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| Dave Ebertz Returns to CCMH board of trustees. |
By JEREMY GOLDMEIER, News-Record Writer jgoldmeier@gillettenewsrecord.net
David Ebertz’s tenacity paid off Monday, as Campbell County Memorial Hospital trustees voted him in as their newest member.In June, Ebertz was one of six people to interview for a vacated seat. The trustees ended up selecting Blaine Geer, and encouraged the other candidates to try again.
Ebertz gave it another shot in the November elections, running as one of four candidates for a four-year term on the board. He wound up as the odd man out behind Joe Hallock, Dr. Alan Mitchell and Brook Bahnson. Ebertz said afterward that it had been a tough loss.
But scarcely had the dust settled from the elections when Dr. Monica Morman, who is on a medical fellowship in Boston, resigned her trustee seat. Ebertz tried again.
After interviewing him and fellow applicant Linda Wegher on Monday evening, trustees decided Ebertz, 62, was the best candidate for the job. The two hopefuls had to field questions ranging from the future of Pioneer Manor to their personal histories in Gillette.
Ebertz has lived in town since 1975, when he came to Campbell County with the Wyoming Human Services Project. He only intended to stay a year or so before moving on, but wound up becoming a fixture in local politics. He’s previously sat on the City Council and the county’s public land board, now serves on the Gillette College advisory board, and acts as treasurer at the Campbell County Healthcare Foundation. What’s more, he also sat on the hospital board from January to November 2006.
Now, Ebertz will have to reacquaint himself with hospital operations. Things have grown bigger and more complex in the two years since he left, Ebertz says. He ticked off the big issues facing the hospital one after the next: an $85 million expansion, the dicey politics of physician recruitment, and “maybe even some things that I don’t know about.”
He’ll be visiting with hospital CEO Bob Morasko in the coming weeks, boning up for the next full trustees meeting on Jan. 22.
For her part, Wegher plans to continue looking for an avenue into public service. She’s only been in town for two and a half years, but has already made a couple of attempts to join the hospital board, as well as an aborted run for City Council. Having recently retired from risk management, Wegher, 59, wants to find a new way to stay involved in the community.
“It has to be the right fit,” Wegher said.
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