2016 Panelist: Linda Singler Holyfield
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Linda Singler Holyfield, RN, MSN, is the president and CEO of two companies: P&S Surgical Hospital and Speciality
Management Services of Ouachita, LLC. She has more than 30 years of experience in
healthcare leadership and has devoted much of that time creating healthcare opportunities
in northeast Louisiana.
Linda spent the first 15 years of her career developing and managing numerous critical
care services. During that time, she designed and opened four adult ICUs, a PICU,
and telemetry units; she also started an open-heart program and developed an emergency
department.
She then led the establishment of a community health center, a community clinic for
the underserved, the Northeast Louisiana Cancer Institute, and P&S Surgical Hospital.
Under her leadership, P&S Surgical Hospital has grown from a small ambulatory surgery
center that performed approximately 3,500 cases annually, to a thriving surgical hospital
that performs approximately 10,000 cases each year.
Linda also serves as president and CEO of Specialty Management Services of Ouachita,
a healthcare management & consulting company.
She works locally and nationally to improve healthcare and healthcare systems. Linda
led the development of a statewide health improvement plan, Louisiana Turning Point
Initiative, which was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson and W. K. Kellogg Foundations.
In addition, she served as a member of Governor Kathleen Blanco’s Health Care Reform
Task Force and Governor Bobby Jindal’s Health Care Transition Committee. She was also
a member the national Catholic Health Association (Washington, DC) Task Force on the
Uninsured.
She is a member of the Council for a Better Louisiana, the Children’s Coalition, American
College of Healthcare Executives, Louisiana Hospital Association, and the Physician’s
Hospital Association. She currently serves on the Louisiana Public Health Institute,
the University Health Board of Trustees, and the ÃÛ½ÛÖ±²¥ Foundation Board of Trustees.
She is past president/board chair for the United Way of Northeast Louisiana, the Monroe
Chamber of Commerce, and the Wellspring.
She has served as adjunct nursing faculty for ÃÛ½ÛÖ±²¥, Louisiana Tech University, and
Grambling State University. In recognition of her efforts to improve her community,
she and her husband Joe received the Rambin/Silverstein Award by the Monroe Chamber
of Commerce.
Linda received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Louisiana Monroe
and a Master of Nursing Administration (with a healthcare administration minor) from
Northwestern State University. She then completed a Healthier Communities Fellowship
sponsored by the HealthCare Forum in San Francisco.
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