Parma Community General Hospital’s Board of Directors has chosen its leadership for the coming year. Kent A. Geist (Parma Heights) was re-elected chairman of the Board. Others officers elected are:

• First Vice Chairman – David Nedrich (North Royalton) 
• Second Vice Chairman – Thomas P. O’Donnell (North Royalton)
• Secretary – Joseph Tal (Parma Heights)
• Treasurer – Jack C. Krise Jr. (Parma)
• Assistant Secretary – JoAnn Mason (Parma)
• First Assistant Treasurer – Alex I. Koler (Parma)
• Second Assistant Treasurer – William J. Bishilany (Seven Hills)
• Members-at-Large – Jennifer L. Lasky (Brooklyn Heights) and Jacqueline M. Patton (Brooklyn)

Other members on the Board are: Robert Bartholomew Jr. (Brooklyn Heights); John H. Bundy (Brooklyn); Scott D. Curtis (Seven Hills); Jack P. Marschall (Parma); Sharon Martin (Parma); Samuel W. Pagano, MD (Physician Director); Louis D. Ripepi Jr. (Parma); and Salvatore P. Sidoti, DPM (Physician Director). 

The Board of Directors consists of 18 members. Sixteen of these represent Parma Hospital’s founding communities: Parma, Parma Heights, Seven Hills, North Royalton, Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights. Two physicians also are selected from the Medical Staff to serve on the Board.

Directors reappointed to three-year terms by their respective mayors were: JoAnn Mason and Louis D. Ripepi Jr. (Parma); Joseph Tal (Parma Heights); David Nedrich (North Royalton); and Robert Bartholomew Jr. (Brooklyn Heights).