Trident Medical Center in Charleston names new CEO

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Trident Health has a new leader.

The Lowcountry health system has named Jeff Wilson as its new president. He will also serve as CEO of Trident Medical Center.

Trident Health employs nearly 3,000 and has a medical staff of nearly 800 physicians, according to a news release. Next year, Trident Medical Center will celebrate its 50th anniversary.

Wilson joins Trident Health from Methodist Hospital Stone Oak in San Antonio, Texas, where he served as CEO for the past two-and-a-half years, according to the release. In his time there, he led more than $34M in Operating Rooms and Cath Lab expansion projects and a $78 million tower expansion to improve the facility and enhance hospital services.

“Jeff is skilled in creating and communicating a vision for growth and supporting the teams who’ll execute it,” said Hugh Tappan, president, HCA Healthcare South Atlantic Division, in the release.  “It’ll be invaluable as Trident Health continues to add specialties and expand access to care like the health system did last year with the opening of Live Oak Mental Health & Wellness and James Island Emergency and will do in other neighborhoods in the future.”

Wilson joined HCA Healthcare in 2005, where he’s held a variety of leadership positions in several Richmond, Virginia, area hospitals, as well as serving as the vice president of Orthopedics and Spine in HCA’s Capital Division, according to the release. Before his most recent role, he served as CEO of the Methodist Hospital Specialty and Transplant, recognized as the #1 live donor kidney transplant program in the U.S.

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Trident Health’s acute care hospitals were recently awarded their second consecutive America’s 250 Best Hospitals award from Healthgrades and second consecutive “A” grade by Leapfrog, the release stated.  The health system includes:

• Trident Medical Center (321 beds)
• Summerville Medical Center (124 beds)
• Live Oak Mental Health & Wellness (60 beds)
• Brighton Park Emergency
• Centre Pointe Emergency
• James Island Emergency
• Moncks Corner Medical Center

And, Trident Health has announced plans to build a 50-bed hospital on Johns Island.

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Wilson earned a bachelor’s degree from The University of Kansas; a master’s degree from Virginia Commonwealth University; and a Certificate of Management, Public Health/Business from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Wilson currently serves on the board of directors and is chair of the Governance Committee for the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute.