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Show Regional Office in Richfield to Manage 0TTW Five Southern Utah HospkalsJUrIHe-B? Formation of a southern regional office for the management of Intermountain Health Care was announced by David II. Jeppson, IHC vice president, with Eugene C. Beck, administrator of Sevier Valley Hospital, named as regional administrator. Hospitals involved in the change, and which will be in the southern regional office operation, include Sevier Valley Hospital, Richfield; Garfield Memorial Hospital, Panguitch; Sanpete Valley Hospital, Mt. Pleasant; Fillmore Hospital, Fillmore and Dixie Memorial Center, St. George. Mr. Beck has been serving as administrator of three of the hospitals the past three years, including Richfield, Panguitch and Mt. Pleasant and has been affiliated with the Fillmore Hospital since January, 1976. The Dixie Medical Center has recently been added to the IHC operation through a management agreement with the Washington County Commission. Elwood Harrison serves as administrator of that facility. Appointment of administrators at the other hospitals include Douglas R. Fonnesbeck, Gai field Memorial and Wayne R. Ross, Sanpete Valley. Mr. Fonnesbeck has been assistant administrator at Panguitch since June, 1975 and was formerly administrative assistant at Logan Hospital. Ross was assistant administrator at Mt. Pleasant, a Doug Fonnesbeck post he held since 1973. Prior to that, he was a first lieutenant in the U. S. Air Force Hospital, SBBK HsBBfl siTZa sH Eugene C. Beck Travis AFB, Calif. Administrative appointments at Fillmore and Richfield are pending and will be announced later. Mr. Beck, who holds a Master of Public Health Degree from University of Southern California at Los Angeles, has been working with THC and its predecessor, Health Services Corp., for the past four years. He has been association with completion of new hospitals in Richfield and Panguitch and a modernization program at Sanpete Valley Hospital as well as establishing programs and agreements within each community to assure the operation of the facilities on a sound economic basis. Mr. Jeppson indicated that the growth and development of IHC has necessitated the changes to allow for a close association among the hospitals to share resources, establish common approaches to solving problems and to gain economics of scale in providing essential health services in the growing southern Utah communities. |