Turton Elected Chair of NBH Board of Trustees
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| Dr. Arthur Turton |
Turton is a recently retired, board-certified urologist who practiced with Associates in Urology and more recently with Urological Services of the Berkshires, serving patients in the Northern Berkshire region since 1979. After graduating from Harvard University, he earned his medical degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and served his internship and residency in urology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. As a former member of the NARH and BMC Medical Staffs, Turton has served on the Infection Control and Ethics Committees at North Adams Regional Hospital. He has been a trustee at Northern Berkshire Healthcare since 2005.
Turton thanked outgoing Board chairman Bruce Grinnell of Williamstown. “Bruce led us admirably through the initial stages of the substantial changes we find ourselves in,” he said. “He was also instrumental in the success of our capital campaign several years ago raising nearly 12 million dollars for vital reconstruction at our hospital.”
“We are being required to abandon our old system of producing more volume of care that used to result in more dollars for our system,” said Turton. “Instead, we are now asked to produce more value. This means better quality care at lower cost. Interestingly, studies show that overall better quality care does not, in fact, cost more, but costs less. The savings occur in better outcomes, fewer complications, fewer admissions and readmissions and fewer ER visits.”
 Dr. Susan Yates
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Corporators of Northern Berkshire Healthcare also elected Dr. Susan Yates to the NBH Board of Trustees at the NBH annual meeting. Re-elected to the board were Julia Bolton, Stephen Fix, Richard Jette, and doctors Erwin Stuebner and Arthur Turton. Also joining the Board recently was Bill Frado Jr., of Williamstown, who was appointed by the board to fill an unexpired term.
Dr. Yates, an obstetrician/gynecologist with Northern Berkshire OB/GYN, joined the NARH Medical Staff in 1981. She earned her medical degree from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and is board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology. During her time in Northern Berkshire, Dr. Yates has served as President of the Medical Staff at NARH, a member of the Medical Executive Committee, as chairman of the Department of Maternal/Newborn Medicine, and on several other hospital and board committees.
 Bill Frado
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Frado and Yates join NBH Trustees Jane Allen, Ellen Bernstein, Julia Bolton, Jonathan Cluett, MD, Stephen Fix, Bill Greenwald, Bruce Grinnell, Richard Jette, Bryon Sherman, doctors Win Stuebner and Arthur Turton, Martha Storey, and NARH Medical Staff President Dr. Jeffrey Bath.
Northern Berkshire Healthcare is the parent corporation of North Adams Regional Hospital, REACH for Community Health, the Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice of Northern Berkshire, Northern Berkshire Family Medicine, Northern Berkshire Obstetrics & Gynecology, Northern Berkshire Ear, Nose, and Throat, and Northern Berkshire General Surgery. For information about NBH, call 413-664-5000 or visit www.nbhealth.org.
