AHA Committee on Volunteers names 2017 chair

Margie Beadles, volunteer/auxilian at CoxHealth in Springfield, MO, is 2017 chair of the AHA’s Committee on Volunteers. The specialty committee of the AHA Board of Trustees supports the AHA mission and policy agenda by its activities in public policy development and participates in AHA grassroots advocacy while providing the benefit of its community perspective on issues related to the health care field. It also serves as the selection committee for the AHA's Hospital Awards for Volunteer Excellence. Beadles is a past president of the Missouri Association of Hospital Auxiliaries, and previously served on AHA’s Association for Healthcare Volunteer Resource Professionals conference planning committees. For more on the committee and its new members, see the AHA news release.