Heather Porter

Heather Porter is the chief clinical officer at NMC Health. She joined NMC Health in 2003. She has served in a variety of roles including medical case manager, director of case management, and associate chief nursing officer of population health.

Porter graduated from Fort Hays State University with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and has a Masters of Science in Nursing with an emphasis in Health Care Administration from the University of Phoenix. Porter is specially certified as a Nurse Executive and accredited case manager-registered nurse. Serving on boards of the Missouri-Kansas chapter of the American Case Management Association (ACMA) and the Hesston College Nursing Advisory Council. Porter is a past member of Kansas Insurance Department’s Utilization Review Advisory Committee. She recently served on the Governors Alzheimer Disease Plan Working Group to begin development of a state Alzheimer plan.

She and her husband, Bob, have four grown children.