Marianne L. Ehrlich

President & CEO, Healthy Family Initiatives (Houston)

Marianne L. Ehrlich, President & CEO of , has extensive experience in health care and human services administration.  She was the founding director and leader for ten years of the Patient Relations Service at St. Luke's Episcopal and Texas Children's Hospitals, and the Texas Heart Institute, during which time she also served on and was elected president of the board of directors of the National Society of Patient Representatives, a 1000 member organization representing over 4000 hospitals in the United States and abroad, chartered under the American Hospital Association   She was the motivating force behind and founding president of the Texas Society of Patient Representatives under the auspices of the Texas Hospital Association.

Ms. Ehrlich subsequently provided leadership for six years as Associate Director and chief operating officer at the Houston Child Guidance Center, at that time Houston's largest private, non-profit, outpatient provider of mental health services to children and their families

Ms. Ehrlich was an invited guest speaker at the first White House Conference on Consumerism in Health Care, during the Reagan administration, and has been decorated by the Government of Italy for her humanitarian efforts at the international level. In 2004, Ms. Ehrlich was designated one of ten “Women on the Move” by the Texas Executive Women organization.

Contact information:

Marianne L. Ehrlich
President & CEO
Healthy Family Initiatives
7500 Beechnut, Suite 366
Houston, Texas 77074
713/270-8849, Ext. 23
713/270-9532 Fax
mehrlich@hfimail.org