James Cole elected chairman of the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association

Published November 19, 2014 by Robert Powell, III

James B. Cole, president and CEO of  Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, has been elected chairman of the  Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association.

Cole succeeds John L. Fitzgerald, CEO of Inova Fair Oaks Hospital in Fairfax, who remains on the VHHA board of directors as immediate past chairman.

The chairman-elect is Mary N. Mannix, president and CEO of Augusta Health in Fishersville. Robert F. Carrel, president of the HCA Capital Division based in Richmond, is secretary/treasurer.

VHHA represents 110 hospitals and 35 health delivery systems in the commonwealth.