Galen D. Powers Galen Powers has served as a director since 1992. He is the Senior Founder of Powers, Pyles, Sutter & Verville P.C., a Washington, D.C. law firm specializing in healthcare and hospital law, which he founded in 1983. Mr. Powers was the first chief counsel of the federal Health Care Financing Administration (now Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) and has served as a director and the President of the American Health Lawyers Association. Mr. Powers is currently a director of MedCath, Inc., which owns and operates acute care hospitals that specialize in cardiovascular disease, and a number of private companies in the healthcare field.