Michelle L. Robertson is the new President and Chief Executive Officer of the Seton Family of Hospitals, the largest operating division within Ascension’s Seton Healthcare Family, Central Texas’ leading healthcare provider. Almost 8,500 of Seton’s 12,800 associates work in Seton’s hospital division across six counties.
“Michelle brings a breadth of experience, operations depth and strategic thinking to our work of creating a better healthcare system,” said Jesús Garza, Seton Healthcare Family President and CEO and Central Texas Market Executive for Ascension.
“Michelle is a proven leader and a highly valued member of the leadership community of Ascension,” said Patricia Maryland, Dr.PH, President, Healthcare Operations and Chief Operating Officer of Ascension Health, the healthcare delivery arm of Ascension. “Having excelled in many leadership capacities at Seton, she has earned this opportunity to have an even greater impact on our integrated national health ministry as President and CEO of the Seton Family of Hospitals.”
Robertson began her career as a pediatric nurse at Children's Hospital of Austin, which has since been replaced by Seton’s Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas. She has led several Seton initiatives to improve hospital quality and patient case management.
More recently, she was Vice President and CEO of the hospital system’s north group, which consists of Seton Medical Center Williamson in Round Rock, Seton Northwest Hospital in Austin and Seton Highland Lakes Hospital in Burnet.
Robertson earned her Bachelor of Science in nursing from the University of Arizona and a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Colorado.
