Stuart Hill • Vice President Treasurer | Unity Health | Searcy
Stuart Hill always liked math.
“What do you do with math to make a living?” said the Fort Worth, Texas, native. “I guess you become a professor or you go into business.”
He went into business.
After taking night classes, Hill graduated in 1983 from Memphis State College (now the University of Memphis) with an accounting degree. While in school, he worked in the business office at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis.
In 1988, he joined White County Medical Center of Searcy, which later became Unity Health, and he’s had the same title, vice president treasurer, for almost 30 years.
Unity Health has three hospitals and 20 clinics with about 2,300 employees in Arkansas. Its revenue for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 was estimated at $250 million, which is up from $240 million from the previous year, Hill said.
In 2016, Unity Health was named a Community Value Five-Star hospital by the hospital financial consulting firm Cleverley & Associates of Worthington, Ohio, for the value the health system brings to the community, Hill said.
Hill, 61, said his management philosophy is to “listen to my folks and to incorporate and collaborate. … I think I’m a good team player.”
Hill serves on the board of the nonprofit Miracle League of Searcy, which recently formed and has a goal of building a field within the next two years. Miracle League provides a barrier-free baseball field so children with mental and physical disabilities can play the game.
Hill said the challenge of being the chief financial officer at Unity Health is what drives him. “And it’s the ministry of the job, being able to help your fellow man,” Hill said.
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