Vice President

Clinical Education – HCA Healthcare

Toni Swinton serves as the Vice President for Clinical Education supporting the Central West Texas Division of HCA Healthcare. Prior to this role, over her twenty-seven year career, Dr. Swinton’s clinical experience ranged from a bedside clinician in high-risk obstetrics to perinatal perioperative nurse and perinatal clinical educator. Dr. Swinton’s current responsibilities enables the integration of her passions for clinical competency, professional development, patient safety, and evidence-based practice in an effort to enhance or design education initiatives across a variety of healthcare organizations.

Beyond the work in her day to day clinical education leadership role, she also appreciates the opportunity to influence the profession of nursing through volunteer work in national professional nursing organizations that include core membership in the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses’ Finance Committee and as secretary-treasurer on the board of directors of the National Certification Corporation, as well as the Board of Directors Chair for CAPITAL Idea here in Central Texas.

Dr. Swinton holds teaching Nursing Certificate from the University of Texas at Austin; Bachelor of Science, Nursing from New York University; Master of Science and Doctor of Nursing Practice, Clinical Nurse Specialist – Women’s Health from University of South Alabama. She also holds multiple certifications including Inpatient Obstetrics, Electronic Fetal Monitoring, Obstetric Neonatal Quality and Safety, and Nursing Professional Development.

Originally from Georgetown, Guyana “by way of” New York City; Dr. Swinton, her daughter Jazmin and her husband Tyron, now consider Austin home.