LANSING, Mich., July 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Members of the Michigan Health & Hospital Association (MHA) elected new officers and board members during the association's Annual Membership Meeting last week. Officers of the 2006 MHA Board of Trustees include Larry Warren, chairman; Gerald D. Fitzgerald, chairman-elect; and Richard Breon, treasurer. The board directs the Lansing- based association's statewide representation of hospitals and health care providers.
Warren, director and CEO of University of Michigan Hospitals & Health Centers, Ann Arbor, will serve as chairman during the association's 2005-2006 program year beginning July 1. The terms of service of Fitzgerald, president and CEO, Oakwood Healthcare, Inc., Dearborn, and Breon, chief executive officer, Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, will also span the 2005-2006 program year. Georgia Fojtasek, president and CEO, Foote Health System, Jackson, will serve as immediate past chairman.
Newly elected MHA board members include Philip McCorkle Jr., chief executive officer, Saint Mary's Health Care, Grand Rapids, and Dennis Swan, president and CEO, Sparrow Hospital & Health System, Lansing.
Current MHA board members who were re-appointed to new terms of service are Kathleen Griffiths, president and CEO, Chelsea Community Hospital; Wayne Hellerstedt, administrator and CEO, Helen Newberry Joy Hospital, Newberry; Elliot Joseph, president and CEO, St. John Health, Warren; Robert Milewski, president and CEO, Mt. Clemens General Hospital; Nancy Schlichting, president and CEO, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit; and Joseph Wasserman, president and CEO, Lakeland Regional Health System, St. Joseph.
Current MHA board members who will continue their terms of service are Randy DeGroot, chief executive officer, Community Health Center of Branch County, Coldwater; Michael Duggan, president & CEO, Detroit Medical Center; Dwight Gascho, president & CEO, Scheurer Hospital, Pigeon; Ned Hughes Jr., president, Gerber Memorial Health Services, Fremont; Bob Kinsey, auxilian, Crittenton Hospital Medical Center, Rochester Hills, and president, Michigan Association of Healthcare Advocates; Donald Kooy, chief executive officer, McLaren Regional Medical Center, Flint; Patrick Lamberti, president and CEO, POH Medical Center, Pontiac; Thomas Lemon, chief executive officer, Otsego Memorial Hospital, Gaylord; Spencer Maidlow, president and CEO, Covenant Medical Center Inc., Saginaw; Kenneth Matzick, president & CEO, Beaumont Hospitals, Royal Oak; Frank Sardone, president and CEO, Bronson Healthcare Group Inc., Kalamazoo; John Schon, administrator and CEO, Dickinson County Healthcare System, Iron Mountain; and Roger Spoelman, president and CEO, Mercy General Health Partners, Muskegon. In addition, Spencer Johnson continues his term of office as president of the association.
The MHA also presented several awards during last week's meeting. The MHA Meritorious Service Award, the association's highest honor, was presented to Ted D. Wasson, president emeritus, Beaumont Hospitals, Royal Oak. Receiving the MHA Special Recognition Award were William E. Madigan, executive director of the Michigan State Medical Society, Lansing, and Sister Mary Ellen Howard, executive director of the St. Frances Cabrini Clinic of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Detroit.
MHA Ludwig Community Benefit Awards were bestowed upon Oakwood Healthcare System, Dearborn, and Hurley Medical Center, Flint. Oakwood was recognized for its Lincoln/Jefferson-Barnes Healthcare Center and Hurley for its Pediatric Asthma Disease Management program. The MHA presents the award annually to health care organizations that demonstrate community benefit by improving the health and well-being of their communities through health, economic or social initiatives. As resources to sustain and improve valuable community health improvement programs are often scarce, new this year, each recipient received a $2,500 cash award from the MHA.
The MHA is a state association, based in Lansing, that represents and supports Michigan hospitals, health systems and health care providers through education, advocacy and communication.
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