CHI St. Vincent names senior VP, CFO
CHI St. Vincent announced that it has named Shawn Barnett as its senior vice president and chief financial officer.
Barnett has an extensive background in health care administration, working for both for-profit and nonprofit health care systems. He most recently was president and chief operating officer of CHI St. Luke’s Health-Memorial in Lufkin, Texas. Before that, he was regional CFO for CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System in San Antonio, and he has served as regional CFO for CHRISTUS St. Michael’s Health System in Texarkana, Texas.
A Jonesboro native, he was controller for what was then Methodist Hospital in Jonesboro from
1988-1995 and was CFO of that hospital, then called Regional Medical
Center of NEA, from 1995-1999. He also served as CFO at Triad’s Northwest Health System in Springdale and at Woodland Heights Medical Center in Lufkin.
Barnett has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Arkansas State University, and he earned an MBA with an emphasis in health care management from Regis University in Denver.
Barnett lives in Little Rock and has three adult sons.
CHI St. Vincent, founded in
1888, is the largest integrated and community-based physician organization in Arkansas — a system with over 1 million patient visits per year, serving patients from all 75 counties in Arkansas. CHI St. Vincent Infirmary, an acute-care facility, licensed for 615 beds, is located in Little Rock and is ranked the “best hospital” in Arkansas by U. S. News and World Report and is the first hospital in Arkansas to earn Magnet recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs is an acute-care facility licensed for 282 beds. Other CHI St. Vincent hospitals include CHI St. Vincent North, licensed for
69 beds, in Sherwood; CHI St. Vincent Morrilton, a critical access hospital in Morrilton, licensed for 25 beds; and CHI St. Vincent West, an outpatient campus in west Little Rock. The system includes a network of 300 primary care and specialty physicians, a home health agency, a joint venture inpatient rehabilitation facility, and affiliations with more than 1,000 physicians.