Brandon May has taken over the chief executive officer’s post at Doctors Hospital of Manteca – the community’s largest private sector employer and largest medical facility in the South County.
May, 40, has worked for the parent Tenet Corporation for five years. He comes to Manteca from El Paso, Texas and the Providence East Campus Hospital. He attended Texas Tech, in Lubbock, TX, where he earned his Bachelor’s and his Master’s Degree in Business Administration and met his future bride, Kimmy. He and his wife have two boys, Jackson, 3, and Eliana, two months.
Prior to being in El Paso he spent eight years in Florida and two years in Chicago where he served as the Chief Financial Officer at the West Lake Hospital.
 “Doctors Hospital is very similar to my last one in El Paso with its love to reinforce family values,” May said. “We need to treat everyone who comes through our doors like family. We should greet everyone with genuine compassion and a smile or we don’t deserve their business.”
May said when he walks down the hallways of the hospital, he doesn’t let a patient or a staff member go by without saying hello to them – saying he learned the value of interaction at a young age. He said he loves to be at small community hospital with 72 to 80 beds where he feels the patients receive greater care recognizing his staff in Manteca as a family of medical professionals.
As far as moving again in future years, he said he hates being torn away from friends – something he doesn’t like and hopes he can make a home for his growing family in the greater Manteca/Ripon area. His wife Kimmy specializes in program development for non-profit groups.
It was in sports activities at his Lubbock/Coronado High School in Lubbock that he really began to appreciate those around him – his coaches and fellow athletes in football and track.  May set records in sprints and hurdles along with stadium records.  His best times were in the 110-meter-high hurdles and the 300-meter intermediate hurdles and on the sprint relay team for a school record.  He said his track Coach James Gandy made a big difference in his maturity level and in his life in high school as did his AP English teacher and associated principal, a Mrs. Harden.
“As for Coach Gandy, he doesn’t know how much he helped me,” May said.  In his seventh grade and junior high school years, he also competed in wrestling.
He referred to a Mahatma Gandhi quote that has stayed with him over the years, “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in service to others.”

To contact Glenn Kahl, email gkahl@mantecabulletin.com.