The N.C. Hospital Association honored two men from the Wilmington area during its Trustee Service Awards earlier this year.
 
John Carpenter, chairman of Novant Health Brunswick Medical Center’s board, and Ronald Isyk, who sits on New Hanover Regional Medical Center’s board, were two of nine hospital trustees statewide honored with Trustee Service Awards, according to news releases.
 
The award, established in 1992, recognizes exemplary trustees who have made significant and unique contributions to their hospitals and the communities they serve, a release stated.
 
Carpenter has served on the Brunswick Medical Center’s board of trustees since 2006 and has been chairman since 2011.
 
Since Carpenter has been on the board, Novant Health has improved health-care quality scores, added services, hired more than 75 new staff members, recruited dozens of doctors and built a $107 million medical center, a release stated.
 
Isyk (at right) has been part of New Hanover Regional’s board of trustees for nine years and currently serves as its treasurer.
 
Several projects have been implemented during Isyk’s tenure, including approval of a bond offering to invest more than $221 million into a master facility plan — the largest expansion and renovation project in the hospital’s history — and the board’s approval for a $56 million project to institute a new electronic medical records system, a release stated.