ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, May 4, 1996 TAG: 9605060049
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: SANDRA BROWN KELLY
Lewis-Gale Medical Center's president announced that the medical director and two employees of the Salem cancer center team will oversee the cancer center under construction at Columbia Pulaski Community Hospital.
Dr. David Randolph, medical director of the radiation oncology department at Lewis-Gale, will be the medical director at Pulaski. Lewis-Gale employees, Catherine Tasselli, director of outpatient oncology, and Robert Glossner, a medical physicist, will hold the same positions there.
Tasselli, a radiology technologist, has been with Lewis-Gale since 1988. Glossner was hired in October from a Scranton, Pa., hospital that had high-dose radiation equipment. A medical physicist is part of the team required to operate the new machine. Glossner also is responsible for all radiation safety.
The Pulaski construction is expected to be completed in November.
Also in November, the Salem facility is scheduled to receive a new General Electric linear accelerator, a piece of equipment that delivers external radiation beams.
Lewis-Gale's President Bill Downey said the acquisition of "leading edge" equipment is part of the growth of the Columbia system in the area and he expects to serve more patients locally as a result.
In addition to Lewis-Gale Medical Center and Pulaski Community, Columbia owns Alleghany Regional Hospital in Low Moor, Columbia Montgomery Regional Hospital in Blacksburg, Clinch Valley Medical Center in Richlands, and St. Luke's Hospital in Bluefield, W.Va.
Last week, Terri Reynolds Rush, who has been director of marketing and community relations at Lewis-Gale for the past three and a half years, was made regional marketing director for the Columbia Southwest Virginia Hospital Network. The network is made up of the five Southwest Virginia hospitals.
Rush's appointment cements plans for the marketing of the hospitals as a group, Downey said. She also will coordinate marketing plans with St. Luke's in Bluefield.
Rush is a graduate of Radford University and has a master of science degree in health administration from Virginia Commonwealth University's Medical College of Virginia.
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