CEO Debra Sukin: Expanding St. Luke’s The Woodlands Hospital With Heart

Debra Sukin is the CEO of St. Luke’s The Woodlands (Texas) Hospital and St. Luke’s Lakeside Hospital in Woodlands. She also serves as senior vice president of St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System in Houston. Among her many duties, Ms. Sukin has found time to lead St. Luke’s in growth and expansion with hard-work and a little heart.

Advertisement

As CEO of St. Luke’s The Woodlands, Ms. Sukin oversees multiple healthcare facilities on one campus: Texas Children’s Hospital, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and the Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital.
In 2005, she led the development of the heart program at St. Luke’s The Woodlands that brought the first open-heart surgery to the hospital. The hospital has since received Pathway to Excellence designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center and certifications in chest pain and primary stroke. The hospital has also doubled its bed capacity, and has been named one of the best regional hospitals in Houston.

In addition to serving the St. Luke’s system, Ms. Sukin finds time to serve her community. She is as a member of the Texas Hospital Association Council on Policy Development and actively speaks for South Montgomery County/Woodlands Chamber of Commerce. Ms. Sukin is also a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives. In 2010, she was recognized with the Regent’s Early Careerist Healthcare Executive Award.

More Articles on CEO Profiles:

CEO Dr. Robert Laskowski: Providing More Than Charity Care to Delaware Community

CEO Douglas Arnold: Focuses on Physician Recruitment to Improve Patient Care at Helen Keller Hospital

CEO Delos “Toby” Cosgrove: Leader & Advocate

At Becker's 4th Annual CEO + CFO Roundtable, taking place November 2–5 in Chicago, more than 1,500 hospital and health system executives tackle decisions that determine whether organizations thrive or merely survive: protecting margins under cost pressure, choosing where to grow, renegotiating payer relationships, stabilizing the workforce and proving real ROI on technology. This is where leaders work through them together, face-to-face. Apply for complimentary registration now.

Advertisement

Next Up in Leadership & Management

  • Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital established an affiliation more than 70 years ago in the Texas Medical…

  • Fitch revised Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare Services’ outlook to positive and affirms its “B” rating.  The revised outlook reflects Fitch’s…

  • Brentwood, Tenn.-based Lifepoint Health, a health system owned by private equity firm Apollo Global Management, has largely grown over the…

Advertisement

Comments are closed.