David Hyman to Lead AHA's Committee on Governance

WASHINGTON (January 9, 2018) – The American Hospital Association (AHA) today announced that David B. Hyman, DDS, will be chair for the AHA's 2018 Committee on Governance (COG).  

The COG is a specialty committee of the AHA Board of Trustees. The committee is responsible for providing input for AHA’s policy development, leading effective involvement of the nation's hospital trustees in grassroots advocacy, providing advice on AHA’s trustee initiatives, and enhancing communication with and involvement of trustees in the AHA.

Hyman is a board director of Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare (HHC). The integrated health system includes a tertiary-care teaching hospital, an acute-care community teaching hospital, an acute-care hospital and trauma center, two community hospitals, the state’s most extensive behavioral health network, a large multispecialty physician group, a regional home care system, an array of senior services, a large physical therapy and rehabilitation network and an accountable care organization.

Hyman is director emeritus of MidState Medical Center (an HHC organization), and previously served as chairman of the board. He is a member of the Connecticut State Dental Association and serves on its constitution and bylaws committee. He received his DDS from the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery at the University of Maryland.

Victor J. Orler, chair of Presence Health in Chicago, will serve as chair-elect and will assume the role of chair in 2019.

Andrew M. Stern, trustee of Medical City Dallas Hospital in Dallas, is the immediate past chair. Vanessa Ervin, chair of Onslow Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, N.C., serves as the AHA board liaison to the COG. 

Newly elected members serving three-year terms beginning January 1, 2018, include: Beth Armstrong, trustee, Intermountain Park City (Utah) Hospital; David Blandino, M.D., trustee, Allegheny Health Network in Pittsburgh; Nancy Kabat, trustee, ProMedica Health in Toledo, Ohio; William Menner, trustee, Grinnell (Iowa) Regional Medical Center; Sandra Randolph, trustee, Florida Hospital in Orlando; Debra Silberstein, trustee, Lawrence (Mass.) General Hospital; Rick Smith, chair of Schneck Medical Center in Seymour, Ind; and James Wynne, trustee, Texas Health Resources in Arlington, Texas. Also filling vacancies on the COG board are Shirley Carraway, trustee, Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, N.C.; and Sharon Remmer, trustee, Brookhaven Memorial Hospital in Patchogue, N.Y.     

They join current COG members: David Brown, chair of Billings (Mont.) Clinic; Rosemary Burns, board member, East Texas Medical Center Foundation in Tyler, Texas; William Cox, M.D., trustee, UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center in Steamboat Springs, Colo.; Waunita Delaney, trustee, Henry Ford Allegiance Health in Jackson, Mich.; Richard Evnen, trustee of Bryan Medical Center in Lincoln, Neb.; Catherine Quencer, trustee, Samaritan Medical Center in Watertown, N.Y.; Fran Roberts, chair of Presbyterian Healthcare Services’ Presbyterian Delivery System Board in Albuquerque, N.M.; Michael Charlton, chair, AtlantiCare in Egg Harbor Township, N.J.; Donna Fraiche, trustee, Woman’s Hospital in Baton Rouge, La.; Scott Hilburn, trustee, Mason General Hospital in Shelton, Wash.; Kevin Nietmann, trustee, Calvert Memorial Hospital in Prince Frederick, Md.; Alan Osumi, M.D., trustee, Cobre Valley Community Hospital in Globe, Ariz.; Frances Owl-Smith, trustee, Cherokee (N.C.) Indian Hospital Authority; Carolyn Scanlan, trustee, Penn Medicine Lancaster (Pa.) General Health; Patrick Shannon, trustee, Mackinac Straits Health System in Saint Ignace, Mich.; Delia Vetter, trustee, Milford (Mass.) Regional Medical Center; and Gene Wenstrom, trustee, Lake Region Healthcare Corporation in Fergus Falls, Minn.        

Contact:         Colin Milligan, (202) 638-5491
                      Marie Johnson, (202) 626-2351

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