Texas Health Dallas
Virginia Rose-Harris serves an Officer for Texas Health Resources and the Administrator of The Margot Perot Center for Women’s and Infants at Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas Hospital and is responsible for the strategic development and operations of the service line. In addition, Virginia heads up the community outreach initiatives forging relationships with community partners for Texas Health Dallas with an ultimate outcome of improving the health of the people in the communities Texas Health Resources serves. Most recently, Virginia led the organization in the development of a strategic partnership with Children’s Health and UT Southwestern resulting in pediatric specialty service offerings as well as fully integrated and coordinated care for newborns and the neonatal patient population. The Margot Perot Center has achieved the distinction by Dallas Child as being the Best Place to Have a Baby for three years running.
Virginia is a graduate Fellow with the Texas Hospital Association and is a Leadership Dallas alum. She was formerly with HCA, Inc. out of Nashville Tennessee from 1990 – 2010 serving as Vice President and Strategic Development Officer and Chief Diversity Officer at Medical City Dallas Hospital, the flagship hospital for the system’s 166 hospital nationwide. She also held the role of Ethics and Compliance Officer during her tenure as well as Vice President for Human Resources. In 2002, Virginia successfully opened the first and largest 24/7 Childcare Center in a hospital in the nation on the Medical City Campus.
Virginia has been recognized by the National Diversity Council as one of Texas’ Most Powerful and Influential Women and by the Dallas Business Journal for Women in Business Awards as a Change Maker for her significant contributions and achievements on the business front.
Virginia holds an MBA from Dallas Baptist University and is a Fellow with the American College of Healthcare Executives. She has been invited to speak on topics such as successful workplace engagement, patient experience initiatives, diversity, leadership and business operations and strategy in several venues including the North Dallas Chamber, the Texas Diversity Council National Conference, Southern Methodist University Roundtable, Dallas North Chamber of Commerce, Texas Diversity Leadership Conference, HCA, the Society for Healthcare Marketing and Strategy Development and The Gallup Organization. Virginia has also consulted for hospitals across the nation in the areas of leadership, operations and employee engagement.
Virginia serves as a board member for the North Dallas Chamber of Commerce, Dallas Women’s Foundation, the Texas Diversity Council, Texas Health Women’s Specialty Surgery Center, Southwest Diagnostic Imaging Center and the Texas Health Surgery Center of Dallas and has served on the Executive Leadership Team of the American Heart Association Go Red Initiative for the last five years as well as committees supporting the March of Dimes. Virginia also works with the Vickery Meadow area “brain trust” of non-profits.
AFFILIATIONS AND VOLUNTEERING:
World Affairs Council, Society for Healthcare Marketing and Strategy, American College of Healthcare Executives, American Heart Association – Go Red Co-Chair-2012/2013, March of Dimes, Genesis Women’s Shelter, Good Shepherd Catholic Church, Destination Imagination, Vickery Meadows Learning Center, Carroll Independent School District.
