Contributed photo / Rhonda Adams ScottThe former chief operating officer of one of Georgia’s biggest hospitals has been named to a comparable position at CHI Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga.
Rhonda Adams Scott, a registered nurse who earned her doctorate in nursing while working for 22 years in the health care industry, succeeds Anthony Houston as the new market chief operating officer and president of CHI Memorial Hospital Chattanooga. Houston was promoted to president of CHI Saint Joseph Health in Lexington, Kentucky in April.
Scott previously served as chief operating officer of Grady Health Systems in Atlanta, Georgia, a Level 1 trauma center with 953 licensed beds, 7,200 employees and more than $1 billion in revenues. Under her leadership, Grady Health Systems received national recognition for clinical care and patient satisfaction, which resulted in Grady receiving the prestigious Press-Ganey Success Story Award.
In her new role, Scott will oversee quality, safety, and the patient experience at Chattanooga’s second biggest hospital system and will serve in the No. 2 position at CHI Memorial under CHI Chattanooga market CEO Janelle Reilly. Scott is returning to her native Chattanooga and the hospital where she and her husband of 35 years, Thomas, were both born.
Reilly praised Scott’s background in clinical care, finance, facility planning, operations and physician relations with the medical staffs from Emory University School of Medicine and Morehouse School of Medicine.