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 HospitalCourt LeMaistre, FACHE, is the Chief Operating Officer of St. David's Georgetown Hospital. LeMaistre began his management career in the high-tech industry. Since 2003, he has held leadership positions within HCA facilities, and is noted for applying his technological expertise in the health care environment. LeMaistre has managed major construction projects, including a cath lab replacement and facility renovation and expansion, and has developed a broad depth and scope of experience in various aspects of negotiations and business analysis.
Before joining the leadership team at St. David's Georgetown Hospital, LeMaistre was the Vice President of Operations/Chief Staffing Officer for the Summerville Medical Center in Summerville, South Carolina. LeMaistre, a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, received his bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Mathematics from Austin College in Sherman, Texas, and master's degree in Health Care Administration from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.
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 HospitalWendy A. Stuart joined St. David's Georgetown Hospital as Chief Nursing Officer in March, 2009. Prior to joining the hospital, Ms. Stuart served as the Associate Chief Nursing Officer of Adult Patient Care Services at JFK Medical Center in Atlantis, Florida, where she supervised a 52-bed Adult Intensive Care Unit (ICU), as well as 10 inpatient units. She also has clinical leadership experience in pediatric and neonatal care.
Ms. Stuart has a particular interest in developing and implementing educational and customer service programs to enhance clinical expertise, cultivate nursing leadership skills, and increase patient satisfaction.
Ms. Stuart received her Bachelor of Nursing Science degree in Critical Care Nursing from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and earned her Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She has also taught as an adjunct faculty member in the College of Nursing at Florida Atlantic University.