(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker recently reappointed Rulon Stacey as chair of the Baldrige Program’s Board of Overseers. She also appointed three new members to three-year terms and reappointed another member to a second term on the advisory board.

Stacey is president and CEO of Fairview Health Services in Minnesota. He oversees a system encompassing hundreds of primary and specialty care clinics, five community hospitals, and the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview. The organization’s 22,000 employees and 2,500 affiliated physicians serve more than 625,000 patients each year. As former CEO of Poudre Valley Hospital System (now part of University of Colorado Health), where he worked for 16 years, Stacey led the health care organization to receive a Baldrige Award in 2008. Stacey has served on the Baldrige Program’s Overseers board since 2012; his second term as chair will end on February 28, 2015.

The three new Overseers are Julie Furst-Bowe, Reatha Clark King, and Robert Pence; their terms will end February 28, 2017.

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