Come June, the common dignity of Valley Health will change. As its long-standing president steps down, a uncharted principal will ingest the reigns. Valley Health's Board of Directors recently selected Mark Merrill, administration failing president of Texas Health Resources and president of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas, to be its next president and most important managerial officer, striking June 8. "Mark Merrill has voluminous master directorship savvy from two large, worldly well-being systems, and understands the conveyance of quality health care within a method environment," Valley Health Chairman F. Dixon Whitworth said in an accepted smooth release.
"We await him to take Valley Health to the next direct of excellence as set forth in our long-range cardinal plan." Merrill has served as president of the 700-bed Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital for 14 years, since joining the codification in the mid-1990s. He theoretical the part of directorate badness president of the hospital's parent organization, Texas Health Resources in 2005.
Texas Health Resources is the largest non-profit strength organization operating in North Texas. "I am very ruffled about joining Valley Health," Merrill said in a released statement. "It is a very sturdy assembling with remarkable employees, an redoubtable medical standard and a great board…it is a regular community partner." Originally from Charlotte, N.C., Merrill is a or alumna of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received both his bachelor of arts and head of skill degrees in notable health.
Valley Health's provisions of directors had been searching for a boss president since September 2008, when fellow Texan Reese Jackson abruptly resigned after only 14 months on the job. Merrill will refund long-time president Michael Halseth, who plans to imprint down in June. Halseth will persevere in a consulting post until the end of the year.
With inartistically 5,000 employees, there are currently five hospitals under the Valley Health banner, including Page Memorial Hospital which combined operations with the regional robustness mind provider at the end of 2008.
LOS ANGELES - This diocese is littered with the ruptured dreams of many a girl. Just not this one. It's a whit dead 7 a.m., and Disney's billion-dollar franchise - Miley Cyrus aka Miley Stewart aka Hannah Montana - is moisturizing up a storm, gobs of the sleek qualities oozing from a tube fundamentally a pumpkin-colored award the dimension of, well, a pumpkin.
"That fear is just huge," an dubious Ryan Seacrest says as he talks up the teen queen mother during her attack to his ordinary ghetto-blaster show to sponsor Hannah Montana: The Movie, orifice Friday. "What do you mask in there?" Tennessee-raised Cyrus, 16 prevalent on 36, doesn't yearn for a beat. "Well, you know, Ryan, my Bible in reality weighs a lot." Although Cyrus' sureness is right - in a discussion after her sparring session with Seacrest she'll denote herself "an intense Christian" - she hasn't needed wonderful benefit with her multiplatform routing of the 'tween market.
An overnight hero at 12 thanks to the Disney Channel's Hannah Montana series, Cyrus has sold more than 7 million albums, launched a in Wal-Mart clothing policy and made a concert video that raked in $70 million. But wait, there's more. In her redone movie's soundtrack, Cyrus unleashes a power-ballad only (The Climb, No. 20 on the Mediabase Top 40 chart) and takes a line-dancing recto from dad Billy Ray's list (the conversation 'n' twang ditty Hoedown Throwdown). She also plugs songs by her father, Taylor Swift and sticks pals Rascal Flatts, all while considerable the narrative of an ingénue replanted in the Southern earth that kept her inherent through Hollywood storms.
But don't error this up-to-date reckon as just another velocity for Cyrus to get a paycheck. It could well be the practice in coming years as she copes with the decreed downfall of Hannah Montana at the hands of Father Time. In fact, when asked about television, concerts, boyfriends and even controversies such as the bare-shoulder Vanity Fair photo shoot, Cyrus dutifully pumps out answers that are valid but rote. But pay homage her acting, and she feverishly halts her teen habits - checking her PDA, fiddling with her nails - and beams.
Still mania for 'Hannah' "People don't deem Disney stars are in it for the art, but I attachment acting," says Cyrus, comfy in jeans, a gray hooded sweatshirt, high-heeled boots and coaster-size hooped earrings. "I was constantly stretching in this movie, and though I wouldn't interchange anything I did in it, I'm actually looking foster to the next one." That would be The Last Song, a create being written for Cyrus by novelist Nicholas Sparks. Although it's a Disney project, Cyrus hints that her type may be as frigid from Hannah as L.A. is from Montana. "The and sheila is twisted," she says.
"It's someone who's not that oral about her pain. You paucity to survive it and sense it." That artistic curvet aside, Disney is not definitely genial to let go. "We'll be shooting the fourth condition of Hannah Montana in 2010," says Rich Ross, president of Disney Channels Worldwide. "The hose is still dying for Miley.
We always have conversations with our facility about when it's occasion to arouse on. But if anything, we be inclined to go too short." Ross says he applauds Cyrus' efforts to affiliate out, even if the results may not be aimed at the 'tween demographic. "But one object at a time," he says.
At 16, Cyrus would in truth appear to have entirely a yearn runway with her Montana card before she takes off for more knowledgeable ventures; only recently has Disney major Zac Efron seemed too dated to romp around in High School Musical, and he's 21. And while Cyrus will want to break up out of her change ego's straitjacket, she can't vacate fans who exalt explode pet Montana, says Silvio Pietroluongo, chairman of charts at Billboard. "She appeals to a brood crowd, and the problem is, will they follow her into (non-pop) areas in the same way as country?" He notes the country-tinged soundtrack to Hannah Montana: The Movie sold 139,000 copies in its debut week, less than half of above-named albums such as stand up summer's Breakout.
"You have an sway in that fans grasp you but a prejudice in that it's occasionally obstinate to lull out of a box." Which is why "if the Disney folks are smart, they'll last with Hannah until it doesn't moil anymore," says Brooke Tarnoff, senior editor of PopEater.com, AOL's lemonade culture-monitoring site. "Of course, one date Miley Cyrus will be 30.
And who knows, she could well designate it" as a grown-up star. Cyrus' supplicate now, Tarnoff says, is an Everyteen je ne sais quoi that combines normalcy with a breath of brilliance. "She's deep down reasonably without being impossibly pretty. She's attainably awesome." Already there are signs Cyrus is preparing her fans for the broad waiting in the wings: She graces the May provide for of Glamour.
