Tim Hill became the chief operating officer of Southern Administrative Services on Aug. 1. SAS uses the Green House Cottage model of nursing home care. In Hill’s new role he will be responsible for all aspects of elder care operations, quality and safety programs, census development and talent management.
“We will look for every opportunity to create a system where we share best practices among client facilities and leverage our position in the market,” Hill said in a press release.
Hill has more than 27 years of health care finance and operational management experience. He had served as COO of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Health System since 2017, after fulfilling several roles there since 2011. Over the years, he has had several senior positions for a number of health care organizations, including CEO of Arkansas Heart Hospital in Little Rock and North Arkansas Regional Medical Center in Harrison. The Arkansas Hospital Association named him Administrator of the Year in 1996, when he was running Southwest Hospital in Little Rock.
Hill earned a bachelor’s degree in business, finance and accounting from St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.
Dr. Erica Horta has been hired as a neuro-immunologist at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock.
Horta specializes in multiple sclerosis and brain and spine tumors. She also serves as an assistant professor in the department of neurology in the UAMS College of Medicine.
Horta earned her medical degree and completed a residency and a clinical fellowship at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Horta also completed a fellowship in research at the Neuro-immunology Laboratory at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and a clinical fellowship in neuro-oncology at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. She also served a residency in neurology at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
Dr. Kim Jackson has been hired as a physician at the Little Rock Allergy & Asthma Clinic.
Jackson earned her medical degree at the American University of the Carribean and completed residency for internal medicine at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. She has been published within the fields of allergy, immunology, and internal medicine, and has made oral presentations at local and national professional conferences.
Nicholas B. Wilson has been hired as a new surgeon at Martin Orthopedics in Little Rock. Wilson earned his medical degree from St. Louis University School of Medicine and completed an orthopedic residency at Mount Carmel Health System in Columbus, Ohio. Wilson has also led a number of research programs including a biomechanics program at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus and a therapy program for the Cardinals Reminiscence League at St. Louis University.
Dr. Matt Peckat has joined Baptist Health Family Clinic in Bryant.
Peckat received his medical degree from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and completed his residency training through the UAMS Southwest Family Medicine Residency Program in Texarkana.
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