Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital CEO Heath Rushing Recipient of Houston Business Journal’s Prestigious 40 Under 40 Award - Kingwood

Published: Oct 01, 2015, 11:00am

Rushing, 38, has focused on creating a family-work-community balance that has allowed him to greatly impact all three areas.

Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital Senior Vice President and CEO Heath Rushing has been named a recipient of the Houston Business Journal’s prestigious 40 Under 40 Award.

The award annually recognizes 40 of the greater Houston area’s best up-and-coming professionals under the age of 40. Honorees have to be nominated and are chosen by judges based on leadership, overcoming challenges and community involvement. There were more than 400 nominees for the award this year, according to the HBJ.

“This is a tremendous honor and it is very humbling to be listed among many talented people doing great things for the greater Houston area,” Rushing said. “My family, friends, co-workers past and present and the community I live in have all shaped who I am and inspire me to do more every day.”

Rushing, 38, has focused on creating a family-work-community balance that has allowed him to greatly impact all three areas.

On a daily basis, Rushing is responsible for the operation of the 255-licensed bed acute care hospital that has 1,100 employees and sees more than 75,000 patients in its emergency departments each year. Among his numerous achievements at Memorial Hermann Northeast, Rushing led the construction of the Convenient Care Center at Summer Creek, which has served as a prototype for the Memorial Hermann Health System. There are now seven planned or constructed Memorial Hermann CCCs in the greater Houston area, including the most recent planned addition in Kingwood.

Rushing has been equally impactful in his community and civic endeavors through fund-raising and as an appointed or elected representative. He currently is serving in his second term as an elected member of the Humble Independent School District Board and is an active board member of the Lake Houston Area Chamber of Commerce, the Lake Houston Economic Development Partnership and the Lake Houston Family YMCA. Rushing has been actively involved in joint community activities with the American Heart Association and the United Way.

Rushing and his wife, Sara, have been married for 10 years. The couple resides in Kingwood and has three children: Harper, Graham and Finn. Rushing has found time outside of his business and community commitments to serve as a volunteer youth soccer coach for the Texas Heat Wave.

Manish Shah, M.D., director of pediatric spasticity and movement disorder surgery at Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital and the Memorial Hermann Mischer Neuroscience Institute at the Texas Medical Center, and assistant professor in the departments of pediatric surgery and neurosurgery at UTHealth, was also a 40 Under 40 award recipient.