Ms. Emerson joined the Texas Health Resources team from Austin (Texas) Surgical Hospital, where she had served as CEO and CNO since 2003. In that position, she oversaw the renovation and opening of a new hospital and provided oversight for all nursing and non-nursing operations, led strategic business development activities and service line development. She began her career in healthcare at Port Saint Lucie (Fla.) Medical Center on an orthopedic floor. She quickly moved into the telemetry unit and cardiac cath recovery unit, then found her niche in nursing as a heart transplant and open heart recovery nurse. With a passion for teaching and precepting new nurses, she became the director of education for The Heart Hospital of Austin. In that role, she assisted Medcath in opening five heart hospitals across the country. She then moved into executive leadership, opening an orthopedic hospital for Ortho-Neuro corporation.
