MURRAY – In this morning’s special called meeting, the Murray-Calloway County Hospital Board of Trustees unanimously voted to offer the CEO position to Tonda Haigler.
“We feel that all these candidates were very qualified, and (we had) a strong group to choose from,” Search Committee Chair Amy Futrell told the board this morning. “After the four site visits, we, as a board, read every comment, whether they were verbal or in writing. We studied those. We met and discussed those comments and what we, as a board, are looking for in our next CEO, as far as qualities and characteristics.
“The process and decision has been prayed over. It’s been discussed. It’s been deliberated very thoroughly and carefully. Saying all of that, as the chair of the Search Committee, I respectfully submit Tonda Haigler to be voted on as the next CEO of the Murray-Calloway County Hospital; and if this vote is a success, then I recommend we offer her a contract immediately.”
Haigler currently lives in Montgomery, Alabama, with her husband and two sons. Since 2019, she has served as system vice president of ambulatory services for Baptist Health of Central Alabama, a health system which she describes in her resume as a “non-profit network of three facilities” with affiliations to the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
For the 12 years prior, she rose through the ranks at the for-profit system Community Health Systems, as an administrative specialist, assistant chief executive officer and, ultimately, chief operating officer.
Haigler graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1998 with a bachelor’s degree in exercise science and earned a master’s degree in public health/healthcare administration in 2001. In 2006, she received a second master’s degree in business administration from Mississippi State University.
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