– Mission Hospital’s 700-member medical staff has elected Dr. Alan Baumgarten chief of staff and Dr. William Hathaway as vice chief of staff.
Baumgarten is a member of the Asheville Family Health Center specializing in family practice and nutritional medicine. He was elected vice chief of staff at Mission in 2007.
Hathaway is a cardiologist and has been on the medical staff at Mission since 1999. He serves on the quality committee of the board of directors of Mission Health System as cardiology service line leader for heart services and as medical director of the Mission cardiac catheterization laboratory.
The elected positions are a four-year commitment, with the vice chief of staff elected to succeed as chief of staff, and each position serving two years.