Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Jackson Healthcare
You don't just wake up one day and become a CEO or a corporate executive. You put all your assets on the line to not only create a company but sustain one so people can have jobs. And every day the weight of that responsibility is on your shoulders. It's why politicians should never forget companies are people. We are people who started with little more than a few bucks in our pocket, a lot of ambition and big dreams. For those of us that started with nothing, that is the American Dream.
Biography
Richard L. Jackson serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Jackson Healthcare. Jackson Healthcare provides hospitals with physicians, nurses and allied health professionals to ensure the delivery of timely, high-quality patient care.
For the past 34 years, Jackson has been instrumental in conceptualizing and developing more than 25 healthcare companies. His ownership and operation of staffing companies, surgery centers, practice management companies, clinics and hospitals have endowed him with the depth and breadth required to thrive in the ever-changing healthcare environment.
Driven by a personal mission to inject hope and opportunity into the lives of underserved children, Jackson actively supports numerous local and international charitable organizations. In 2010, he established a national Hospital Charitable Service Award program – the only recognition program in the healthcare industry celebrating hospital accomplishments at the program level.
He is also the founder and Chairman of Patients for Fair Compensation, a non-partisan 501c3 organization dedicated to bringing an alternative solution to traditional medical malpractice reform.