AHA Elects New Trustees to the Board
by Barbara Kram, Editor | July 31, 2007
AHA elects board members
Washington D.C. -- The American Hospital Association (AHA) has elected eight new members to its Board of Trustees for terms beginning January 1, 2008 and ending December 31, 2010. The Board of Trustees is the policy-making body of the AHA and has ultimate authority for the control and management of its direction and finances.
New board members include :
Mark Adams, M.D., chief of medical staff for the Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton, Wash., practices vascular and thoracic surgery. He is also a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Washington.
Adams is currently a board member of Regence Blue Shield, the Western Conference of Prepaid Health Plans and the Olympic Peninsula Kidney Center. He is former president of the Washington State Medical Association and has served on the Board of Trustees of the Washington State Hospital Association.
Mary Blunt, president of Sentara Life Care Corporation & Rehabilitation in Norfolk, Va., since
1999, has been with Sentara for 16 years. She oversees and directs operations planning and marketing strategies for the long-term care/senior services division, which includes skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, an adult day health care center and mobile meals programs, among other vital services. Blunt also oversees rehabilitation services in four Sentara hospitals.
Blunt is currently chair of the AHA Governing Council for Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation, having served as a member since 2004. Blunt is also a member of the Virginia Board of Nursing Home Administrators and the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE).
Raymond Grady, president and CEO of Evanston Hospital and president of the Hospitals and Clinics division for Evanston Northwestern Healthcare in Evanston, Ill., joined the staff of Evanston Northwestern Healthcare in 1979 as an assistant vice president.
Long active in the AHA, Grady was appointed to the AHA Board in January 2006 to fill a vacancy; he now begins his first full term as a board member. Grady is a member of the AHA's Long-Range Policy Committee and has served as chairman of the board of the AHA's Institute for Diversity. He served on AHA's Commission on Workforce and was AHA liaison to the Accrediting Commission on Education and Health Services Administration, as well as chair of the Accrediting Commission. He is also the immediate past chairman of the Illinois Hospital Association and is a fellow of ACHE.
Glenn Steele, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., has been president and CEO of the Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pa., since 2001. He joined Geisinger from the University of Chicago where he served as the Richard T. Crane Professor in the Department of Surgery, vice president for Medical Affairs and Dean of the Division of Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine.
New board members include :
Mark Adams, M.D., chief of medical staff for the Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton, Wash., practices vascular and thoracic surgery. He is also a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Washington.
Adams is currently a board member of Regence Blue Shield, the Western Conference of Prepaid Health Plans and the Olympic Peninsula Kidney Center. He is former president of the Washington State Medical Association and has served on the Board of Trustees of the Washington State Hospital Association.
Mary Blunt, president of Sentara Life Care Corporation & Rehabilitation in Norfolk, Va., since
1999, has been with Sentara for 16 years. She oversees and directs operations planning and marketing strategies for the long-term care/senior services division, which includes skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, an adult day health care center and mobile meals programs, among other vital services. Blunt also oversees rehabilitation services in four Sentara hospitals.
Blunt is currently chair of the AHA Governing Council for Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation, having served as a member since 2004. Blunt is also a member of the Virginia Board of Nursing Home Administrators and the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE).
Raymond Grady, president and CEO of Evanston Hospital and president of the Hospitals and Clinics division for Evanston Northwestern Healthcare in Evanston, Ill., joined the staff of Evanston Northwestern Healthcare in 1979 as an assistant vice president.
Long active in the AHA, Grady was appointed to the AHA Board in January 2006 to fill a vacancy; he now begins his first full term as a board member. Grady is a member of the AHA's Long-Range Policy Committee and has served as chairman of the board of the AHA's Institute for Diversity. He served on AHA's Commission on Workforce and was AHA liaison to the Accrediting Commission on Education and Health Services Administration, as well as chair of the Accrediting Commission. He is also the immediate past chairman of the Illinois Hospital Association and is a fellow of ACHE.
Glenn Steele, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., has been president and CEO of the Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pa., since 2001. He joined Geisinger from the University of Chicago where he served as the Richard T. Crane Professor in the Department of Surgery, vice president for Medical Affairs and Dean of the Division of Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine.
