The Southwest Louisiana Hospital Association, which operates as Lake Charles Memorial Hospital Lake Charles
“These healthcare advocates fulfill their fiduciary roles by sitting on compliance, audit, finance and compensation committees,” said Larry Graham, Memorial’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “These committees are subject to external reviews by accounting firms, as well as audits by state and federal agencies and bodies like The Joint Commission that review the actual delivery of patient care.”
Installed during the board’s annual meeting, the newly elected officers and directors are:
Chairman Philip Earhart
President Southwest Louisiana, Business 1st Bank
Chairman Elect/
Vice Chairman Ulysses Gene Thibodeaux
Judge, State Appellate Court
Immediate Past Chairman Glenn Pumpelly
President & Chief Executive Officer, Pumpelly Oil Company, Inc.
Treasurer Charles Whitson
Senior Vice President-Finance, Memorial Hospital
President/
Assistant Secretary Larry M. Graham
President/Chief Executive Officer, Memorial Hospital
Medical Staff President Thomas Strong, MD,
Surgical Associates of Southwest Louisiana
Immediate Past
Medical Staff President Manley Jordan, MD
Pulmonary Associates of Southwest Louisiana
Medical Staff
President-Elect Brian Clements, MD
Internal Medicine Clinic of Lake Charles
Trustees Denise Emerson Rau
President, Rau Financial Group
Thomas B. Shearman
Publisher, Lake Charles
Carl Shetler
Owner, Shetler Lincoln - Mercury, LTD
Louis Todd, Sr.
President, Todd & Associates, LLC
David Wallace, MD
Children’s Clinic of Southwest Louisiana
Medical Director/Corporate
Compliance Officer Kevin Mocklin, MD
Legal Counsel John Bradford, Esq.
Stockwell, Sievert, Viccellio, Clements & Shaddock