Leadership
Denten Park, Market Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Northwest Health
Denten is an accomplished healthcare leader with more than 20 years of executive management experience at hospitals, nursing homes and rehabilitation centers in Arizona, Wyoming and Utah. Prior to joining Northwest Health, Denten served as CEO of MountainView Regional Medical Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Park earned his master’s degree in business administration from New Mexico State University and his bachelor’s degree in business management and social business from Utah State University.
Community involvement and making an impact on youth is important to Park. He was a founding member of The Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine as well as the president of the Las Cruces Public Schools Foundation. He was also the chairman of the Greater Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce and a former board member of the Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico. Additionally, he is a youth basketball coach and referee, a volunteer youth educator, and an Eagle Scout Board of Review member for the Boy Scouts of America.
Lisa Martin, Market Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Northwest Health
Lisa has more than 25 years of healthcare leadership experience, most recently serving as chief financial officer at University Medical Center in New Orleans, Louisiana and previously in key leadership financial roles with other agencies.
Lisa earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky. She is a member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
Kim Arnold, Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), Northwest Medical Center - Bentonville
Kim relocated to Northwest Arkansas from Woodward, OK, with her family. She has more than 21 years of nursing experience, with the last 5 years as the CNO at another facility.
Kim earned her Master of Business Administration in healthcare from Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, OK, and her Bachelor of Science in nursing from University of Oklahoma in Norman, OK.
Michael Breault, Chief Financial Officer at Northwest Medical Center - Bentonville
Michael has more than 20 years of hospital financial management experience. Prior to joining Northwest Health, he served as the assistant CFO at Cedar Park Regional Medical Center near Austin, TX. Michael has an MBA from the University of St. Thomas (MN) and a BBA from the University of Michigan.
Amy Forrest, R.N., CCO, Compliance/Privacy Officer, Northwest Health
Amy currently serves as vice president of compliance and privacy for Northwest Health and is a certified compliance professional. Graduating magna cum laude from Middle Tennessee State University in nursing, Amy has over 30 years hospital experience, 20 of these in management positions. She has received state and national awards for her contributions to healthcare education, has been published by the National League of Nursing and the American Hospital Association and is named as Who’s Who in Professional Nursing. Amy joined Northwest Health in 1991 and has served as VP with administrative duties of education, risk, quality/patient safety, health information management, plant operations, medical staff/professional services, case management and pastoral care and as director of Human Resources.
Prior to coming to Northwest Health, Amy had varied healthcare experience including chief nursing Officer (CNO) of a psychiatric facility, CNO of Long Term Care facility, community leadership consultant and trainer and director of cardiac/pulmonary rehabilitation, as certified nurse epidemiologist/consultant to Dialysis, Inc. and cardiac intensive care and emergency nursing. Amy served as a department operations coordinator (DOC) of ethics & compliance for Triad Hospitals, Inc from 2003-2007. She has been compliance officer for Northwest Health since 1997 and privacy/security Officer since 2003. Amy lives in Rogers with her husband Michael and has four children.
Charles Hall, Assistant Chief Executive Officer, Northwest Medical Center - Springdale
Charles joined Northwest Health from College Station Medical Center where he served as ACNO. He also served as director of emergency services at Plaza Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas.
Charles earned his Bachelor of Science in nursing (BSN) in 2002 from Washington State University in Pullman, WA and his master’s in business administration (MBA) in 2008 from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. In addition to serving in several ED leadership positions in his career, Charles was a Commissioned Naval Officer and Hospital Corpsman in the United States Navy from 1994 to 2010.
Patrick Kerrwood, CEO, Siloam Springs Regional Hospital and Northwest Health Physicians' Specialty Hospital
Patrick has more than 10 years of hospital experience. Most recently, he served as the assistant CEO of Northern Louisiana Medical Center, a 159-bed critical hospital in Ruston, LA.
Patrick earned a Bachelor of Science in management from the University of Phoenix and a Master of Business Administration from Louisiana State University at Shreveport, LA.
Karen LaBonte, Market Chief Nursing Officer, Northwest Health
Karen has over 35 years of nursing experience in labor and delivery, surgery, quality and administration. Prior to coming to Northwest Health, she served as the CNO and director of quality at a facility in Maine. Karen earned her Bachelor of Science at the University of Maine Fort Kent and her Master of Science in nursing leadership at Benedictine University.
Juli McWhorter, R.N., Chief Operating Officer/Chief Nursing Officer, Northwest Medical Center - Willow Creek Women's Hospital
Juli has over 20 years of nursing experience in critical care, cardiac stepdown, cardiac rehabilitation and flight nursing. She has served in various roles in education, director of critical care services and chief quality officer for Northwest Health and assistant CNO at Willow Creek Women's Hospital. Juli has been with Northwest Health for 25 years. She earned her Bachelor of Science in nursing from Sullivan University.
Dr. James A. Tanner, Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Tanner joined Northwest Health from Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Florida, where he served as senior vice president of physician services. Prior to that role, Dr. Tanner spent five years with Catholic Health Initiatives in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he served as chief medical officer and vice president of physician management practice. Preceding his transition into medical leadership roles, Dr. Tanner practiced medicine for 27 years as an OB/GYN.
As Northwest Health’s chief medical officer, Dr. Tanner serves as a key member of the senior leadership team. He is responsible for medical affairs and providing administration and the medical staff with knowledge, experience and leadership from a medical management perspective.
Dr. Tanner earned his medical degree from University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock, Arkansas. He then completed his OB/GYN residency also at UAMS. In addition to his medical education, he has a master’s of business administration from University of Arkansas in Little Rock, Arkansas.