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1994.03.04 : Appointment of Region IV Director

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                 Contact: Press Office
Friday, March 4, 1994                          (202) 690-6343


     HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala has announced the appointment
of Patricia A. Ford-Roegner of Atlanta, Ga., an experienced nurse,
social worker and public affairs specialist, as regional director
for Region IV of the Department of Health and Human Services.

     Ford-Roegner, 46, is Secretary Shalala's representative in
coordinating the administration and implementation of departmental
policies throughout the eight-state region, including
intergovernmental affairs at the state, county and municipal
levels.  She serves as a liaison with the public, interest groups,
governors, mayors and other local officials with whom HHS deals.

     Region IV, with headquarters in Atlanta, serves the states of
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina,
South Carolina and Tennessee.

     Since March 1993 until taking her current position, Ford-
Roegner had operated her own consulting firm, PFR Public Affairs,
in Atlanta.  Between late 1990 and the time she formed her own
firm, she worked for the Service Employees International Union in
Washington, D.C., as director of the Nurse Council and Health 
Issues Division.  She and her family returned to Atlanta in 1992. 

     Ford-Roegner received her associate degree in nursing in 1967
from Gwynedd Mercy College, Ambler, Pa.; bachelor's degree in 
public policy from West Chester State University in 1969; and a
master's in social work from the University of Pennsylvania in
1973.

     From 1965 to 1982, she was in nursing and ended her active
practice as head nurse at the American Oncologic Hospital for
Cancer Research in Philadelphia.  During that period she also
taught medical/surgical nursing at the Delaware School of Nursing
in Wilmington, ran community-based programs in Philadelphia and
Atlanta and directed a Georgia work release center for women
offenders.

     From December 1981 to November 1990, she was the government
affairs' political director for the American Nurses Association in
Washington.  She traveled extensively in the Southeastern states.
During 1977 and 1981, she was associate executive director of the
Coalition of American Public Employees.

     Ford-Roegner's awards and honors include: the ANA Management
Award in 1988, 1989 and 1990; Coty's Extraordinary Woman Award in
1987; New York University School of Nursing's 1989 Legislative and
Policy Award; and a citation from the National Association of 
Female Executives.  

     Her husband, Russell H. Roegner, Ph.D., works for the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.  Her daughter Amber is in
eighth grade and attends a local school, Pace Academy.