title: Nelson: management is a team effort.
abstract: Sally I. Nelson, CPA, is executive vice president, chief financial officer, and chief information officer for Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, the largest freestanding pediatric hospital in the United States. It is a part of Texas Children's Hospital and Integrated Delivery System (TCH IDS). Before joining the organization in 1986, Nelson served as a senior manager in the computer services consulting practice of KPMG Peat Marwick-Houston. Nelson recently was named a finalist in CFO magazine's national 2001 CFO Excellence Awards, the first CFO of a not-for-profit organization to be named a finalist since not-for-profits became eligible for the awards. She was cited for her accomplishments in managing expectations and relationships with the community and its leaders, government officials, Baylor College of Medicine, physicians, patients' families, hospital personnel, trustees of the hospital, and investors.
authors.affiliation: Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, USA.
authors.forename: S I
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Nelson
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital; D006740:Hospital Administrators; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007324:Institutional Management Teams; D007857:Leadership; D013781:Texas