February 13, 2008

Mercy Board of Directors Welcomes Two New Members

Barbara Orzechowski

Diane Werth, M.D.

Mercy Medical Center—Sioux City has announced that Diane Werth, M.D., and Barbara Orzechowski have joined the ministry organization’s board of directors.

Dr. Werth, a retired cardiologist, previously served on the board and was its chair in 2001 and 2002. She is also a member of the boards for Briar Cliff University and the Sioux City Symphony. Werth, who was the Sioux City area’s first female cardiologist, is a member of the American College of Cardiology and the American Society of Echocardiology.

Orzechowski is an attorney in private practice in Sioux City. She is a partner in the Klass Law Firm, L.L.P., and currently serves on the board of governors for the Iowa State Bar Association. She also currently serves on the board of the Siouxland Humane Society, and was previously president of that body. She previously served on the board of directors for the Sioux City Art Center Association and on the board of trustees for the Art Center.

Werth and Orzechowski take the places of Chuck Markham and Regina Roth, who retired from the board in December.

Ynes Oggel, Ph.D, a professor of Spanish at Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, continues to serve as chairperson of Mercy Medical Center’s board in 2008. She became chairperson in January 2007.

Ron Peterson, publisher of the Sioux City Journal, will continue to serve as vice chairperson of Mercy’s board of directors.

Dr. Gregg Galloway, a pathologist in practice with Siouxland Pathology Associates, is the board’s secretary, and Ron Kunkel, CEO and general manager of Woodbury Rural Electric Cooperative, serves as treasurer.

Also serving on Mercy Medical Center’s board in 2008: Milt Avery, a partner in Avery Brothers Sign Company in Sioux City; Dr. Gary Carlton, a general surgeon in practice with Midlands Clinic; Paul Dougherty, Mercy’s president and CEO; Sister Mary Corita Heid, a representative for the Religious Sisters of Mercy; Sister Dolores Preisinger, a health information management consultant; Art Silva, a longtime Sioux City area business leader; Sister Maurita Soukup, vice president of the Iowa Heart Hospital at Mercy Medical Center—Des Moines; Dave Vellinga, president and CEO of Mercy Medical Center—Des Moines, the board’s representative for the Mercy Health Network; and Dr. Patrick Walsh, a urologist in practice with Siouxland Urology Associates in Dakota Dunes, S.D.

The board provides leadership to Mercy Medical Center—Sioux City, Baum Harmon Mercy Hospital in Primghar, Iowa, Oakland Mercy Hospital in Oakland, Neb., and Mercy Medical Services, which directs 37 owned or managed family practice and specialty clinics and two managed hospitals in western Iowa and eastern Nebraska.