Kathy English - Inducted in 2012
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Kathy English joined Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in 1991 as vice president for patient care. Within two years, she was promoted to executive vice president and chief operating officer. During her tenure, Children’s has experienced dramatic growth including the construction and opening of its own freestanding hospital building in 2000 and the more recent completion of the Children’s Specialty Pediatric Center. In 2011, Children’s was ranked for the first time by U.S. News & World Report as a “Best Children’s Hospital” in cardiology and heart surgery, and orthopedics.
English’s emphasis on employee engagement contributed to national and local recognition for Children’s as one of Modern Healthcare’s “Best Places to Work in Health Care” (2008), and as one of the “Best Places to Work in Omaha” (2003, 2011, and 2012).
English shares her business and health care expertise as an international consultant to The Joint Commission Resources/Joint Commission International and also serves on the boards of the Center for Human Nutrition, Ted E. Bear Hollow, March of Dimes, and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. In 2008, the YWCA Omaha named English the business honoree in its Tribute to Women; she was also named the Midlands Business Journal’s “Woman of Distinction.”
English earned her Executive MBA in 1995 from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She received her BS in nursing and her master’s degree in nursing administration from the University of Texas at Arlington.