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CEOs Named To Lead Heart & Vascular Institutes at Memorial Hermann Healthcare System

Houston, Texas, May 6, 2005 -- Memorial Hermann Healthcare System has tapped three professionals with exceptional experience to head the new Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institutes. Scheduled for completion over the next 2-1/2 years, the three institutes will greatly expand the system’s ability to deliver advanced care to more area heart patients.

New construction at Memorial Hermann’s Southwest, Memorial City and Texas Medical Center campuses will add almost half-a-million square feet of leading-edge heart-care facilities to the system.

Effective April 25, Mark Hood became assistant vice president and CEO of the Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute – Southwest. When completed late next year, the $65 million facility will be Houston’s first freestanding heart hospital. The seven-story, 200,000-square-foot facility will include five cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology labs, four cardiovascular operating rooms and 45 patient beds with the capacity to expand.

Hood most recently served as CEO of Mercy Hospital Fairfield in Fairfield, Ohio, and previously held the same position at Baylor Medical in Grapevine, Texas, and Baptist Health System of East Tennessee, in Knoxville.

Erin Asprec has been selected to serve as assistant vice president and CEO of Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute – Texas Medical Center. Asprec played a central role in developing the strategic plan for the system’s heart and vascular service line while working as executive liaison to Memorial Hermann Healthcare System President and CEO Dan Wolterman. She also served as director of business development for Memorial Hermann Hospital.

Asprec will oversee the institute’s move to a new, six-story, 165,000-square-foot structure adjacent to Memorial Hermann Hospital’s Cullen Pavilion at the corner of MacGregor and Fannin. When it opens in early 2007, the $57 million facility will house six cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology labs and 116 patient rooms.

Memorial Hermann Memorial City Hospital CEO Wayne Voss will head the third new facility as CEO of Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute – Memorial City. The $35 million, 90,000-square-foot complex will occupy three floors of the hospital’s new East Tower. Slated for completion this fall, it will feature five cardiac catheterization labs, a nine-bed precatheterization holding area and a 20-bed catheterization recovery unit.

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