New President Joins Baylor Grapevine

Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine is pleased to announce that T. Douglas Lawson has been named president of the 233-bed hospital. Mr. Lawson, his wife, Jennifer, and their 2-year-old son moved to Grapevine this past summer, after relocating from Huntington, W.Va., where he had been senior vice president and COO of Cabell Huntington Hospital (CHH), a 322-bed not-for-profit teaching hospital and regional referral center.

“My family and I are happy to return to Texas and to be part of the Baylor Health Care System,” says Lawson, who received his bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University and his master’s in health care administration from Trinity University in San Antonio.

A fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and a member of the Medical Group Management Association, Lawson is originally from Tahoka, Texas. He has more than 15 years of increasing responsibility in the health care administrative field.

While at CHH, Mr. Lawson was responsible for all ancillary, clinical and core hospital operations. He also oversaw the development of a comprehensive cancer center and an $80 million, 110-bed patient tower and emergency department expansion.

Prior to his position at CHH, he was president and CEO of The Cancer Institute, part of the Saint Luke’s Health System in Kansas City, Mo., and before that, vice president and COO of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Network in Fort Worth. Earlier in his career, he served as senior administrator at Northeast Louisiana Cancer Institute in Monroe, La., and at Scott and White Memorial Hospital and Clinic in Temple, Texas.