Kara Hill, senior director of health integration at Texas Health Institute, has over twenty-five years of experience in the nonprofit sector, leading organizations and programs serving under-resourced populations. Her passion is to serve, support, and strengthen vulnerable communities. Her recent focus is on community-based interventions and team-based integrated behavioral health while promoting value-based care and contracting.

Hill has served the Greater Houston area over the last ten years, leading health care organizations and working collaboratively with local and state governments, funders, hospital systems, safety net clinics, clinicians, and staff to transform care delivery. She has also overseen programs that work collectively and collaboratively with communities to physician and mental health, housing stability, and resilience.

Hill started her career working with families experiencing homelessness. She leveraged funding resources from various local and state entities to convene stakeholders from multiple sectors, including federal, state, and local governments, while partnering with organizations to implement evidence-based best practice housing-first models throughout Ohio’s urban and rural areas. Replicated across the U.S., this program is now recognized nationally as Rapid Re-Housing and is funded by the Federal Government’s Housing and Urban Development offices.

Hill earned her Bachelor of Science in Social Work from Bowling Green State University and her Master of Health Administration from Texas A&M University. She is a doctoral student in health care administration at Oklahoma State University.