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UNC appoints Lapsley to Health Care board

By Bill Moss, Published: November 1, 2012

Bill Lapsley, a past chairman of the Pardee Hospital Board of Directors and its representative to the UNC Health Care board, rotated off the Pardee board and thus was due to leave the UNC board.

The folks in Chapel Hill must have been impressed with his service. The UNC Board of Governors appointed him to the UNC Health Care Board for a four-year term, giving Henderson County two representatives on the 23-board board that oversees one of the largest and most powerful health care networks in the state.
"I'm very humbled by that," Lapsley, a civil engineer, said of his appointment by the Board of Governors. "I have enjoyed it and I'm looking forward to continuing to serve on the UNC Health Care board."

As Lapsley stays on, he'll be joined by the Pardee board member the local board appoints as its new representative.
Pardee entered into a management agreement last year with UNC Health Care, joining a growing network of public hospitals around the state affiliated with the flagship university and its sprawling health care campus. The latest to officially join the UNC fold was High Point Regional Hospital.
"I think that's another significant event for UNC Health Care in its efforts to spread out across the state," Lapsley said.
UNC is in the running to add Johnston County's health care system to the fold, Lapsley said. The Triangle-area county system, which includes hospitals in Smithfield and Clinton, invited health care networks to submit proposals for the affiliation. Responding were WakeMed, UNC Health Care, Duke University Health System, Vidant Health in Greenville and Quorum Health Resources, which was its current partner. Johnston County officials selected UNC and two other finalists; the three are scheduled to make presentations next week.