SERVICE PROVIDERS - Key Persons
Amanda Pruitt, MAcc, is Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for Highpoint Health - Riverview and Highpoint Health - Trousdale. Prior to this role, Amanda served as Assistant Chief Financial Officer for Highpoint Health with Ascension Saint Thomas. In addition to her new role, she retains oversight for market accounting and financial reporting.
She was born and raised in North Carolina and received her Master of Accountancy from Averett University in Virginia. She has extensive financial knowledge that stems from over twelve years of diversified work, inclusive of public accounting, governmental, and healthcare experience. Employed with Lifepoint since 2017, she has held progressive finance roles with healthcare facilities in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee.
Amanda's favorite part of her job is that she has found a place where the numbers truly matter. In healthcare, behind every financial metric or statistic is a patient's life. With that in mind, she stays motivated to be fiscally responsible with a mission towards high quality care. In her free time, she enjoys painting and spending time with her husband Ryan and their two dogs, Leroy and Elvis.
Angela began as a Cumberland University graduate nurse with Sumner Regional in 2007 on the telemetry floor and transitioned to a Nursing Director in 2011. For about eight years, she oversaw various nursing units, as well as inpatient therapy services and PICC services. She is a certified professional in patient safety, qualified to lead system-wide initiatives and critical improvements through this exciting phase of growth and challenging time in healthcare.
Angela was a Senior Nursing Director at Highpoint Health - Sumner from 2019 to 2022, focusing on Women's Services, Surgical Services, Med/Surg, Inpatient Rehab Services, and Wound Care. She became VP of Nursing Operations for a short time, before transitioning to our Interim CNO in November of 2022.
Angela will be instrumental in making sure all staff, including clinical staff, are heard. She has a positive history of implementing front line recommendations from the Culture of Safety and Engagement Survey completed by staff annually. She has been successful at recruiting quality nurses and retaining local talent.
Job Titles:
- Director, Marketing and Communications
- Media Inquiries
Originally from Virginia, Sparks received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and her Master of Health Administration from Virginia Commonwealth University, MCV Campus in Richmond, Virginia. She is LEAN Certified, and Kata trained.
Her favorite part of her role in hospital administration is enabling healthcare providers and employees to provide high quality care to the community…truly, living out our mission of Making Communities Healthier!
In her free time, Carolyn enjoys spending time in her community and on the lake or hiking with her husband Kyle and their two dogs, Storm and Juice Box.
Geoff Lifferth, MD, FAAEM, was born in Madison, Tennessee, and has worked in the Emergency Department at Highpoint Health - Sumner for the last 15 years. He did his undergraduate work at Brigham Young University, medical school at UT Memphis, and his Residency in Emergency Medicine at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine residency, working at Mass General, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Boston Children's Hospital.
Dr. Lifferth is board-certified in Emergency Medicine and has served in multiple leadership positions in our hospital, including previously serving as the Chair of the Ethics committee, and as the Chief of Staff for two years. He is the former vice president of the Tennessee AAEM, and currently serves on the board of directors.
He and his wife Kate have five children. He is an outdoorsman who enjoys backpacking, sailing, running and spending time with family and the Boy Scouts. He is also fluent in conversational Japanese.
Jennifer Holder, RN, BSN, MBA, CPPS, began her career as a bedside nurse at Baptist Hospital and Saint Thomas Health Services. For 11 years, she worked in multiple areas across the Saint Thomas health system including med/surg, ICU, MICU, NICU, SICU, and IV/PICC units showing her ability to adapt and be flexible with various assignments, patient populations and census levels. As stand-out nurses do, she then began to fix the issues she saw bedside by taking on a role in process improvement.
In 2013, she joined Highpoint Health, starting off as the Director of Quality and Risk Management at Highpoint Health - Riverview and then serving for 2.5 years as the Director of Quality and Case Management at Highpoint Health - Sumner. While at Highpoint Health - Sumner, she made significant contributions to adjusted length of stay (ALOS) reduction and focused on readmission work and enhanced regulatory compliance. She served as Chief Nursing Officer at Highpoint Health - Trousdale since 2017, taking on CNO duties at Highpoint Health - Riverview as well in mid-2021.
Holder's achievements while at Highpoint Health - Trousdale and Highpoint Health - Riverview are numerous, including: planning and implementing the new service line for Intensive Outpatient Psychotherapy and Senior Life Solutions at Highpoint Health - Trousdale, increase participation rates in the Culture of Safety and Engagement Survey and high staff satisfaction rates, maintain zero contract labor and low RN turn-over rates at both facilities, and much more.
Rod Harkleroad, RN is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Highpoint Health - Sumner with Ascension Saint Thomas. Harkleroad serves as market president of Highpoint Health with Ascension Saint Thomas, which includes Highpoint Health - Sumner as well as Highpoint Health - Riverview in Carthage, Tennessee and Highpoint Health - Trousdale in Hartsville, Tennessee.
A seasoned healthcare administrator with significant operational and clinical experience, Harkleroad has served in diverse leadership positions in North Carolina and Tennessee. Prior to his role at SRMC, Harkleroad served as CEO of Frye Regional Medical Center (FRMC), a Duke LifePoint facility located in Hickory, North Carolina. He also previously served in the Highpoint Health market as CEO of Highpoint Health - Riverview and Highpoint Health - Trousdale and as associate chief nursing officer at Highpoint Health - Sumner.
Harkleroad earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and a Master of Business Administration and Management from Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2019, he was named one of Becker's Hospital Review's "60 Rural Hospital and Health System CEOs to Know."