Aqua Ohio CEO named chairman of Forum Health board of directors

YOUNGSTOWN — Walter J. “Buzz” Pishkur, president and chief executive officer for Aqua Ohio, has been named chairman of the Forum Health Board of Directors for 2008-2009. He replaced Perry Hassleman.

Born in Hubbard, Pishkur, of Boardman, has been a member of the board of directors of the financially troubled Forum Health for three years, and has been an advisory board member of St. Elizabeth Hospital in Danville, Ill., a Forum spokeswoman said.

Pishkur and his family have a long association with Forum Health and its hospitals. He has four sisters who work at Forum Health, and his father is a retiree of Trumbull Memorial Hospital in Warren, officials said.

Forum’s other major facilities are Northside Medical Center in Youngstown and Hillside Rehabilitation Hospital in Howland.

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