Ronald Benson, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, has been appointed as the new senior associate for HGA Architects and Engineers. Based in the firm’s Los Angeles office, Benson is a licensed senior project manager with more than 25 years of international and domestic experience.
Serving the firm’s Dallas-Fort Worth office, Kenneth Melton is now the new superintendent for Joeris General Contractor Ltd. With over 34 years of experience as a project superintendent, Melton has built a wide variety of projects, including health care facilities. Known for his focus on project scheduling, budgeting and safety, Melton has worked with numerous clients and owners in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Helen Ryan was recently named the permanent director of nursing for the Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust in Yeovil, England. Now with nearly 20 years of experience and service at this district, Ryan originally joined the team when she took charge of the intensive care unit in 1993. She later on became the nurse consultant responsible for critical care. Ryan also spent six years on Yeovil District Hospital’s board of governors as a staff governor.
Christine Close, RN, BSN, has been appointed to clinical nurse manager of the urgent care center at Oswego Health’s soon-to-be-opened Central Square Medical Center in Oswego, N.Y. With over 14 years of experience in the health care field, Close was initially hired as a staff nurse to work on one of Oswego Hospital’s medical/surgical floors.
Health care industry veteran, Brenda Traweek has been named chief operating officer for the Brookwood Medical Center. Having previously served as vice president of operations and assistant vice president of surgical services, Traweek has worked with Brookwood since 2003. Most recently, she held the position of vice president of the hospital’s patient care services, where she was responsible for the operational and financial management of the nursing division.
Dr. Louis Katz will be the next executive vice president for America’s Blood Centers. An advocate for the blood banking community, he brings 30 years of experience and infectious disease expertise to his new position, where he will assume the role of chief medical officer.
With more than 28 years of experience in hospital, health plan, and health care consulting, James B. Bross will assume the roles of president and chief executive officer, serving Mission Health, in affiliation with Angel Medical Center. Coming from Applied Revenue Analytics in Temple, Texas, he previously served as senior director of client services and led business development strategies specializing in improving hospitals with financial analytics.
Mark Chen has been chosen to represent Heery International as its director of design. Chen will be responsible for managing and revitalizing the firm’s design practice on a unified national basis. Coming to Heery from his own firm, Mark Chen Architect, a design and planning consulting firm, based in New York City, Chen has over 30 years of experience as a designer and planner of commercial, education and health care buildings throughout the U.S.
Mark Chen has been chosen to represent Heery International as its director of design. There, Chen will be responsible for managing and revitalizing the firm’s design practice on a unified national basis. Coming to Heery from his own firm, Mark Chen Architect, a design and planning consulting firm, based in New York City, Chen has over 30 years of experience as a designer and planner of commercial, education and health care buildings throughout the U.S.
South Coast Improvement Company, a provider of construction and renovation services to senior living and health care facilities in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states, named Sean J. Whalen vice president of business development. In his new role, his responsibilities will include building relationships and strategic alliances, overseeing the sales team and expanding the firm’s sales markets.
