HEALTH GUIDE
For Exceptional Community Hospital Chief Executive Officer Bob Cardenas, and Registered Nurse
Carmela Hamlett, patient care is the top priority.
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General hospital F OR BRUCE MCVEIGH, A 30-YEAR ARMY VETERAN AND THE CHIEF OPERATING officer at Exceptional Community Hospital, a defining moment came at 9:37 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, when American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the Pentagon’s west side, killing 184 and injuring 160. McVeigh was serving as the chief of current medical operations for Secretary James Peake, who at the time was the Army’s surgeon general. By Justin Griffin Veterans a force in opening local hospital
In the wake of 9/11, the mission was clear: care for the injured. “I remember going with Secretary Peake, late at night,
towers and 2,763 lives there, along with another 44 victims in the hijacking and subsequent crash of United Airlines Flight 93 in southwestern Pennsylvania.
Both worked in the basement of the Pentagon, one of the targets of the 9/11 terrorist attacks that day that also claimed the World Trade Center
Bruce McVeigh, Exceptional Community Hospital’s chief operating officer, served for three decades in the Army, retiring as a colonel.
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