Michael V. Gentry, the senior vice president and chief operating officer of Norfolk-based Sentara Healthcare, has been elected chairman of the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association board of directors.
Also elected as board officers during the association’s spring conference in Williamsburg were: vice chair, Mark H. Merrill, president and CEO of Valley Health System in Winchester, and secretary-treasurer, Dr. Michael P. McDermott, president and CEO of Mary Washington Healthcare in Fredericksburg.
