Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare – 2010
Henry "Hank" Hernandez
CEO, Las Palmas Medical Center
Henry "Hank " Hernandez started his career as a staff nurse in the Army, and is now CEO of 261-bed Las Palmas Medical Center in El Paso, Texas, an HCA facility. Las Palmas has expanded since he took the helm in 1998, adding a $40 million emergency room and intensive-care unit, and operating the only kidney transplant center in the area. Hernandez, 57, retired from the Army in 1994. He is a past chairman of the National Forum of Latino Healthcare Executives.