Botsford Hospital announces Board leadership appointments

Botsford Hospital announces Board leadership appointments

Farmington Hills, Mich. (September 23, 2014)---Botsford Hospital announces leadership appointments to its Board of Directors. They are:

- Kenneth D. Massey, Ph.D., has been named as Board chair. He has served as a member of the Botsford Hospital Board since 2006 and is a graduate of the Excellence in Governance Fellowship of the Michigan Health & Hospital Association. A lifelong resident of Farmington Hills, Massey is the senior director of venture development at Wayne State University as well as the principal of Ken Massey & Associates, Consultants LLC. He was first elected to the Farmington Hills City Council in 2003 and served the city as Mayor Pro Tem in 2006 and 2010. Massey is a member and past chair of the Farmington Hills/Farmington Emergency Preparedness Commission. He advocates nationally for Farmington Hills as a member of the National League of Cities (NLC) Public Safety and Crime Prevention Steering Committee and served as the organization’s chair in 2012. Massey is the NLC liaison for the Department of Homeland Security Consortium. He also is the chair of Farmington S.A.F.E., a Board member of the Southeast Michigan chapter of the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention and director of the Graham E. Smith Memorial Fund for Suicide Prevention.

- Deborah E. Lamm, MPA, of Franklin, has been named as Board vice-chair. She has served as a member of the Botsford Hospital Board since 2011 and is a graduate of the Excellence in Governance Fellowship of the Michigan Health & Hospital Association. In a 25-year career in the health field, Lamm held positions with The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the United States Conference of Mayors and George Washington University. Additionally, Lamm has served as Board chair for the Denver (CO) Children’s Home, as a Board member of the Wayne State University Center for the Study of Citizenship and as a volunteer for the Detroit Public Schools Reading Corps.

“We are very proud to have such talented and community-driven members lead our hospital’s Board of Directors and count ourselves lucky to have their wealth of knowledge, passion for community service and leadership at Botsford Hospital,” says Paul E. LaCasse, D.O., MPH, president and CEO, Botsford Health Care.

Beaumont Health is a not-for-profit organization formed by Beaumont Health System, Botsford Health Care and Oakwood Healthcare to provide high-quality, efficient, accessible services in a caring environment for southeastern Michigan residents and beyond. As one of Beaumont Health’s eight hospitals, Botsford Hospital is a multi-specialty 330-bed hospital and verified trauma center located in Farmington Hills, Michigan. The campus also houses an imaging center, a comprehensive care cancer center and an extensive medical education program---part of Michigan State University’s Statewide Campus System. Annually, Botsford cares for about 16,000 inpatients and more than 60,000 emergencyand trauma patients with a team of approximately 2,500 employees, 300 volunteers and 600 physicians.

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