Cochran makes move to River Park as human resources director

River Park Hospital is pleased to announce the addition of Clair Cochran as the new director of human resources.

Most recently, Cochran served as an employee relations manager with Carrier. Prior to that, Cochran was an area manager for Staffing Solutions in Middle Tennessee. She also worked as a branch manager with Olsten Staffing in the Knoxville area before moving to McMinnville in 1993.

Cochran brings versatile human resource experience to the hospital with an emphasis placed on recruiting and retaining top talent for River Park. She is a graduate of Leadership McMinnville’s class of 1994 and enjoys golf, tennis, hiking and music. She is married and has two children.

“My family and I have been pleased to call McMinnville home for the past 11 years,” Cochran said. “I look forward to the opportunity to serve the community by being part of our local hospital.”

River Park Hospital, founded in 1970 as a 60-bed community hospital, has grown into an ultra-modern 127-bed hospital designed to provide local services through ultra-modern technology to the health care needs of today’s families.

HCA Tennessee is the most comprehensive health care network in Middle Tennessee and the Chattanooga area offering more choices of hospitals and access to affordable, quality healthcare. Through the HCA network of hospitals in Tennessee, over 82,400 admissions and 293,000 emergency room visits are handled per year system-wide.

In 2002, there were over 9,500 births, 990 cardiac surgeries, 7,400 cardiac catheterization procedures and 1,100 cancer research protocol patients throughout the network.

With over 2,200 licensed beds and a network of over 3,000 physicians in 37 specialties within the state, HCA’s Tennessee hospitals provide care for patients in both metropolitan and rural areas.