Dr. Grubb Halford has served as Covenant Health’s first CMIO since 2016 and assumed the additional role of chief medical officer in 2023, now providing medical leadership across Covenant’s delivery system while serving as the primary liaison to more than 1,500 affiliated physicians. Under her CMIO leadership, Covenant Health and Covenant Medical Group earned level 9 College of Healthcare Information Management Executives “Digital Health Most Wired” designations in both acute and ambulatory categories in 2024 and 2025. Dr. Halford led the implementation of Covenant’s integrated EHR, overseeing tele-ICU services at all nine acute care hospitals and expanding the clinical informatics leadership team to sustain ongoing optimization. She co-leads the continuing medical education program, co-developed the Methodist Family Medicine Residency Program and helped open a family medicine clinic expanding primary care access in the region. Board certified in both internal medicine and clinical informatics, she was honored by the YWCA Knoxville and the Tennessee Valley for excellence in science, health and technology.
