Hospital CFO announces exit from local hospital

After nearly five years with the Petersburg Medical Center, chief financial officer Doran Hammett announced his departure from the hospital during an executive session at Thursday's board meeting.

Hammett said he is leaving PMC to find an interim position closer to his family in Okarche, Oklahoma. It currently takes him about a day to fly back home.

"My leaving doesn't have anything to do with the town or the hospital or anybody here," said Hammett. "I thoroughly enjoyed it. Leaving is going to be difficult and kind of bittersweet, but my family would like to have me closer."

He works in Peter...