Assistant Commissioner Named for LDS Hospitals

L. Brent Goates, administrator of LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, has been named assistant commissioner of the Church Health Services Corporation. He will be responsible for corporate planning and management systems for the corporation’s 15 hospitals. Brother Goates, who is a Regional Representative of the Council of the Twelve, has served as LDS Hospital administrator since 1962, and was assistant administrator for nine years prior to that time. The current hospital associate administrator, David B. Wirthlin, has been named the new administrator to succeed Brother Goates.