NAHSE chapter honors 14 health care leaders
The National Association of Health Services Executives’ Washington Metropolitan Area Chapter Sept. 13 14 health care leaders for their contributions to the field. The honorees were: Deborah Addo, CEO of Inova Loudoun Hospital, Leesburg, Va.; Rawle Andrews Jr., regional vice president of AARP; Roslyn Brock, vice president of advocacy and government relations at Bon Secours Health System, Marriottsville, Md.; Norvell V. Coots, M.D., president and CEO of Holy Cross Health, Silver Spring, Md., and president and CEO of the Maryland region of Trinity Health; Patricia Cloonan, dean of the School of Nursing and Health Studies at Georgetown University; Terry Forde, president and CEO of Adventist HealthCare, Gaithersburg, Md.; Antoinette Hardy-Waller, CEO of The Leverage Network; George A. Jones, CEO of Bread for the City, Washington, D.C.; Sister Carol Keehan, president and CEO of Catholic Health Association of the United States; LaQuandra Nesbitt, M.D., director of the District of Columbia Department of Health; Vivian W. Pinn, M.D., inaugural director of the National Institutes of Health's Office of Research on Women's Health; Dennis W. Pullin, president and CEO of Virtua Health System,Marlton, N.J.; Skip Spriggs, president and CEO of The Executive Leadership Council; and K. Singh Taneja, COO of St. Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, D.C.