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    Executive Assistant
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Inside This Issue
Volume 14 Issue 2, Spring, 2008

Spring Meeting
Volunteers Conference
Consumer Advocates
Division News
Member News/Regional Happenings
Federal Scene
Interesting Stuff

Member News/Regional Happenings

Brooke Grove Retirement Village made special plans for May 6 - 12, National Nurse Week. The theme “Nurses: Making A Difference in Every Day”. The foundation President Keith Gibb remarked how “immensely proud” of the nursing staff the Village he is.

Congratulations to Brooke Grove’s Rehabilitation & Nursing Center Administrator, Greg Porter, he recently completed and graduated from the Delmarva Leadership & Quality Institute for Long Term Care.

Congratulations to Inova Health System and MedStar Health, both of whom were ranked by Veripan’s annual ranking of top integrated health networks. Top 100 out of more than 580 health systems nationwide.

Walter Reed Army Medical Center marked their 99th anniversary in late April. Army surgeon Maj. William Cline Borden was the brainchild. The new hospital was named after his close friend’s death following an emergency appendectomy, Maj. Walter Reed.