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A longtime health care security industry professional and former police officer joined CoxHealth as its director of public safety and security.
Alan Butler, who started this month, oversees public safety at CoxHealth's six hospitals and roughly 80 clinics, according to a news release.
“After consulting from outside hospitals for 12 years, I wanted to get back inside health care and improve things on the ground," Butler said in the release. “Public safety and security is an extension of the mission of health care, and I want to help CoxHealth fulfill the commitment to create a safe care and work environment."
Butler succeeds Eric Clay, who exited in August to take a job outside of the health care system, said CoxHealth spokesperson Kaitlyn McConnell. Clay's LinkedIn profile shows he became vice president of security for Houston, Texas-based Memorial Hermann Health System last year after working at CoxHealth for nearly six years.
Butler comes to CoxHealth from Denver-based health care security services company HSS, for which he worked 12 years and most recently was vice president of health care security, according to the release. He has more than 30 years of experience in health care security, after eight years as an officer with the Dallas Police Department in Texas.
At HSS, Butler worked with more than 200 hospitals nationwide on security.
Butler at CoxHealth oversees a staff of 80 and an undisclosed security budget, McConnell said, declining to release his annual salary.
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