A Message from Valley Regional Medical Center's Leadership Team
Thank you for choosing Valley Regional Medical Center (VRMC) for quality health care in your community. We are an HCA Affiliated Hospital in Brownsville, TX also serving neighbors in Harlingen, San Benito and Port Isabel.
A dynamic team of senior executives, physicians, and business leaders help guide VRMC to provide you and your family with a cost-effective, quality health care system that is close to home. Our Leadership Team also evaluates the current health care services and uses their expert knowledge to make recommendations for developing new services and programs at the hospital.
Meet our hospital CEO and leaders
- Joe Hernandez, Chief Executive Officer
- Rene Hinojosa, Chief Operating Officer
- Daniel Puente, Chief Financial Officer
- Kim Vergara, Chief Nursing Officer
- Luis Martinez, Assistant Chief Nursing Officer
Our Hospital Board of Trustees
- Eric Panzer, MD, Board Chair
- Michael Limas, Board Vice Chair
- Teri Capistran, Board Past Chair
- Andrew Escamilla, MD, Chief of Staf
- Jessica Cuevas
- Daniella Lopez Valdez
- Chang R. Myung, MD
- Nolan E. Perez, MD
- Arturo Rodriguez
- Christopher D. Romero, MD
- Jaime Salazar
- Melissa Tilley, MD
- Dominique Vande Maele, MD
- Kimberly Vergara, CNO
- Joe Hernandez, CEO, Secretary
- Troy Villarreal, President of Gulf Coast Division
Our Medical Executive Committee
- Andrew Escamilla, MD, Chief of Staff
- Edgar Moncada, MD, Vice Chief of Staff
- Asim Zamir, MD, Past Chief of Staff
- Gerardo J. Sanchez, MD, Secretary
- Jaime Gomez, MD, Chief of Medicine
- Oscar Hernandez, MD, Chief of OB/GYN
- Yesroon Patel, MD, Chief of Pediatrics
- William A. Tucker, DO, Chief of Surgery