Edwards Sees Changes at CMMC

              ca 1972 Edwards Sees Changes at CMMC
By Margaret Martin
Times Medical Writer
The director of Confederate Memorial
M e d i c a l Center (CMMC) won't be
a p p o i n t e d until the new board of
directors is named, Gov.-elect Edwin
Edwards told The Shreveport Times
Friday morning.
There is widespread interest in the
future of Confederate because it is the
teaching hospital for Louisiana State
University Medical School at Shreveport.
Although there has been some specu-lation
that the present administration,
Dr. Edgar Galloway who will be 78 this
month, will retire, Galloway said earlier
"I can't comment on what might happen
in the future."
The Confederate board is one of many
boards which Serve at the pleasure of
the governor. Terms of its members run
concurrent with the term of the gover-nor.
Edwards in an interview said that the
list of 13 Confederate board members is
not complete.
Some New Faces Promised
There will be some new faces on the
board and some reappointments, the
incoming governor said.
Edwards said he will meet with the
new board and will follow its recommen-dation
on the hospital director appoint-ment.
The board makes policy for the
hospital, but there is a possibility this
could change.
In an earlier statement, Edwards said
that hospital boards are not high on his
list of priorities "because they will be one
of the first areas where we are going to
effect the consolidation changes . . . we
are working on a consolidation plan
which I think is going to be very
dramatic."
Newly elected black legislator Alp-honse
Jackson Jr. has said that the
I governor has promised to name at least
two Negroes to the board. They would be
la first in the board's history, although
fnost of the hospital's patients are black.
Edwards has also indicated that he
will confer with other members of the
Northwest Louisiana legislative delega-tion
before making any appointments.
The present chairman of the board is
T. O. .Lanford. He is appointed by the
governor from a list of three names
submitted by the council member from
the 4th Congressional District of t h e
Louisiana Medical Society.
Dr. J. Woodfin Wilson of Shreveport is
the council member, but says the
nominees have not been selected.
Lanford Has No Comment
And Lanford will not comment on
whether he would accept another term.
Dr. Edgar Galloway
. . . board comes first
Vice chairman of the board is
Shreveport businessman Tony Pernici.
Members of the board include five
from Caddo Parish, and one each from
Bienville, Bossier, Claiborne, DeSoto,
Red River and Webster parishes.
Other board members from Caddo
Parish are Dr. Charles L. Black, Gen.
Spencer Hardy, Dr. A. J. Mullen, Dr.
James W. Tucker.
Representing other parishes are Dr.
J. D. Huckaby, Red River; Roger Silver,
DeSoto; Dr. S. A. Tatum, Claiborne;
W. H. (Tommy) Thompson, Webster, and
Jack Clayton, Bossier.
There is no one presently on the board
representing Bienville Parish and one
Caddo representative who died has not
been replaced.
Galloway, who was honored last year
for 50 years in medicine, makes an
annual salary of $23,200.
Under law, the 13-man board of
directors is appointed by the board, but
the governor has the power to name
another board if the director isn't a man
he wants.
The bylaws of the hospital state that
the director should be "preferably a
trained hospital administrator, who shall
be a medical doctor. . ."
Among names which have cropped up
as possible contenders for the director-ship
are Dr. Marion Hargrove, head of
the Department of Medicine for
Confederate and the medical school, and
Dr. Ike Muslow, now on the staff at
Willis-Knighton Memorial Hospital, but
former head of the Department of
Medicine at Confederate.
Two Prospects Not Talkative
Hargrove said that he was "surprised
and very flattered," but would not
discuss the matter further.
Muslow said with a laugh, "This is
the first time I've heard that."
Galloway was first appointed superin-tendent
of the old Charity Hospital a
forerunner to Confederate; in 1940, under
Gov. Sam Jones' administration. He
c o n t i n u e d to serve under the first
administration of Gov. Jimmie H. Davis
from 1944 to 1948.
Gov. Earl K. Long replaced him with
Dr. W. S. Harmon in 1948 and again in
1956. Galloway was reappointed again in
1961 and has sensed continuously until
the present time.
He also served a two year stint from
1954 to 1956 when he replaced Dr. C. S.
Sentell of Minden who resigned following
a bitter dispute over whether or not he
should be allowed to continue the
practice of surgery while serving as
director of the hospital.