The Annual Meeting of the Southern Vermont Health Services Corporation and its subsidiary, Brattleboro Memorial Hospital (BMH) held on November 14, 2014 featured special guests, key topics, and various recognitions.
Keynote speaker Dr. Karen Hein, Founding Member, Vermont Green Mountain Care Board and Adjunct Professor, Dept. Community & Family Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, discussed the evolution of the US health care delivery system and the population health approach to improving the health of communities.
Chair of the Board of Directors Peter Carvell, a commercial loan officer at Brattleboro Savings and Loan introduced two newly elected officers of the Board: William Daley of Brattleboro, VT who is the President/CEO of The Vermont Country Deli and Michael Mandracchia of Jacksonville, VT, an Investment Advisor at The Richards Group.
“We are happy to welcome these two outstanding members of our community to our Board of Directors”, said Peter Carvell, Chairman of the Board.” Their experience, talent, expertise, and commitment will be a wonderful addition to our current membership of exceptional individuals.”
Several new Corporators were also elected during the meeting: John and Karen Abel of East Dummerston, VT; Rob Pattison of Vernon, VT and Alexander Shriver of Brattleboro, VT.
Special recognition was given to John Meyer and Ben Taggard for their years of dedicated service to the BMH Board of Directors. Both men’s terms expired on October 1, 2014.
