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Show Harrison Named Director Of Southern Health Care Region Elwood M. Harrison, administrator at Dixie Medical Center since 1963, has been appointed Director of Central and Shared Services for In-termountain Health Care's Southern Utah Region, said Eugene C. Beck, IHC southern Utah regional administrator. In this new position 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 Medical 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 gives him insight into the needs of the hospitals he will be serving," Beck commented. "With his addition we can expect coordinated shared services among our hospitals resulting in reduced expenses and increased efficiency," he said. Harrison will assume his new responsibilities immediately 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 to find a replacement. Harrison was born in Cedar City, graduated from high school and attended the Branch Agricultural College there. He entered the US Navy in 1947 and graduated from the US He is married to the former Linda Smith and is involved in many civic and church activities. He has served as a member of the Weber State Dixie College nursing program advisory board since 1974 and has served three years as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Utah Hospital Association. |