District Board
Ensuring the best health care
Northern Cochise Community Hospital is built on a foundation of values that the District Board of Directors ensures remains as a guide for all aspects of health care offered at the hospital and clinics.Meeting Agendas and MinutesCall for Election/Convocatoria a EleccioneMeet our directors:
Director
Carol Dunagan
Carol Dunagan is an entrepreneur. As a cosmetologist she owned and operated Carol's Hair Fashion for 23 years. In 1989, she opened Desert Impressions Gifts & Flowers, which she ran until she sold it. She then joined her husband, Ken, in the operation of Dunagan Trucking. They became involved with Power from the Past antique tractor club of Tucson. Two years later, they started a tractor pull in Willcox during Rex Allen Days.
Eventually it went from antiques to modified tractors and trucks and grew into AZ Truck & Tractor Pulling with participants coming from many states. Dunagan has continued to operate Dunagan Trucking following the Ken's death in 2019. "It is a privilege to continue serve the community as a district and corporate board member of NCCH," she said.
Director
Winfield Thomas
Winfield Thomas is the author of several program standards for substance abuse treatment in the state of Vermont. He has extensive experience in the treatment of substance abuse disorders. He was instrumental in obtaining a Medicaid waiver, ensuring substance abuse treatment coverage for individuals who would otherwise be ineligible for treatment. He was nominated for the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors Senator Harold Hughes Advocate of the Year and has been a Council on the Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities surveyor since 1996, conducting both administrative and program surveys.
Director
David Miller
Born in Mesa, David Miller was raised in Casa Grande on a cotton farm that his father ran for a longtime local farmer. He was on an Evangelical Methodist Church board for two years. He is married with two school-aged boys. Miller has worked in multiple fields--usually in supervisory or management roles--including steel work, farming, construction and truck driving. He is now the facility manager for Crop Production Services. "Unfortunately my wife and I have had a lot of experience with hospitals and specialists in the past with our youngest son," he said, adding they "have seen a lot of good and bad things in the industry, which I believe is useful as a board director."
Director
Ellen Kauffman
Born and raised in Tucson, Ellen Kauffman graduated from the University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting. Starting her adult life as an office manager for a small nonprofit, Kauffman later ventured into real estate where she eventually met her husband, Mike. When their two children were small, she focused on home schooling, while still assisting her husband in his real estate career.
In 2011, her family moved to Willcox to start fresh after the recession changed the housing market in Tucson. By 2014, she had started on a path at Western Bank, where she is now branch manager and vice president. Kauffman said she wanted to serve on the district board, as "the hospital is an important part of the community and it is a good organization for me to spend my time and energy. I have a background in accounting, and the district is all about numbers. It is important to have the hospital and to keep it in good financial health."
Director
Wendy A. Conger
Wendy A. Conger was born in Madrid and has been living in Arizona since 1982. A graduate of Kingman High School, Wendy has been a professional educator since 1988. Conger earned her Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education from the University of Arizona. In 1996, she completed her master's degree in educational leadership. Lastly, as a graduate of Grand Canyon University in 2016, Conger earned her master's degree in special education. Conger retired in July 2021. She and her husband, David, have five children and six grandchildren.
