Ken B. Beverly, MHA

Class 1969-1971

BBA, Univ. Georgia
MHA, Baylor Univ., Waco, TX, 1971

Chairman, Georgia Hospital Association, 2002
President, CEO, Archbold Memorial hospital, Thomasville, GA, 1974 to present
Resident, William Beaumont AMC, El Paso, TX, 1970-71

Biography

Ken Beverly had originally planned to go to law school; but, after feeling a calling to serve in Vietnam, he took a direct commission to become a Lieutenant in the Army Medical Department where he served as administrator for a surgical hospital. After Vietnam, Beverly returned to the states where he attended Baylor University and received his master’s of health care administration. For the next 40 years, Beverly spent his career in Thomasville, Ga. In 1974, Beverly joined Archbold’s Community Mental Health Center, was named president and chief executive officer of John D. Archbold Memorial hospital in 1985, and has served in his current role as president and CEO for Archbold Medical Center since 1992. During his career Beverly has served on the Hospital Medicaid Advisory Committee for the Georgia Department of Community Health, served as chairman of VHA Georgia and Phoenix Health Care Management Services, just completed serving as chairman of the Georgia Hospital Association and was named CEO of the Year by the Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals in 2002 — just to name a few. Professionally, Beverly cited some of his accomplishments to include his involvement in membership organizations such as VHA and GHA and credited the team effort of such organizations as very valuable. He was happy to have been involved in shaping the modern format of VHA Georgia, which included hiring the current president and CEO, Richard Howerton. Beverly is also proud of and passionate about his involvement in tort reform advocacy, inadequate reimbursement and manpower. He believes that unless we have adequately trained professionals, many of the other issues facing health care will be obsolete. “Health care is a people business,” he states, and the first step, he believes, to moving health care forward is improving the current manpower situation. When asked of which achievement he was most proud during his career, he stated his personal accomplishments of marrying his childhood sweetheart, Mary Jo, and fathering three sons who have all married and settled in Thomasville.

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