Mountain Home VA Medical Center (MHVAMC)
Mountain Home VA Medical Center Leadership attending a Council meeting on August 10, 2017. Left to right: Dr. Andrew Sexton, Dr. Elizabeth Bishop, Mr. Dean Borsis, and council member Randy Scott.
Director of Mountain Home MHVAMC. Dean B. Borsos has been appointed the medical center’s new director and will oversee delivery of health care to more than 170,000 veterans living in a 41-county area of Tennessee, Virginia and Kentucky. Mr. Borsos has 20 years of experience in managing health care systems and business operations with 10 years at the Department of Defense and Air Force. He also served as vice commander for the Air Force Medical Support Agency.
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Associate Chief of Staff (ACOS) Primary Care Case Manager(PCCM). Chief Medical Officer Dr. Elizabeth Bishop for VA Knoxville Outpatient Clinic has been appointed the medical center’s new ACOS PCCM
Chief of Chaplain Services. Dr. Cliff Vicars was appointed the medical center’s new Chief of Chaplain Services. Dr. Vicars is a retired U.S. Army LTC Chaplain
VA Knoxville Outpatient Clinic
New Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for KOPC. His name is Dr. Andrew Sexton. Dr. Sexton completed his residency in a combined program of Internal Medicine and Psychiatry. Prior to joining the Knoxville Clinic last year, Dr. Sexton worked for many years in the local community as a hospitalist and in medical management. The clinic, staff and our patients will benefit from Dr. Sexton’s strong clinical and management experience. I look forward to working with him as he leads Knoxville in the years ahead. “
New Mental Health Chief for KOPC. His name is Dr. Robert Hierholzer. Currently he is a staff psychiatrist and Associate Chief of Staff for Education- VA Central California HCS (Fresno) and Health Sciences Clinical Professor- UCSF-Fresno Medical Education Program. He brings great clinical, educational, research and management experience. He arrived in July 2017 and attended the August 10, 2017 council meeting and was appointed as the KOPC MH council liaison.
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Dr. Vicars is still in the Army, where he serves as the Deputy Command Chaplain for the 108th Training Command.
Chaplain Vicars has been in the Army for almost 22 years. In January 2013 he joined the Department of Veterans Affairs; in 2017 Chaplain Vicars accepted the Chief of Chaplain Services position at the Mountain Home VA Medical Center. Chaplain Vicars service, leadership and vision has already had a positive impact for the veterans and their families in the Mountain Home VAMC catchment area. The Council had the pleasure of meeting Chaplain Vicars at our March 2017 council meeting.