BUSINESS PERSONNEL: NAMED MHA TRUSTEE

James W. Wente, Southeast Missouri Hospital administrator, has been elected an at-large trustee with the Missouri Hospital Association Board of Trustees.

He will serve as board member through Dec. 31, 2002.

Wente was first elected to the MHA Board of Trustee in 1994, as a representative of District 6. He has served as board secretary, a member of the executive committee, chairman-elect and from 1997 to 1999, served as chairman of the statewide body.

He has served on a number of MHA committees, including the Bylaws Committee, the Nominating Committee, Finance and Budget Committee and the Energy and Environmental Committee. He was also MHA representative to the medical practice research center ad hoc committee and has served on the MHA Management Services Corp. Board of Directors.

He is vice chairman of the Board of Managers of the Health Alliance of MidAmerica, an affiliation of the Missouri and Kansas Hospital Association. He will assume the chairmanship of that group in 2001.

Wente is a Diplomate of the American College of Healthcare Executives, a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants and Advanced Member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association.