Key Leaders

One of HealthTrust's biggest assets is our leadership. Although every member of the HealthTrust team is vital to our success and growth, our organization is led by a distinguished group of professionals who are experts in the fields of finance, materials management, and the healthcare industry. Through their combined experience and expertise, our leaders constitute an important key to HealthTrust's success as an industry-leading GPO meeting the healthcare needs of our member facilities while ensuring that your patients always remain our first priority.

Jim Fitzgerald
President / Chief Executive Officer

With over 25 years of health care related operations experience, HealthTrust Purchasing Group President and CEO, Jim Fitzgerald, oversees HealthTrust’s financial and operational functions and manages the contracting for suppliers, pharmaceuticals, and capital equipment totaling over $15 billion annually.  During his career, Jim has managed financial operations, financial auditing, accounts receivables, health information systems, and supply chain operations. He received his bachelor’s degree from David Lipscomb University and is a member of the Federation of American Hospitals and a board member of the Tennessee Minority Supplier Development Council.
 

Ed Jones
Chief Operating Officer, Contracting and Acquisition Management

With over 20 years health care experience, Ed oversees all clinical operations and national/regional agreements for medical equipment, medical/surgical, physician preference, and pharmacy supplies, as well as non-medical supplies, information systems and telecommunications for HealthTrust Purchasing Group. Ed was formerly vice president of HCA’s Eastern Group where he was responsible for all facets of supply chain activities for approximately 100 acute care facilities including $1.6 billion in annualized spend, over 800 employees, and 6 regional supply chain service centers. As division director of materials management for HCA’s Richmond Division, he developed and implemented one of HCA’s first materials management re-engineering projects for the five-hospital system. Ed earned his Bachelor’s Degree from Virginia Commonwealth University.

John Paul
CFO/Vice President, Financial Operations Support

John was named CFO of HealthTrust Purchasing Group in November of 1999 and has responsibility for all accounting-related activities for HealthTrust, financial review of all HealthTrust contracts, and managing the company’s pricing due diligence activities. Previously, he was a Senior Auditor for Ernst & Young before joining HCA as Manager of Financial Operations for the company’s supply chain organization. John graduated from David Lipscomb University where he received a Bachelor’s Degree in accounting. He is a licensed CPA and a member of the Tennessee Society of CPAs, as well as a board member of Agape.

Doug Swanson
Vice President, Sales & Marketing

Doug joined HealthTrust in 2006 with over 20 years experience in executive management, marketing and business development. As vice president of Marketing and Member Services, Doug is responsible for growing and serving the HealthTrust membership. Doug is also responsible for the development of CoreTrust, which extends HealthTrust contracts for in-direct spend categories to large-scale, non-healthcare companies. Prior to joining HealthTrust, Doug spent 18 years with Bergen Brunswig Corporation, eventually serving as president of its Health Systems Division. Doug earned his Bachelor’s Degree at the University of Michigan.
 

Shelly Workman
Vice President, Clinical Operations Support

A 20+ year health care industry veteran, Shelly oversees HealthTrust’s clinical operations department. Shelly and her team of clinical professionals support all clinical functions of HealthTrust Purchasing Group. These areas of support include advisory boards, medical device support, new technology tracking, along with Clinical Education and implementation support. Each of these teams actively support and interact with all HealthTrust departments to maintain clinical expertise and ongoing professional growth to promote credibility to our members. With a clinical laboratory background and 13 years experience at the facility level, Shelly last served as the Director of Laboratory Services at both Plantation General Hospital and Westside Regional Medical Center in South Florida. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan.

Bill Francis
Vice President, Operations

Bill brings 30 years of management and financial experience to his position at HealthTrust. An employee of HCA since 1994, his previous roles have included hospital CFO, assistant vice president of internal audit, and vice president of finance for government programs. He was also instrumental in the growth of the company’s CFO Development Program. He joined HealthTrust in 2001 and is responsible for operations, contract administration and communication, information technology, and item/vendor standardization. Bill earned his Bachelor of Science in Accounting from David Lipscomb University and is a CPA (inactive). He is a member of the American Institute of CPA’s, the Tennessee Society of CPA’s, and is an advisory board member of Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Middle Tennessee.
 

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