Texas

Texas Division

The nurses of the Texas Division are led by Dr. Veronica Martin-Posley, Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive. The Division is committed to excellence, education, and opportunity in its locations throughout Texas. Throughout the last two years and looking forward into the future, the division has and will remain committed to collaboration and to the community.

“The toll of high patient volumes coupled with uncertain outcomes and long hours were some of the greatest challenges we as health care leaders have ever faced, and we succeeded. It’s a testament to the high level of expertise that our nursing team provides every day.”

— Dr. Veronica Martin-Posley, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, Division SVP & Chief Nurse Executive, St. Luke’s Health - Texas Division

Division Locations

East Texas (Memorial)

St. Luke’s Health - Memorial, San Augustine Hospital, San Augustine St. Luke’s Health - Memorial Lufkin Hospital, Lufkin St. Luke’s Health - Memorial Livingston Hospital, Livingston

Houston 610 Market

Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center - Bertner, Houston Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center - McNair, Houston

North Houston

St. Luke’s Health - The Woodlands Hospital, The Woodlands St. Luke’s Health - Lakeside Hospital, The Woodlands St. Luke’s Health - The Vintage Hospital, Houston St. Luke’s Health - Springwoods Village Hospital, Spring

South Houston

St. Luke’s Health - Sugar Land Hospital, Sugar Land St. Luke’s Health - Brazosport Hospital, Lake Jackson St. Luke’s Health - Patients Medical Center, Pasadena

Brazos Valley (St. Joseph Health)

St. Joseph Health Regional Hospital, Bryan St. Joseph Health College Station Hospital, College Station St. Joseph Health Madison Hospital, Madisonville St. Joseph Health Grimes Hospital, Navasota St. Joseph Health Burleson Hospital, Caldwell

New Mexico

CHI St. Joseph’s Children

Dynamic Collaboration Makes It Happen

Texas-style dedication, partnerships, innovative projects, and a legacy of no-fear nursing define a new and more nimble era.

As strong community partners, the Texas Division is committed to providing continued excellence for our nurses, patients, our state and nation. This year, nurses across our division led the way with courage, resiliency and humankindness. We received national recognition for our nursing efforts and developed new strategic partnerships in the midst of pandemic-related challenges.

One example of this exciting work is a new partnership between the University of St. Thomas - Houston (UST-H) and Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center. This collaboration was recently forged with UST-H’s senior BSN nursing students to expose them to critical care clinical skills through the hospital’s elite ICU Transition Program. The program’s goal is to support the acquisition of nursing knowledge and skills for senior students to effectively prepare them for the transition to professional nursing practice in critical care nursing.

Also in 2021, volunteers from St. Joseph’s Heath, including nurses from St. Joseph’s Health Regional Hospital, worked together to administer over 100,000 COVID-19 vaccines in Brazos County. Meanwhile, nurses throughout our Texas markets lived our value of Compassion while providing comfort and care to patients and their families.

Above, left to right: The Healthcare Heroes Campaign is celebrated by St. Luke’s Health – The Springwoods Village Hospital and St. Luke’s Health – San Augustine Hospital; the nursing staff at CHI St. Luke’s Health – The Vintage Hospital.

Courage in Action

Superstar St. Luke’s Health Nurses across the Texas division were featured in an Emmy Award-Winning PBS Series. When ICU beds were filled with COVID-19 patients during the initial surge, rapid response teams throughout the health system went into overdrive. The urgency of their work was captured in a riveting episode of TESTED, a 12-part video series produced by Houston Public Media in partnership with St. Luke’s Health. The series captured intense images of critical care nurses showing no fear or hesitation while caring for highly infectious patients.

Noteworthy Numbers

+35%

of the Texas Division staff are nurses

7.8 M

Patients Served

271

Points of Care

2001

Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is the oldest Magnet-designated facility in Texas

“The beauty of working with our dedicated and well-trained nurses is that we are incredibly nimble at responding quickly to crises.”

— Dr. T. Douglas Lawson, CEO, St. Luke’s Health and CommonSpirit SVP of Operations

In 2021, Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center received its fifth magnet designation, an honor given to hospitals by the American Nursing Credentialing Center for Excellence in the delivery of care and the practice environment for nurses.

A Collaborative Effort

The planning to make the elite ICU Transition Program opportunity available to UST’s senior nursing students was the collaborative work of Dr. Veronica Martin DNP, RN, Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive for St. Luke’s Health - Texas Division of CommonSpirit; Candice Herman, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, St. Luke’s Health - Texas Division of CommonSpirit, Director for Magnet Programs and PSON Faculty; Michael Sullivan, DBe, HEC-C, FACHE, Associate Professor, PSON; Karen O’Brien, Ph.D., APRN, ACNP-BC, Associate Professor; and Poldi Tschirch, Ph.D., RN, CNE, Dean and Professor.

As the Texas Division looks forward, we believe that investing in our nurses is key to proactively addressing the U.S. nursing shortage. By providing relevant professional development and new opportunities throughout the career-span of our nurses, we are confident that we can make the Texas Division and CommonSpirit a preferred workplace where our nurses can thrive for years to come. •