Shepherd Center Welcomes New Chief Financial Officer
Beth Boatwright, CPA, joins Shepherd Center.
Shepherd Center recently announced that Beth Boatwright, CPA, has joined the organization as chief financial officer. As CFO, Boatwright will serve on the senior management team (SMT) and oversee the hospital’s budgets, financial strategy, and day-to-day business operations.
Boatwright is passionate about organizations with compelling missions in healthcare. She comes to Shepherd with 27 years of experience in finance management across the medical field, including senior roles at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Resurgens Orthopaedics.
In her most recent role as CFO of Emory University’s School of Medicine, she led annual budget development and managed other accounting and financial processes. At Emory, she oversaw a $1.3 billion budget while also providing day-to-day management for the fiscal affairs team.
“Beth is passionate about people and champions an innovation-friendly culture, helping to support breakthrough ideas,” said Jamie Shepherd, MBA, MHA, president and chief operating officer of Shepherd Center. “We are confident that her strategic vision and dedication to financial excellence will greatly contribute to our continued success.”
Boatwright is also involved in several community organizations for leaders in finance, as well as The Women’s Collective in Atlanta and Leadership Perimeter, whose mission is to inform and guide community leaders to align their individual skills and passions to address community needs. She received her Bachelor of Science in accounting from Georgia State University and is a certified public accountant.
Boatwright assumes the CFO role as Steve Holleman, MBA, CPA, retires after a nearly 30-year career at Shepherd Center.
With five decades of experience, Shepherd Center provides world-class clinical care, research, and family support for people experiencing the most complex conditions, including spinal cord and brain injuries, multi-trauma, traumatic amputations, stroke, multiple sclerosis, and pain. An elite center ranked by U.S. News as one of the nation’s top hospitals for rehabilitation, Shepherd Center is also recognized as both Spinal Cord Injury and Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems. Shepherd Center treats thousands of patients annually with unmatched expertise and unwavering compassion to help them begin again.