Matt Maxfield, FACHE, chief executive officer of Brownwood Regional Medical Center in Brownwood, has been elected to the Texas Hospital Association’s 2011 Board of Trustees. Maxfield, who served a previous term on the THA board, takes office Jan. 1 for a three-year term. He also will serve as a member of the THA Executive Committee for a one-year term.
Maxfield has more than two decades of health care experience. Prior to his current position, he served as associate executive director of operations for Scott and White Memorial Hospital in Temple. In addition, he served as chief executive officer of Coryell Memorial Hospital in Gatesville, as well as Burleson Memorial Hospital in Caldwell.
In 2009, Texas Governor Rick Perry appointed Maxfield to the Texas Workforce Investment Council for a six-year term. Maxfield also serves on the HOSPAC Board of Directors, is past chairman of THA’s Division 7A, and was a member of the Council on Policy Development, among other committee assignments. A fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, he is past president of the Texas Rural Health Association. In 1998, he was awarded the ACHE Early Health Care Career Executive Regents Award.
Maxfield earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Texas Tech University in Lubbock and a master’s degree in business administration with emphasis in health services management from the University of Dallas.
About the Texas Hospital Association
Founded in 1930, the Texas Hospital Association is the leadership organization and principal advocate for the state’s hospitals and health care systems. Based in Austin, THA enhances its members’ abilities to improve accessibility, quality and cost-effectiveness of health care for all Texans. One of the largest hospital associations in the country, THA represents more than 85 percent of the state’s acute-care hospitals and health care systems, which employ some 365,000 health care professionals statewide.
