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Sam Skura Named President of Baystate Medical Center
SPRINGFIELD — Sam Skura, MPH, MBA, a healthcare professional with more than 25 years of clinical leadership experience, has been named president of Baystate Medical Center and senior vice president of Hospital Operations for Baystate Health. His appointment becomes effective Sept. 12.
In his new role, Skura will join the senior leadership team and serve as a member of the presi- dent’s cabinet, reporting directly to Marion McGowan, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Baystate Health.
Skura has an extensive back- ground in hospital leadership and
most recently served as chief operating officer reporting to the president at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. In previous roles, he served as senior vice president of Ambulatory and Clinical Services and chief administrative officer at BIDMC.
Prior to BIDMC, Skura was vice president of Clinical Operations at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, report- ing to the chief operating officer. He served on the leader- ship team of a combined group practice of more than 500 physicians and a 335-bed inpatient hospital. He also held administrative roles at Cambridge Health Alliance, where he provided oversight to senior leadership for 16 commu- nity health centers and practice sites and a three-campus Emergency Department. He was administrative director for Steward Health Care (formerly Caritas Christi Health Care System) in Boston, where he provided management for
the largest emergency-medicine group in Massachusetts, trending more than 240,000 annual visits. Skura also held managerial roles at Brigham & Women’s Hospital/Partners Healthcare in Boston and Fallon Healthcare System in Worcester.
Skura earned an MBA from the Isenberg School of Man- agement at UMass Amherst, a master’s degree in public health from Boston University, and a bachelor of arts and economics degree from Brandeis University.
involved in architecture for the deaf. In 2010, he joined Steffian Bradley Architects of Boston and Enfield and worked on hospital projects for Baystate Health. He retired in 2015.
Florence Hearing Welcomes Two New Practice Members
FLORENCE — Florence Hearing Health Care (FHHC) recently hired two new team members: Susan Pepin- Phillips, practice manager; and Dr. Cassandra Falvey, audiologist. They join Dr. Jennifer Sowards, audiologist and founder; Dr. Anna Niemi, audiologist; and Robin Verteramo, receptionist.
Pepin-Phillips forged a career in marketing at two local community banks before moving into practice manage- ment at a local dental practice five years ago. She will be responsible for running the business side of the practice, but with her marketing eye, she’ll also be focused on mak- ing sure the brand is represented well in the running of the business.
Falvey came to Florence Hearing from Baystate Health in Palmer. She has always been drawn to the field of com- munication sciences and disorders, earning a bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, in communication sciences
and disorders from the College of Saint Rose in Albany, N.Y. in 2015. She then returned home to Western Mass. and earned her doctorate in audiology at UMass Amherst in 2019. Falvey completed her fourth-year externship at Baystate Wing Hospital and Medical Centers, where she continued to work and serve patients until joining the team at Florence Hearing Health Care. She holds a certificate of clinical competence from the American Speech, Language, and Hearing Assoc.
Baystate Wing Hospital Welcomes Elizabeth Jarry
PALMER — Baystate Wing Hospital recently welcomed nurse practitioner Elizabeth Jarry, CNP to its cardiology practice located at Baystate Wing Hospital.
Jarry earned her master’s degree as a family nurse practitioner and her bachelor’s degree in nursing from American International College. She is currently affiliated
with Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, serving as an advanced practitioner in the cardiology out- patient clinic and stress test lab.
Jarry served in the U.S. Army, where she provided care to U.S. soldiers. She also taught health and oral hygiene in Iraqi villages, assisted medical teams during
mass-casualty situations, and provided ancillary assistance to medical providers in a combat support hospital in Balad, Iraq. She currently serves as clinical faculty for American International College students in the Family Nurse Practi- tioner program.
has steadily been promoted from her initial position as director of Residential Services.
Denette has been promoted to senior vice president of Opera- tions. She began at BFAIR in 2001 as assistant director of Day Habita- tion Services, and, considering
her experience providing services for people with developmental disabilities, her most recent role included senior vice president of Day Services.
Wampler was promoted to vice president of Community Living Services. She began her career at BFAIR in 2003 as assistant director of Residential Services and later took on the roles of director of In- dividual and Family Supports and vice president of Individual and Family Supports while overseeing BFAIR’s Pittsfield office.
Earl Miller Appointed to MHA Board of Directors
SPRINGFIELD — Earl Miller, who heads the town of Amherst’s Department of Community Responders for Equity, Safety and Service (CRESS), has joined the board of directors of the Mental Health Assoc. (MHA).
Miller has an extensive background in recovery services. This past spring, he became the first director of CRESS, a public-safety department that works with Amherst’s Police and Fire departments as well as emergency dispatch to offer alternative options to issues of homelessness, mental health, and other non-criminal calls. It is described on its website as community-based, preventive “safety services in situations that don’t involve violence or serious crime” and designated as a “civilian, unarmed alternative to calls that might otherwise require a response from the Police Department.”
Prior to the CRESS appointment, Miller served as Western Mass. division director of Recovery for the Mas- sachusetts Department of Mental Health. His work in that position included supporting the department’s mission across divisions, planning an annual Trauma and Resilien- cy Symposium and serving as area employment coordina- tor and emergency-management coordinator.
Miller worked previously at the Center for Human Development as coordinator of Peer Roles and as Hamp- den County community coordinator for the Western Massachusetts Recovery Learning Community. The latter position saw Miller operating drop-in centers in Holyoke and Springfield that primarily served those experiencing homelessness and helping develop a continuum of services that enabled the formerly homeless to help others transi- tion to permanent housing.
ETHEL ALTIERY
THERESADENETTE
SAM SKURA
KRISTEN WAMPLER
George Balsley to Chair Trustees
ELIZABETH JARRY
of Willie Ross School for the Deaf
LONGMEADOW — Willie Ross School for the Deaf (WRSD) announced that George Balsley, a longtime member of the school’s board of trustees, has been ap- pointed chair of the board. This marks the first time a deaf individual has served as the chair of the board of trustees in the school’s 55-year history.
Balsley has served on the board for several years. He pre- viously served on the board of the Austine School for the Deaf in Brattleboro, Vt., when Bert Carter was president of
that school. When Carter became president and CEO of Willie Ross, Balsley followed and joined the WRSD board.
Balsley is a native of Washing- ton, D.C. and attended Clarke School for the Deaf in Northamp- ton. He spent his career as a registered architect, beginning at
Boston architectural companies, and in 1987 joined Kuhn Riddle Architects in Amherst. During his career, he became
BFAIR Promotes Ethel Altiery,
Fallon Health Board Welcomes
GEORGE BALSLEY
Theresa Denette, Kristen Wampler
Wanda McClain, Victor Woolridge
NORTH ADAMS — BFAIR announced the promotion of three key staff members — Ethel Altiery, Theresa Denette, and Kristen Wampler — in a reorganization
Altiery has been promoted to chief operating officer. She joined BFAIR in 2000 and, due to her vast knowledge and experience and contribution to the field of human services,
WORCESTER — Fallon Health recently elected two new members, Wanda McClain and Victor Woolridge, to its board of directors.
McClain is an experienced healthcare executive who has spent 25 years promoting public and population health
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