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Michigan Health & Hospital Association Elects Officers and Board Members, Bestows Awards

Posted on: Wednesday, 5 July 2006, 09:00 CDT

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 2007 MHA Board of Trustees include Gerald D. Fitzgerald, chairman; Richard Breon, chairman-elect; and Nancy M. Schlichting, treasurer. The board directs the Lansing-based association's statewide representation of hospitals and health care providers.

Fitzgerald, president and CEO of Oakwood Healthcare, Inc., Dearborn, will serve as the chairman during the association's 2006-2007 program year beginning July 1. The terms of service of Breon, chief executive officer, Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, and Schlichting, president and CEO, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, will also span the 2006-2007 program year. Georgia Fojtasek, president and CEO, Foote Health System, Jackson, will serve as the immediate past chairman.

Newly elected board members include Brian Connolly, president, Port Huron Hospital; Shirley Harris, president of the Michigan Association of Healthcare Advocates, North Ottawa Community Hospital, Grand Haven; Lester Heyboer Jr., president and CEO, HealthSource Saginaw, Inc.; and Frederick Nelson, administrator and CEO, Ontonagon Memorial Hospital.

Current MHA board members who will continue their terms of service are Michael Duggan, president and CEO, Detroit Medical Center; Kathleen Griffiths, president and CEO, Chelsea Community Hospital; Wayne Hellerstedt, administrator and CEO, Helen Newberry Joy Hospital, Newberry; Ned Hughes Jr., president, Gerber Memorial Health Services, Fremont; Elliot Joseph, president and CEO, St. John Health, Warren; Donald Kooy, president and CEO, McLaren Regional Medical Center, Flint; Patrick Lamberti, president and CEO, POH Medical Center, Pontiac; Thomas Lemon, CEO, Otsego Memorial Hospital, Gaylord; Spencer Maidlow, president and CEO, Covenant Medical Center, Inc., Saginaw; Kenneth Matzick, president and CEO, Beaumont Hospitals, Royal Oak; Philip McCorkle, president and CEO, Saint Mary's Health Care, Grand Rapids; Robert Milewski, president and CEO, Mt. Clemens General Hospital; Frank J. Sardone, president and CEO, Bronson Healthcare Group Inc., Kalamazoo; Dennis Swan, president and CEO, Sparrow Hospital and Health System, Lansing; and Joseph Wasserman, president and CEO, Lakeland Regional Health System, St. Joseph. In addition, Spencer Johnson continues to serve 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 Frank J. Sardone, president and CEO, Bronson Healthcare Group Inc., Kalamazoo, and to Richard Davidson, president, American Hospital Association, Washington, DC. Receiving the MHA Special Recognition Award were Sen. Beverly Hammerstrom (R-Monroe) and Janet Olszewski, director, Michigan Department of Community Health, Lansing.

The Ludwig Community Benefit Award is presented annually to health care organizations that demonstrate community benefit by collaborating with local organizations to improve the health and well-being of their communities through health care, economic or social initiatives. As resources to sustain and improve valuable community health improvement programs are often scarce, a $2,500 cash award is also presented from the MHA Health Foundation. The 2006 award was bestowed upon Oakwood Healthcare System, Dearborn, for its Summer Arts Academy.

The MHA is a state association, based in Lansing, which represents and supports Michigan hospitals, health systems and health care providers through education, advocacy and communication.

Michigan Health & Hospital Association

CONTACT: Sherry Mirasola of Michigan Health & Hospital Association,+1-517-323-3443

Web site: http://www.mha.org/

Source: PRNewswire

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