Early in 2010, Parkview LaGrange Hospital welcomed several new board members and installed their new board chair.
Jac Price assumed the role of Parkview LaGrange Hospital’s board chairman in January as Joe Pierce completed his five-year term in that role. Price has served as a board member since the hospital became part of Parkview Health in May of 2005. Price is president and CEO of Price’s Laundry and a lifelong resident of LaGrange County.
Three new members were also welcomed to the Parkview LaGrange board of directors: Kevin Lambright, Lisa Booth, MD, and Miroslaw Foltyniak, MD.
Kevin Lambright was born and raised in Shipshewana and has been involved in farming throughout his life. He is the president of Shipshewana Auction, Inc. and of the Trading Place, LLC. Lambright is very actively involved in LaGrange County through his service on the boards of the Shipshewana Retail Merchants Association, the Red Cross of Elkhart/LaGrange Counties, LaGrange County Junior Achievement and the Parkview LaGrange Foundation. He is also a member of the LaGrange County Tax Commission.
Lisa Booth, MD is the president of the medical staff at Parkview LaGrange Hospital and a board certified family physician in private practice in LaGrange County. A graduate of Indiana University School of Medicine, she completed her family practice residency through the Fort Wayne Medical Education Program and served as Chief Resident during her final year there. In addition to her private practice in LaGrange, Booth also provides OB services at the Shipshewana Family Healthcare office one morning a week.
Miroslaw Foltyniak, MD, FACS is the vice president of the hospital’s medical staff. He is board certified in general surgery and a member of the Parkview Physicians’ Group. Foltyniak completed his medical degree at the Silesian Medical Academy in Poland and did his internship and residency in general surgery at the Brooklyn-Caledonian Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, where he served as Chief Resident during his fifth year of residency. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the Indiana State Medical Society.
Parkview LaGrange Hospital is a not-for-profit community hospital and is licensed as a 25-bed critical access hospital to provide acute care services to the people of LaGrange County and surrounding communities. In July of 2008 Parkview LaGrange opened its new, $25 million hospital facility. In addition to the full range of general acute care services offered by Parkview LaGrange, an electronic intensive care unit (eICU) with its eICU robot – a hallmark of all Parkview Health hospitals – has brought another, higher level of care to the people of LaGrange County. Current services include EMS and emergency care; ambulatory and inpatient surgery; endoscopy; medical-surgical care, a swing bed program and maternity. Ancillary and outpatient services offered include a full service laboratory; advanced diagnostic imaging including CT and a fixed MRI unit; rehabilitation therapy; a sleep lab; and physician specialty clinics (including cardiology, gynecology and orthopaedics). Parkview LaGrange is a member of Parkview Health, a family of hospitals and healthcare services covering a 15 county region in northeastern Indiana and western Ohio. With over 190 employees, Parkview LaGrange Hospital's mission is to provide trusted quality care and to improve the health of the communities it serves.