Boerum selected for hospital board

At a special meeting Monday evening, the Sonoma Valley Hospital board unanimously selected Bill Boerum to fill the director’s slot vacated by John MacConaghy, who resigned in January.
Boerum was the manager of the recent, successful campaign for Measure B, the five-year tax of $195 per parcel to help fund the hospital’s operations. Its passage was essential to the hospital’s survival, hospital officials said during the campaign.
Boerum also helped lead the charge against Measure C, the hospital’s failed 2006 effort to build a $148 million hospital on land that the hospital planned to buy from the Leveroni family – an unwilling seller – through eminent domain.
Board members Dick Kirk and Arnold Riebli led the effort to select Boerum from a field of five candidates.
“I’ve seen him work hard… setting aside ideology and bringing people together,” Kirk said.
The other close contenders were Subhash Mishrah, MD, a family-practice physician affiliated with the hospital, and Dick Senn, a resident who supports integrative medicine.
Also applying for the job were Mike Norton, a pharmacist at the hospital, and Lisa Hardy, a Glen Ellen property manager. Both Norton and Hardy ran unsuccessfully for the hospital board in November.
Richard Fogg withdrew his application for the post, Kirk announced, after Sonoma County’s attorney, told Fogg he couldn’t serve on the hospital board and maintain his seat on the county planning commission.