Paso Del Norte Health Foundatin CEO retiring
The CEO of the Paso Del Norte Health Foundation is retiring.
Myrna Deckert, who has led the organization for the past eight years, announced her decision on Friday. The board of directors will begin an immediate search for her replacement, but Deckert will continue in her role until a decision is made.
“My husband and I began to talk about maybe its time for us to smell the roses and play a little golf and see our children and our grandchildren a little more, because none of them live here,” Deckert told ABC-7, pointing out she will now split her time between El Paso and Baton Rouge, La. “Even though (retirement is) difficult for me, because I’m a workaholic and I’ve been working my entire life.”
Deckert was named CEO of the Health Foundation is 2007. It’s celebrating its 20th anniversary this year serving El Paso, Hudspeth, Dona Ana and Otero counties and Juarez. It was established in 1995 after the sale of the not-for-profit Providence Memorial Hospital. It’s one of the largest private foundations on the U.S./Mexico boarder.
Over the past decade, the foundation has worked to establish the Paso del Norte Health Information Exchange, the El Paso Behavioral Health Consortium, a Regional Strategic Health Framework and a transformational leadership program for executive regional health leaders called REALIZE.
Its assets exceed $200 million and since its inception it has committed more than $145 million in grants and activities. More than 300 organizations have received funding through more than 1,700 grants.
