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For Hood General HospitalCounty Hires Administratorby ROGER ENLOW HCN NEWS EDITORJoe Langford, 30, hospital administrator at Ranger General Hospital, was named Hood General Hospital Administrator during a called session by the County Commissioners Friday afternoon.Langford will assume duties at Hood General on September 6.The commissioners interviewed two men for the position Wednesday night, after narrowing down the elite field. The new administrator was officially announced about 1:05 p.m. Friday in the County Judge Milton Meyer’s office in the courthouse.A screening committee was selected about four weeks ago to screen applicants, after hospital head B.C. Hamilton submitted hisresignation.When Langford came to Ranger Genera] Hospital in May 1974, the Medicare offices in Austin and Baltimore, Md., had condemned the old hospital and resented Ranger due to the politicalpressure made by Congressman Omar Burleson in wavering the accreditation of the hospital until the new hospital was completed. Langford, in his resume, said that the hospital has moved into the new facility and since his administration, the hospital was back in good standing with theJoe Langford*****Pirates Zap Bulls In First Scrimmage*****Medicare after having been approved for three consecutiveyears.An L.V.N. Training Program coordinated with Ranger College and a joint program with Tarleton foi training registered nurses are two programs Langford executed while in Ranger.fXiring his administration, he has also been approved for two grants by the Emergency Medical Services Program with the state. The first grant was for radio communications equipment including pagers for the doctors and the second grant approved was for an ambulance for the hospital.This past year. Langford was accepted into the American College of Hospital Administrators as a “Nominee.” He was also iioriored in May by Iris colleagues by being elected as Chairman of District VI 4 (A) division of the Texas Hospital Association which represents some 75 to 80 hospitals.Langford's work experience in administration began in' September 1970 at the Austin State Hospital.Langford graduated from Breck-/ enridge High School in 1965, tlyen graduated from Ranger Junior College in 1967 with an Associate of Arts Degree. He graduated with a B.S. Degree in Industrial Arts at North Texas State in 1969.He is married and has two children.Just like the cool breeze whichThe score was set up by the
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Hood County News
Granbury, Texas, US
Sun, Aug 21, 1977
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