Dr. Charles Hankins will join CHRISTUS Health as the President and Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio effective January 8, 2018. Dr. Hankins will serve as Senior Vice President with responsibility for enhancing and growing pediatric services in coordination with the Chief Executive Officers of the U.S. and Latin American health care ministries of CHRISTUS Health System.
“Dr. Hankins will be a dynamic addition to our leadership team as we near completion of our $150 million construction project that has transformed our downtown campus into San Antonio’s first and only free-standing hospital for children and new mothers. He’s bringing a wealth of knowledge to our community and to our ministry,” said Dominic Dominguez, Chief Executive Officer, CHRISTUS Health South Texas.
“I’m excited to start this next chapter in my professional career by joining CHRISTUS. I’m also thrilled to become part of the San Antonio community with its rich heritage and culture – especially as the city kicks off its tricentennial celebration in 2018,” said Dr. Hankins. Dr. Hankins will maintain his academic appointment as an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine.
As President and CMO, Dr. Hankins will be part of a newly implemented dyad leadership model at The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio in which he will serve side by side with an administrative leader to guide the Hospital and its network of ambulatory care services in the community. Mr. Dominguez will serve in the administrative role on an interim basis while a nationwide search takes place to fill the position. The dyad structure has been successfully deployed in other CHRISTUS Health regions and proven to be effective in ensuring that strategy and decision-making are performed with physician and clinical guidance, as well as administrative and operational insight.
Dr. Hankins will have a matrix reporting relationship working closely with Mr. Dominguez in his leadership role for The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio and with Jeff Puckett, Chief Operating Officer for CHRISTUS Health, on the CHRISTUS Health network in the U.S. and Latin America.
Dr. Hankins is a highly regarded clinician and leader with more than 30 years of experience as a practicing neonatologist, clinical faculty member, and leader in some of the country’s
most prestigious medical and academic institutions. His experience includes 14 years as Associate Professor of Pediatrics with Baylor College of Medicine in Houston where he has held two inaugural CMO roles at Texas Children’s Hospital – West Campus and Texas Children’s Hospital – The Woodlands. Dr. Hankins has also served as Medical Director of Texas Children’s Hospital Community Initiative’s Program to assist adult hospitals in accommodating pediatric needs.
Dr. Hankins’ educational credentials include an undergraduate degree in education from The University of Tennessee in Knoxville and a medical degree from the University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences in Memphis. He completed his residency in pediatrics at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio and a clinical fellowship in neonatal-perinatal medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. He also completed a Masters of Business Administration at the University of Tennessee.
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About The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio
The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio is the first freestanding hospital in San Antonio solely dedicated to the care of children. Located in the heart of downtown San Antonio, The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio is owned by CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System. Baylor College of Medicine, one of the top medical schools in the nation, is the academic partner of The Children’s Hospital with 170 pediatric subspecialists affiliated with Baylor. In addition, community physicians in private practice remain a valuable partner in the care of children in our community. We are a healthcare ministry that works to continually meet the needs of the community to extend the healing ministry of Jesus Christ, following the values and mission of our sponsoring congregations; Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word of Houston and San Antonio, as well as our newest sponsoring congregation, the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth. For additional information on The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio, visit www.chofsa.org or for more information on CHRISTUS Santa Rosa, visit www.christussantarosa.org. Find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ChildrensHospSA and follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ChildrensHospSA.
About Baylor College of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine (www.bcm.edu) in Houston is recognized as a premier academic health sciences center and is known for excellence in education, research and patient care. It is the only private medical school in the greater southwest and is ranked 20th among medical schools for research and 9th for primary care by U.S. News & World Report. Baylor is listed 19th among all U.S. medical schools for National Institutes of Health funding and number one in Texas. Located in the Texas Medical Center, Baylor has affiliations with seven teaching hospitals and jointly owns and operates Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, part of CHI St. Luke’s Health. Currently, Baylor trains more than 3,000 medical, graduate, nurse anesthesia, physician assistant and orthotics students, as well as residents and post-doctoral fellows. Follow Baylor College of Medicine on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/BaylorCollegeOfMedicine) and Twitter (http://twitter.com/BCMHouston).
