Cornell Scott-Hill Health Corporation Board Announces Selection of Jamesina Henderson
as Chief Executive Officer
April 28th, 2009
Following an extensive national search, Cornell Scott-Hill Health Corporation's Board of Directors has announced the selection of Jamesina E. "Jai" Henderson as its new chief executive officer. Henderson joins Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center from T.H.E. Clinic, a pioneering community health center committed to underserved persons in south Los Angeles, where she served as chief excutive officer.
Throughout her multifaceted career, Jai has been an insightful and agile leader, collaborator and consensus builder. Her strengths include the ability to balance a results-oriented focus with strong leader skills that allow her to coach and counsel her management teams to achieve organizational excellence. While at T.H.E., she led a financial and operational turnaround of the center while also focusing on improving quality of care, elevating it to be an employer of choice and fostering a culture of compassionate accountability among its workforce. She took a leadership role with external stakeholders by serving on the governing bodies of several collaborative organizations, most notably San-West, the first multidiscplinary collaborative serving the primary care, mental health and housing needs of homeless and dually diagnosed persons in south Los Angeles.
In addition to Henderson's experience as T.H.E.'s chief executive, her health care experience includes: developing stroke outreach programming in association with one of the nation's leading neurosurgeons and a world-renowned health care system; serving as a key executive for one of the first prepaid health plans to serve poor and minority communities in Los Angeles; and lecturing students at Charles R. Drew Post Graduate Medical School, UCLA School of Public Health and Howard University Medical School.
In addition to forging creative community partnerships within healthcare, she has also excelled at developing collaborations in other areas. Notable among her achievements are: leading a strategic partnership study that led to the development of LAUP, an innovative county-wide early education network and funding organization; and significant experience in business development efforts, including serving as executive director for the state of California's Business Revitalization Center.
"We are very excited to have Jai join our organization," said Andrea Jackson-Brooks, chairperson of Cornell Scott-Hill Health Corporation Board of Directors. "She brings enormous wisdom, insight and passion for community health and development that will carry Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center to new levels of excellence as a model for community health centers nationwide."
Henderson received her B.A. degree in sociology/psychology from Howard University in Washington, DC, and her M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania.
Hill Health, now celebrating its 40th anniversary, was headed for most of its history by the late Cornell Scott, who died in August, 2008. One of the largest community health centers in the state, Hill Health serves 29,000 patients, employs more than 500 staff in 18 locations and operates on a $38 million annual budget.