Mr. McWhorter serves as senior executive vice president and CFO for Texas Health Resources, the largest nonprofit health system in North Texas. The system serves more than 1.7 million patients annually across 16 counties encompassing 8 million people. The system provides care at more than 420 access points, including 29 hospital locations, and comprises 6,800 employed and affiliated physicians and 30,000 employees. He provides financial oversight across accounting, financial risk, investments and treasury services, insurance services, revenue cycle management, real estate operations and supply chain management. With Texas Health and its predecessor organizations for 36 years and CFO since December 2018, Mr. McWhorter has been instrumental in implementing the system’s board-approved financial sustainability policy, which has helped maintain a strong balance sheet, top-tier credit rating and ample liquidity through financial headwinds. In 2020, he led the issuance of $300 million of system taxable revenue bonds, achieving the lowest all-in cost of debt on a 30-year taxable bond issue by an “AA” rated health system on record in the industry. In 2025, he executed another bond offering of more than $900 million, the largest in the system’s history. In 2024 Texas Health provided more than $1.18 billion in charity care and community benefit, five times the state requirement. Mr. McWhorter serves on boards and committees of several joint ventures, including Southwestern Health Resources in Farmers Branch,Texas, and chairs the finance and audit committee of his alma mater, Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Becker's Recognition
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2026 Winner

