NAMED PRESIDENT

PIEDMONT -- Vicki McCrackin, administrator of Clark's Mountain Nursing Center in Piedmont, has been elected president of District 5 of the Missouri Health Care Association (MHCA).

McCrackin has served as administrator of Clark's Mountain center more than three years, and has been a health care professional more than 10 years.

She is active in the MHCA, an organization of long-term care providers in Missouri, which is affiliated with the American Health Care Association.

The Clark's Mountain facility is operated by Americare Systems, Inc., of Sikeston, which operates 19 skilled nursing centers and 11 residential care centers in Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma.