Sandi Gill named nursing chief for Plano, Frisco and Sachse campuses

Sandi Gill, RN, MHA, NEA-BC, is returning to Medical City Plano leadership with responsibility for nursing across three Collin County campuses at a moment of rapid growth and high-acuity care. Medical City Plano announced on April 7, 2026 that Gill has been named chief nursing officer for the 603-bed Plano hospital and senior vice president and CNO for Medical City Frisco and Medical City Sachse, roles she began stepping into in March 2026.

The appointment consolidates nursing oversight for facilities that together represent several hundred beds and thousands of staff. Ben Coogan, chief executive officer of Medical City Plano, highlighted Gill’s return in the system’s announcement, and leadership listings show Gill has taken on operational authority for clinical quality, patient-safety programs, staffing strategies and nursing education across the three campuses.

Gill brings more than a decade of executive nursing leadership across Medical City Healthcare and North Texas. She previously served as associate chief nursing officer and vice president of nursing operations at Medical City Plano and earlier served as chief nursing officer at Medical City Frisco, where she helped open the hospital in 2016 and later led redesigns of patient-care delivery. Her credentials listed by the system include a Master of Health Care Administration from the University of Phoenix, a Bachelor of Nursing from Ryerson University and NEA-BC certification; she is also identified as a DFW Great 100 Nurse and an HCA Healthcare Innovator Award recipient.

The scale and specialization of Medical City Plano underscore why the consolidated role matters: the Plano campus is Collin County’s largest hospital with 603 beds, roughly 1,700–1,800 physicians on staff and about 2,338 employees in 2025, and it is the county’s only American College of Surgeons-verified Level I Trauma Center. Plano also hosts the county’s verified Burn & Reconstructive Center and a Sarah Cannon Cancer Hospital, and recorded approximately 26,461 admissions and 53,072 emergency visits in 2025.

Operational pressures are immediate. Medical City Plano began a $108 million, 131,700-square-foot patient-tower expansion in September 2025 that will add about 60 medical-surgical beds, three rooftop helipads and shell space for future growth, with projected completion in 2026. Those added beds and expanded critical-access infrastructure increase demand for nurse recruitment, orientation, specialty training and throughput planning—core areas the CNO manages.

Regional coordination is also central to Gill’s remit. Medical City Frisco, which opened April 1, 2016 and now lists about 97–98 beds, reported roughly 1,487 births, 6,626 surgeries and 22,651 emergency visits in 2025. Medical City Sachse is a 32-bed campus acquired in a court-approved sale that closed Jan. 31, 2024 for about $41 million. Consolidating nursing leadership under Gill aligns staffing and clinical standards across these campuses as the system integrates Sachse and scales services in Frisco and Plano.

Concrete measures will determine whether the leadership change produces local improvements: nurse-to-patient ratios, emergency-department wait times, turnover rates and FTE growth tied to the Plano expansion are the indicators nurses, patients and community partners will use to judge impact over the coming year.