CHILDREN’S HEALTH SYSTEM NAMES NEW BOARD OF TRUSTEES CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS
01/13/2010
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| Pictured left to right are Phillip McWane, Gwaltney McCollum and Raymond Harbert. McWane is the recently-appointed Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees for Children's Health System, McCollum is outgoing Chairman and Harbert is the new Chairman. Behind them is the construction site of the hospital's $400 million expansion project that is expected to be completed by mid-2012. |
BIRMINGHAM (Jan. 11, 2010) - Raymond J. Harbert, Chairman and CEO of Harbert Management Corporation, has been named Chairman of the Board of Trustees for Children's Health System for 2010 and 2011. He succeeds Gwaltney McCollum who served as Chairman in 2008 and 2009.
"Never in our almost 100-year history has Children's had a greater need for outstanding leadership from its Board of Trustees and that is exactly what we are getting at this critical time," said Mike Warren, president and CEO of Children's Health System. Children's Hospital is currently constructing a $400-million expansion facility that will house more than 325 beds and employ approximately 4,000 people when it opens in 2012.
A graduate of Auburn University, Harbert serves on his alma mater's Board of Trustees, the State of Alabama Trust Fund and the Robert Meyer Foundation. He is a member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee for Birmingham Business Alliance. He also serves as a member of the President's Advisory Board of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), the Benefactors Society Board for The College Foundation for the University of Virginia and the Alabama Business Hall of Fame Nominating Committee. Harbert is a past member of Leadership Alabama, Young Presidents' Organization and a former Alabama State Chairman for YPO. He has been a Children's Hospital trustee since 2001.
C. Phillip McWane, Chairman of McWane, Inc., is the newly appointed Vice Chairman of the Children's Board of Trustees and will succeed Harbert in 2012. The Auburn University graduate has served on the hospital's Board since 1985. He also serves on the Boards of McWane, Inc., Sloss Furnaces Foundation and The McWane Science Center.
Four new members have been elected to Children's Board of Trustees. They are: Richard J. Bielen is Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Protective Life, Inc. He earned both a bachelor's and master's degree from New York University. He is a certified public accountant and sits on the boards of The United Way of Central Alabama, The Alabama Trust Fund, The McWane Science Center and Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation.
David M. Fields, Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer for Bayer Properties, earned his undergraduate degree from Yale University and his law degree from Harvard School of Law. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the United Way of Central Alabama, the Alabama Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the Birmingham Chapter of Rotary International, the Bell Center for Early Intervention Programs, and Operation New Birmingham. He also is a member of the Council of Directors for the UAB School of Business, a graduate of Leadership Birmingham, Class of 2009 and serves on the Alumni Board of Directors of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Fields also served as a founding trustee of Sage Hill School, Orange County California's first independent non-denominational high school, President of the Orange County Chapter of 100 Black Men of America and a member of its Atlanta-based national board, and Chair of the Dean's Advisory Counsel for the School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine.
John O. Hudson, III, is an attorney who serves as Senior Vice President of Corporate Diversity and Public Affairs for Regions Financial Corporation. He holds a bachelor's degree from Alabama A&M University and graduated cum laude from Miles College School of Law. He completed post-graduate studies at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Hudson is a member of the board of directors of the Birmingham Museum of Art, Jefferson State Community College Foundation and the Birmingham Jefferson Film Commission. He is also a member of the Newcomen Society of Alabama and serves on the board of trustees for both Miles College and Miles College School of Law.
Sid McAnnally is Vice President for External Affairs for Energen Corporation. He is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of Alabama School of Law. McAnnally is a member of the Board of Directors of The Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama and The Nature Conservancy of Alabama. He chairs the Board of Leadership Alabama.
Children's Health System is a statewide network of pediatric primary care practices, outpatient clinics, outpatient surgery and diagnostic centers and its flagship, the Children's Hospital of Alabama. Located in Birmingham, Children's Hospital is one of only about 45 freestanding acute care hospitals of its kind in the nation and the only hospital in Alabama dedicated solely to the care and treatment of children. It is the 10th busiest pediatric medical center in the United States. Licensed for 275 beds, Children's is a private, not-for-profit hospital governed by a volunteer board of trustees. The hospital was recently recognized for the excellence of its nursing care by achieving Magnet designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Children's will celebrate its centennial anniversary in 2011. For more information, visit www.chsys.org.
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