AHA names Rural Hospital Leadership Team Award winner, finalists

Bolivar (Tenn.) General Hospital and its CEO, Ruby Kirby, will receive the AHA’s 2022 Rural Hospital Leadership Team Award at the Rural Health Care Leadership Conference Feb. 19-22 in San Antonio. The award recognizes small or rural hospital leaders who guide their hospital and community through change and innovation. AHA also will honor New Hampshire’s Cheshire Medical Center and its CEO, Don Caruso, M.D.; and Oregon’s Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital and Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital and their CEO, Lesley Ogden, M.D., as award finalists.
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