Baylor All Saints Medical Center at Fort Worth

Steve R. Newton is president of Baylor All Saints Medical Centers and Baylor Medical Center at Southwest Fort Worth, where he is actively involved in developing health care services and facilities to support the residents in the rapidly growing Tarrant County.

Baylor All Saints serves more than 100,000 people annually through its two hospitals, Baylor All Saints Medical Center at Fort Worth and Baylor Medical Center at Southwest Fort Worth, and through its primary care physician centers and rehabilitation and fitness center. In December 2005, Baylor All Saints Medical Center at Fort Worth announced plans to build the Andrews Women's Hospital, a $75 million, 170,000-square-foot, four-story facility scheduled for completion in 2008.

Before joining Baylor in 2004, Newton served in increasingly responsible positions within the health care industry. After serving as assistant administrator of Research Psychiatric Center, a 100-bed psychiatric hospital in Kansas City, in 1991 he was promoted to chief executive officer of that facility. In 1996 he was named chief operating officer of Health Midwest's 545-bed Research Medical Center in Kansas City and in1998 was named its president and chief executive officer. He became president of the six-hospital Health Midwest Central Region in 2001. When Health Midwest changed ownership in 2003, he continued in his role as chief executive officer of Research Medical Center.

Newton, who is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives, serves on the boards of the Dallas/Fort Worth Hospital Council, Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, Fort Worth Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Carter BloodCare, American Cancer Society, Fort Worth South and Healthy Tarrant County Collaboration. He also serves on advisory boards for the University of Texas at Arlington/Fort Worth, LifeGift Organ Bank, Texas Christian University Leadership Center, and Tarrant County Council on Alcoholism and Drug Addiction.

A native of New Haven, Conn., Newton earned a bachelor's degree cum laude from Williams College and a Master of Public Health degree from Yale University School of Medicine.