Lebanon — Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital on Friday announced six new appointees to its board of trustees, four of whom are administrators at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, which recently formed an affiliation with the smaller hospital.

The move adds four Dartmouth-Hitchcock executives to a board of 13 members, not including another four ex-officio trustees.

“The addition of these talented executives and physicians will assist policy-making, decision-making and oversight at our hospital,” Alice Peck Day President and CEO Sue Mooney said in a news release. “We are delighted to have them join our organization and work with us to increase patient access, lower health care costs, and improve quality.”

The governing board’s leadership will remain in the hands of Alice Peck Day natives, however. Michael Long, a trustee since 2013, will become chairman, and the Rev. J.D. Collins, rector of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Hanover, will serve as vice chairman.

In a telephone interview Friday, Long noted that the deal with Dartmouth-Hitchcock, which was planned over two years and approved by state authorities in March, allows Dartmouth-Hitchcock to appoint a third of Alice Peck Day’s governing board.

“That provision is partly to integrate the organizations,” Long said, “but also to allow the activity between the two organizations to take place at a parent and affiliate level.”

The appointment of Dartmouth-Hitchcock executives to the smaller hospital’s governing body will help “achieve tighter integration” and provide a “tighter alignment” along decision-making lines, the chairman said.

Beginning in 2018, D-H will have the right to appoint and remove Alice Peck Day’s chief executive.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock also will have the power to approve any other new trustees’ appointments, according to the agreement.

The new Dartmouth-Hitchcock trustees include George Blike, the system’s chief “Quality and Value” officer; Ed Merrens, chief medical officer and executive medical director for systems integration; Mary M. Oseid, vice president of system integration and shared services; and Roderic “Roddy” Young, executive vice president and chief communications and marketing officer at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health System.

Two other appointees are heads of local businesses with global reach, the release said.

Greg Lang is president and CEO of M2S, a clinical data and imaging firm in Lebanon, and Brenan Riehl is president and CEO of GW Plastics, a plastic injection molding company with locations in Royalton and Bethel.

Rob Wolfe can be reached at rwolfe@vnews.com.