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Show Hospital board chooses chairman During their meeting last Thursday, the Hospital Board for the Ashley Valley Medical Center selected Dr. Paul Stringham. local physician, to be the body's chairman. Rev. Dane Package. Community Church, was selected as vice chairman. Ron Perry, Ashley Valley Medical Center administrator, was appointed secretary' to the board. According to Perry, eight of the nine persons to serve on the board have been selected by the hospital administration. "The board serves the interests of the community in regards to quality care," Perry said. "Decisions which the local board makes concerning quality are never over-ruled," he said. The board also acts as an advisory for financial matters. Perry said. Members of the board are Dr. James Allen, Dr. Stephen Limburg, Dr. Ted Wickstrom, Max Bessinger, Dr. Paul Stringham, Rev. Dane Packare, Ron Perry and Gayle McKeachnie. The board is set up so that physicians will always compose one less than half of the members on the board. Several of the people on the old hospital staff were solicited toserve on the hospital staff of the medical center, Perry said. |