Our Leadership

Senior Leadership Team

Loren Hamel, M.D.
President & Chief Executive Officer

Linda Beushausen, RN
Vice President of Life Transitions and Advance Healthcare Planning at Lakeland HealthCare

Timothy Calhoun
Vice President, Finance & Chief Financial Officer

Ray Cruse
Chief Executive Officer, Vice President Strategy/Business Innovation & CEO Lakeland Community Hospital Watervliet

Laurie Fleming
Vice President, Outpatient and Diagnostic Services

Lowell Hamel, M.D.
Vice President, Medical Affairs & Chief Medical Officer

Dennis Mack
Vice President of Operations

Mary Ann Pater
Vice President, Legal Affairs/Risk Management & Chief Compliance Officer

Norma Tirado
Vice President, Human Resources and Health Information Technology

Warren White
Vice President, Lakeland Physician Practices

Eileen Willits
Vice President, Patient Care Services & Chief Nursing Executive

Office of the Board

Officers

President
Loren Hamel, M.D.

Chairman
Daniel Hopp

Vice Chairman/Treasurer
Jeff Edmunds

Secretary
Terrence Allen

Members
Niels-Erik Andreasen
David Binkley
Laurianne Davis
Beth Dodge
John Froggatt, M.D.
Lynn Gray, MD
Patricia Hall
George Heenan, M.D.
J. Douglas Huggett, D.O.
Michael Mortimore
Kenneth O'Neill, M.D.
Marcus Robinson
Jeffrey Schmidt, D.D.S.
Linda K. Stanley, MD
Wes Stephens
Dennis Thompson, M.D.
Thomas Yeager
Judith Zacha

Emeritus Status:
Mickey Bowman
John Carter, M.D.
Jerry Heppler
William Johnson
Carol Starks
Joseph Wasserman

If you would like to contact our senior leadership team or the office of the board, please call 269-983-8624.