Chief Executive Officer
St. David's Georgetown HospitalHugh Brown has served as Chief Executive Officer of St. David's Georgetown Hospital since February 2007. Mr. Brown is currently a member of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce board and the Veteran’s of Foreign Wars and American Legion posts in Georgetown. He is also a member of Main Street Baptists Church in Georgetown where he teaches a weekly adult Bible study.
Mr. Brown came to St. David's Georgetown Hospital from Grand Strand Regional Medical Center in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. He joined Grand Strand Regional in 1992, where he held numerous leadership positions including Chief Operating Officer and Chief Development Officer. Grand Strand Regional Medical Center is a 220-bed tertiary referral medical center owned and operated by HCA.
Mr. Brown earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under a U.S. Navy ROTC scholarship. He went on to earn a master’s degree in Business Administration from Winthrop University. After college, Mr. Brown served as a U.S. Navy supply officer on a fast-attack nuclear-powered submarine and earned a Navy Achievement Medal and an Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal.
Chief Operating Officer
St. David’s Georgetown HospitalRuben Castro serves as Chief Operating Officer for St. David’s Georgetown Hospital.
Castro has more than 23 years of healthcare experience that includes administration, nursing, clinical laboratory and information technology. He previously served as associate administrator and ethics and compliance officer at North Hills Hospital, an HCA affiliate in North Richland Hills, Texas. Prior to this, Castro served in several other capacities at North Hills Hospital, including director of information technology and services, rehabilitation unit nurse and systems analyst nurse. Early in his career, Castro also worked as a licensed practical nurse and anesthesia technician at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Hurst-Euless-Bedford in Bedford, Texas.
Castro earned his Bachelor of Science degree in information technology as well as his Master of Business Administration degree from University of Phoenix. He also served in the U.S. Army Reserve for eight years.
Chief Medical Officer
St. David’s Georgetown HospitalJim Donovan, M.D., has been the Chief Medical Officer for St. David’s Georgetown Hospital since August, 2009. In this role, he acts as the senior liaison between hospital management and physicians on the medical staff. Prior to assuming this position, Dr. Donovan had served in various hospital leadership roles, including both Chief of Medical Staff and as a longstanding member of the Board of Trustees.
Dr. Donovan is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, Hawaii Academy of Family Physicians, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine and the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He is certified with and a diplomat in the American Board of Family Practice and holds medical licenses in the States of Texas and Hawaii.
Dr. Donovan holds a doctor of medicine degree from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from The University of Texas at Austin. He completed his internship and residency in family medicine at John Peter Smith Hospital in Ft. Worth.
Chief Nursing Officer
St. David's Georgetown HospitalCynthia Nicholas was named Chief Nursing Officer of St. David’s Georgetown Hospital in December 2012. Nicholas has more than 20 years of healthcare experience and has served in direct patient care leadership positions with responsibility for nursing units, respiratory therapy, quality, education and risk management. She joined St. David’s HealthCare as acute care director at St. David’s Georgetown Hospital in 2011, providing oversight for the medical/surgical units, intensive care unit and cardiopulmonary department.
Previously, Nicholas served as the administrative director of critical care services at Valley Regional Medical Center in Brownsville, Texas. During her time at Valley Regional Medical Center, she provided operational and clinical leadership, as well as administrative direction for the emergency department, intensive care unit (ICU), cardiac catheter lab and trauma services. Nicholas also served as director of quality improvement and risk management at Valley Regional Medical Center before being named administrative director.
Prior to her role at Valley Regional Medical Center, Nicholas served as corporate director for the office of the chief nursing officer at Baylor Healthcare System in Dallas, Texas; the director of organization development and education at Piedmont Health System in Atlanta, Ga.; the director for the Center for Education, Development and Research at Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Fla.; as well as an ICU nurse, flight nurse and nursing school instructor.
Nicholas earned her Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Florida International University in Miami, and she went on to earn her Master of Science degree in nursing from the University of Miami. In 2012, she was one of only six HCA (Hospital Corporation of America) nurses nationwide selected to participate in HCA’s Executive Accelerated Market Program (AMP), designed to prepare high-performing employees for senior leadership roles.
Nicholas is a member of the Texas Organization of Nurse Executives. She has also served as a master trainer for the TeamStepps program, which is designed to improve patient safety within an organization.