John A. Fairman, a native of Cleveland, Mississippi, was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Delta Health Center, Inc. in 2009. With over 44 years of solid managerial experience in community-based primary care delivery, managed care, integrated delivery systems, teaching hospitals and consulting, Mr. Fairman is committed to making quality healthcare accessible to all patients in need.

For more than 50 years Delta Health Center, Inc. (DHC) has provided health care for some of the most vulnerable communities in the Mississippi Delta. Delta Health Center was co-founded by Tufts University physicians, Dr. H. Jack Geiger and Dr. Count Gibson. Influenced by their work in the south during the civil rights era, they witnessed firsthand the extreme poverty and ill health that plagued rural communities in the region