Healthcare executives Nancy Howell Agee and R. Timothy Rice have been appointed by the American Hospital Association to The Joint Commission's Board of Commissioners for three-year terms beginning January 2010.
Serving as The Joint Commission's governing body, the board consists of 29 voting members, including physicians, administrators, nurses, employers, a labor representative, health plan leaders, quality experts, ethicists, a consumer advocate and educators.
Commissioners serve three-year terms that are renewable for up to three terms.
The board includes representatives from each of The Joint Commission's corporate members: The American Hospital Association, American Medical Association, American College of Physicians, American College of Surgeons and American Dental Association, as well as six public members, one at-large representative of the nursing profession and, as an ex-officio member, Mark R. Chassin, MD, MPP, MPH, president of The Joint Commission.
Agee is the chief operating officer and executive vice president for the Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, Va. Her primary responsibility is serving as chief executive officer of Carilion Medical Center, an 825-bed tertiary care teaching hospital which serves as one of five Level I Trauma Centers in Virginia, and co-leading the development of an organized medical group.
She was appointed by the governor of Virginia to the Radford University Board of Visitors and currently chairs the Board of the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association and the Foundation of Roanoke Valley. She earned an undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia, received a Master's degree from Emory University and participated in postgraduate studies at Noprthwestern University's Kellogg School of Business.
Rice, has served as president and chief executive officer of the Moses Cone Health System in Greensboro, N.C., since 2004. He earned a bachelor of science in pharmacy from Washington State University and a Master's in health administration from Duke University.
He is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives and chairman-elect of the board of directors of the North Carolina Hospital Association. He is active in the community, serving as a board chairman for the Greensboro Partnership, the Central Atlantic VHA Board and the United Way of Greensboro Campaign.