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Show Cedar City native named to IHC Post H " ' kt . ' r h W ! , t j ? . ' j Elwood M. Harrison, administrator at Dixie Medical Center since 1963, has been appointed Director of Central and Shared Services for In-termountain In-termountain Health Care's Southern Utah Region. The announcement an-nouncement was made by Eugene C. Beck, IHC's Southern Utah Regional Administrator. In this new position, Mr. Harrison will be responsible for providing shared services and human resource management services to IHC's Southern Region. This region currently includes six hospitals : Dixie Medical Center, St. George ; Valley View Medica Center, Cedar City; Garfield Memorial Hospital, Panguitch; Sevier Valley Hospital, Richfield; Fillmore Hospital, Fillmore; and Sanpete Valley Hospital, Mt. Pleasant. "Elwood's long service as a hospital administrator ad-ministrator gives mm insight into the heeds of the hospitals he will be serving", Beck commented. com-mented. "With his addition, ad-dition, we can expect coordinated shared services among our hospitals,' resulting in reduced expenses and increased efficiency", he said. Mr. Harrison will assume his new responsibilities immediately im-mediately and will remain at the hospital until a new administrator has been appointed, according to Beck. The Dixie Medical Center Governing Board has formed a search committee com-mittee to find a replacement. Mr. Harrison was born in Cedar City, was graduated from high s school and attended the I Branch Agricultural College there. He entered (' the U.S. Navy in 1947 and y. was graduated from the U.S. Navy School of Medicine as a certified j lab technician in 1952. He j 1 was discharged from the j Navy in 1953 and began V his long, career at the fi Dixie Hospital as chief of l the laboratory in 1954. jj; He is married to the former Linda Smith and is involved in many civic j and church activities. He J has served as a member M of the Weber State Dixie If College nursing program j 1 advisory board since 1974 and has served three j years as a member of the s Board of Trustees of the : ; Utah Hospital ; Association. ;.i 1 I Francis Betenson, Manager of the First Security Bank Cedar City Branch, presents Fred C. Adams a full scholarship for the, 1980 Utah Shakespearean Festival. This is the 19th consecutive year the Cedar City Branch has provided the Festival with an acting scholarship, scholar-ship, and in 1962 the First Security scholarship was one of only four given. The Cedar City Branch presents the scholaship as a local effort. |