FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Interim RVPs Named in SW IV

Dallas, TX - January 12, 2010 - Two nurse liaisons in the company’s West Division have assumed additional duties as interim Regional Vice Presidents this month.

Jeff Stout, RN, and Kathleen Lieder, RN, are both now serving as interim RVPs in the Southwest IV Region — Stout in Dallas, supporting East Texas Medical Center facilities, and Lieder in Houston overseeing seven client facilities in South Texas. Those seven facilities for which Lieder has charge are Laredo Medical Center, Fort Duncan, Doctor’s, Corpus Christi, Rio Grande, Harlingen Medical and Gulf Coast.

As such, Stout and Lieder share the RVP duties previously covered by Julie Pevehouse, in addition to their nurse liaison duties.

Support for those same facilities is also offered by Regional Medical Officer Mike Pawlowski, MD, West Division Chief Operating Officer Rita Roberts and West Division President Mark Mitchell, DO.

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