The Board elected Carlos Naudon, Trustee at The Brooklyn Hospital Center, as Chairman, effective January 1.

The Board also elected the following officers to serve one-year terms:

• Vice Chair–Steven Albertalli, President, Board of Directors, Corning Hospital;
• Secretary/Treasurer–Lise Hunter, Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation (CNR) Health Care Network, Inc., Brooklyn; and
• Immediate Past Chair–C. William Brown, Trustee, University of Rochester Medical Center and Strong Partners Health System.

Re-elected to the Board for three-year terms that began January 1 are:

• Ronald Benjamin, Vice Chairman/Treasurer of the Board of Trustees, Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center;
• Judith Foster, Trustee, Samaritan Health System, Watertown;
• John J. Hart, Jr., Trustee, Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center;
• Richard H. Hawks, Jr., Chairperson of the Board, F. F. Thompson Continuing Care Center, Canandaigua;
• John Lane, Trustee, Winthrop-South Nassau University Health System, Melville;
• Mary Ellen Foster McEvily, Trustee, St. Vincent’s Midtown Hospital, Manhattan; and
• Dawn Meland, Trustee, Medina Memorial Health Care System.

The Board of Governors elected the following trustees to three-year terms that began January 1:

• Peter J. Hamilton, Trustee, Bassett Healthcare, Cooperstown, and Chairman of the Board, O’Connor Hospital, Delhi; and
• John B. Robinson, Jr., Trustee, Albany Medical Center Hospital.

The Board honored the following for their services:

• Robert Dufort, Trustee at Hudson Valley Hospital Center, Cortlandt Manor, and
• Robert Peck, Treasurer of the Board, Northeast Health/Albany Memorial and Samaritan Hospitals, Troy.

Healthcare Trustees of New York State is a not-for-profit membership organization dedicated to strengthening the governance of New York’s non-profit and public health care facilities. HTNYS is governed by a board of 26 trustees from health care facilities across the state and is an affiliate of the Healthcare Association of New York State.