LeeAnn Yang Promoted to Chief Financial Officer at CHC: Creating Healthier Communities
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Senior finance and accounting leader Yang promoted from within
She is a very capable leader who has a keen understanding of the financial strategies that CHC needs to undertake, especially during an extremely challenging operating environment. ALEXANDRIA, Va. (PRWEB) February 24, 2021 CHC: Creating Healthier Communities, a nationwide nonprofit dedicated to addressing the barriers to good health, is proud to announce that LeeAnn Yang, current Financial Controller, has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer as of February 22, 2021 and will assume responsibility for finance, risk management and other administrative functions. LeeAnn becomes a member of the Executive Leadership Team, will report to the CEO Thomas G. Bognanno, and will staff both the Board Finance and the Audit and Risk committees.
From All MedStar Health locations across the region have now changed their policy to allow a support person for patients with disabilities. Molly Riley, File/AP Photo
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MedStar Health is now allowing visitors and support persons for patients with disabilities into its hospitals and ambulatory locations throughout the region following a federal disabilities discrimination complaint.
Due to the pandemic, MedStar Washington Hospital staff was allegedly not allowing visitors or support persons for patients with disabilities, despite a stated policy that people with disabilities could bring in one support person. In September, William King, a 73-year-old with communication-related disabilities, his family, and Disability Rights DC attorneys filed a disabilities discrimination complaint against the health system with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Righ
In 1989, a congenital heart condition called Marfan syndrome hospitalized Cook at just 25 years old. His only chance of survival was a heart transplant.
A fatal motorcycle accident made a heart available, but it was on its way to someone else, when, Cook says, a miracle happened. The heart was a perfect match for him.
“I was literally on the heart-lung bypass machine with no hope for survival at all when this beautiful heart that was scheduled to go somewhere else was turned around in the middle of this trip and given to me to last all these years,” he said.
The gift of life | For 25 years, someone else s heart is beating in his chest
Larry Slagle received a heart transplant in 1995. Without a new heart, doctors say he would not have lived to see 1996. Author: Marcella Robertson Updated: 11:23 AM EST February 4, 2021
WASHINGTON Larry Slagle knew heart issues ran in his family. His father died from heart-related problems at just 62 years old. As an active cyclist living a healthy lifestyle, Slagle says he wasn t too worried about his own heart.
But it was around the same age, doctors diagnosed him with heart failure too. It was hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, an inherited heart disease that causes the heart muscle to thicken, making it harder to pump blood.