PMC – Notice of Annual Meeting/Wyatt Replacement to be Selected

New Line Up for PMC Board of Directors

Ronnie Farmer, newly elected member of the Prowers Medical Center board of directors, will receive his oath of office during the hospital board’s annual meeting tonight, Wednesday, May 23. The meeting agenda lists that an appointment to the board to replace the position left vacant by Andy Wyatt will follow. That individual will also receive the oath of office for their new term.

The annual meeting will see a partial new line-up with the two new board members, as well as the first board meeting for the hospital’s interim Chief Executive Officer, Craig Loveless, who is replacing former CEO James Fairchild. Loveless will serve while a search for a permanent replacement is conducted by the board and QHR, Quorum Health Resources, the hospital management firm. Part of the process of new board membership includes board member orientation as well as a review and discussion of the board’s by-laws. Hospital attorney John Lefferdink will conduct the review and orientation. Lefferdink will also serve for the portion of the meeting dealing with the appointment of a temporary board chairman for the election of officers. The current board chairman is Jan Hall. The board will vote for: chairman, vice-chair, secretary/treasurer and recording secretary, designation of official notification publication and legal counsel.