New Memorial Board Of Trustees Selected

A new Memorial Health System Board of Trustees was selected on Friday morning.

In a special meeting, City Council selected seven new board members and two alternates. The following people have been named board members:

Curtis Brown: Senior Vice-president of UBS Financial Services Debby Chandle: CEO of Colorado Springs Health Partners Dirk Draper: Vice-president of CH2M HILL and area manager for the Colorado Springs Office Fred Veitch:Vice-president of Commercial Development at Nor’Wood Development Group Jan Weiland: Vice-president of Investments at the Cascade Investments Group Jim Johnson: President and CEO of GE Johnson Construction Company Marcy Morrison: former Manitou Springs Mayor Doug Stimple and Steven Gold are alternates.

The board is responsible for day-to-day operations of Memorial Health System. City Council President says the board was selected based on their community involvement.

On Wednesday, City Council gave 10 out of 11 board members an ultimatum to either resign by 5 p.m. or be fired. Council says it received one letter of resignation and removed the remaining trustees who did not voluntarily resign.

After Friday’s meeting Memorial Health Systems interim Mike Scialdone released the following statement:

“On behalf of Memorial Health System, I would like to thank City Council for their work on what I know has been a very difficult issue. Memorial looks forward to working with the new Board of Trustees during what is a very exciting time for our health system and community. On behalf of the associates, we also look forward to putting the noise and distractions behind us and focusing our community on what we are about, and that is great patient care.”