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Mary Schmidt and Rick Coffman have
recently joined the staff at Mercy Hospital. Schmidt has been named
the new director of Laboratory services, while Coffman is taking
over as director of the Surgery department.
 Schmidt recently relocated to
Independence from El Dorado, where she worked as the lab director at
Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital.
She is a 1997 graduate of Wichita
State University where she received her Bachelor’s in Medical
Technology degree and Master’s in Healthcare Administration. Schmidt
also draws from her past experience as chair of Health professions
advisory board and chair of Medical Lab Technician program advisory
board with Wichita Area Technical College. She has also served as a
board chair of the Bluestem Chapter for the American Red Cross and
Kansas director of the Southwest Association of Microbiology.
Schmidt resides in Independence with
her husband, Chuck, and her two daughters, Christine and Alex.
 Coffman comes to Independence from
Ottawa, where he recently served as surgical services director at
Ransom Memorial Hospital.
He graduated from Mid America
Nazarene University in Olathe in 1999 with a Bachelor’s degree in
Nursing and later received a Master’s of Business Administration
degree from Keller Graduate School of Management in Kansas City. He
is a Member of the Association of Operating Room Nurses, licensed by
the Kansas State Board of Nursing and is a past non-commissioned
officer for the Hospital Corps, U.S. Navy.
Coffman and his wife, Malana, have
two daughters, ages 8 and 5.
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