Center (1983–1993)
Board & Civic Leadership
• Patient Safety Committee and Infection Control Committee. Community Member for Select Specialty Hospital- Central Pennsylvania Market (2025 – Present)
• President, TexasDNP (2023–2024)
• Planning Committee Chairman, TexasDNP (2022-2024)
• Graduate Faculty Counselor, Sigma Theta Tau – Eta Omicron Chapter (2019-2024)
• Board Member, Food Bank of Golden Crescent (2008–2014) - Vice President (2010–2014)
• Leadership Victoria, Class of 2010
• Board Member, Metrocrest Medical Foundation (2001–2008) - Secretary (2003), Treasurer (2004–2006), President (2007)
• Allocation Committee Chairman, United Way of Abilene, TX (1996)
• Founding Member, Sigma Theta Tau, Omicron Zeta Chapter (1995)
• Testing & Evaluation Committee Member, Abilene Intercollegiate School of Nursing (1988-1997)
Why Tammy on Your Board
Few directors have sat in both the CEO's chair and the CNO's.
Tammy has led hospital operations and clinical practice from the inside, then built a second career advising boards and executive teams on the same issues from a governance vantage point. That dual lens makes her especially effective on committees focused on quality, patient safety, risk, and executive succession.
For Quality committees: she led Magnet redesignation, ANCC accredited nurse residency program, and Joint Commission/CMS survey readiness as Director of the Center for Clinical Excellence at University Health System. For Finance and Audit committees: her operating record includes a hospital turnaround from a census of 50% to an ADC of 80% (CMI 1.0 to 1.3) in three months, plus multi-site fiscal and administrative oversight at Kindred Healthcare. And she has already done the job of a director - as President of the Metrocrest Medical Foundation Board and Vice President of the Food Bank of Golden Crescent Board.