Hospital CEO Elected to Council for Small Hospitals

JERSEY SHORE—Jersey Shore Hospital President and CEO Carey W. Plummer was recently elected to the executive committee for the Pennsylvania Council for Small Hospitals.

The Council for Small Hospitals is a committee devised of small-hospital administrators from Pennsylvania, who serve as liaisons for hospital and health system issues. The Council is set up through the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP).

According to the bylaws, the Council has the objective of promoting the understanding, interest and support of small hospitals, provides a forum for discussion regarding small hospitals, and assists HAP in promoting appropriate legislation, regulation and reimbursement for these hospitals.

The Council consists of 66 member hospitals. Membership is available to acute/general medical institutions that are members of HAP and have less than 150 beds and/or fewer than 5,000 admissions per year.

Plummer will serve on this committee for three years. The term is effective immediately.

Topics for the Council’s 2010 meetings may include issues pertaining to the following: patient and employee satisfaction, physician practice integration, Department of Health survey variances and other pertinent concerns.

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