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Jeff Reecer, FACHE, serves as president of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton, a position he assumed in January 2016 after leaving the facility in 2012 to become president of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Allen. Prior to that he spent 11 years as vice president of operations at Texas Health Denton.

While at Texas Health Allen, Reecer worked to strategically reposition the hospital, with the addition of key physicians, expansion of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and creation of a women’s behavioral health unit. The result was growth for several key service lines and increased volumes. Among his most proud accomplishments, physician and employee engagement scores rose dramatically during his tenure, with both reaching the 99th percentile.

A native of Lockney, Texas, Reecer holds a bachelor of science as well as a master of business administration from Texas Tech University.

He lives in Denton with his wife, Dena. Reecer enjoys spending time with his two adult children, son Aaron and daughter Chloe. The Reecer family is actively involved in their church and community, and enjoys traveling. An avid runner and cyclist, you can also find him leading Texas Health’s Be Healthy exercise teams.

Melissa Winter, D.N.P., R.N., NEA-BC, serves as chief nursing officer at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton, having assumed the position in July 2024.

Winter works closely with Timothy Harris, M.D., chief quality and medical officer, and hospital president Jeff Reecer to develop and oversee the implementation of policies, procedures and practices to support the provision of safe, high-quality patient care. She is responsible for the management of nursing practice, nursing education, professional development, nursing research and nursing administration.

Winter previously worked at Baylor Scott & White Health, where she served as regional chief nursing officer for Baylor Scott & White Grapevine, All Saints and Irving. She served that system for 18 years in a number of nursing leadership roles.

Winter earned an associate degree in nursing from Methodist School of Nursing in Lubbock, Texas, and a bachelor’s degree in nursing and master’s degree in nursing administration from West Texas A&M University in Canyon. She also earned a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from the University of Pittsburgh.

She is an advisory member of the Tuman Breast Cancer Foundation and serves on the Collin College Nursing Advisory Council. She also has served as an assistant clinical professor at Texas Woman’s University and an adjunct clinical professor at the Baylor University Louise Herrington School of Nursing. She has been named a DFW Great 100 Nurse and has received the DFW Hospital Council’s Young Executive of the Year Award and the D Magazine Nursing Excellence Award.

Winter and her husband have a son who attends the University of Arkansas, a high school aged daughter and two fur-baby rescues – a dog and a cat. She enjoys spending time with family and friends, working out, watching her daughter play volleyball and teaching within the children’s ministry at her church.

Timothy Harris, M.D., was named chief quality and medical officer at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton in December 2013. A respected physician in Denton County and leader at Texas Health Resources, he has been actively involved in improving quality outcomes while on the medical staff at Texas Health Denton, and served as vice chief of staff from 2010-11 and as chief of staff since 2012.

Harris is also a member of the Board of Trustees at Texas Health Denton, and a member of the Texas Health Physician Leadership Council (PLC) and the Texas Health Denton PLC, roles in which he has the opportunity to contribute to the development of hospital policies, help guide strategic planning and improve physician and hospital staff relations. He also currently serves as medical director of the Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) Hospice Denton and medical director of ACT Home Health in Denton.

He is an adjunct assistant clinical professor at the University of Texas at Arlington for the School of Nursing and a clinical preceptor of nurse practitioner students. Harris earned a bachelor of science in combined science from Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio, and a medical doctorate from Northeastern Ohio Medical University through a six-year combined degree program. He completed an internship and residency in internal medicine/pediatric care at Akron General Medical Center and Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron. He is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Harris and his wife, Carolyn, are proud parents of four children, Amanda, Lauren, Michael and Molly.