Meet Us
Foundation Staff & Board
Our staff and Board members are dedicated to the health of Wickenburg, generously giving their time and skills to further local, quality healthcare. Our Board is all-volunteer, and each year we are grateful for their full participation in annual donations and fundraiser planning.
Our Staff
April L. Taylor
Foundation Executive Director
April Taylor previously served as the Development Manager for the Wickenburg Community Hospital Foundation and now proudly leads the organization as its Executive Director. April’s career began as an entrepreneur. With only an idea and just one contact, she built KindCare Medical, an online business with three distinct websites specializing in ocular care, specialty medical seating, and medical-surgical products.
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April taught herself to build websites, write code, and market on the internet. KindCare Medical consistently ranked at the top of search engines. Not satisfied with simply having a high search engine ranking, she turned to social media. Facebook offered limitless opportunities to connect in a way never before possible for a small business. She again immersed herself in learning and identified digital marketing strategies. KindCare Medical was so successful, it was eventually purchased by a private party as a turnkey business.
April now focuses that same dedication, passion, and digital marketing expertise to support the Foundation!
Claudia Summers
Grant Writer
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Claudia has been recognized by Who Who’s and the American Women’s Business Association. She is also a Certified Lead Auditor in Quality and Environmental Systems, and has presented at the American Society of Quality.
Today, Claudia’s goal is to support opportunities for Wickenburg Community Hospital Foundation to identify, apply and maintain Grant funding ensuring continual improvement at a world-class facility, with the latest equipment for their health care today and in the future.
In her spare time, Claudia embraces experiences from off-road and street motorcycles; to off-shore, high-performance race boats and pleasure yachts traveling the Atlantic Ocean. Soaring higher was achieved when she became a licensed private pilot and flew through the Bermuda Triangle.
Richelle Crook
Senior Accountant
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Richelle volunteers at St. Mary’s Food Bank. She is married to her best friend, Terry. They love traveling, dogs, and football.
Our Board
Hunt Spear
Foundation Board Chair
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Soon after arriving in Wickenburg, Hunt began volunteering for many different organizations. He spent two three-year terms on the board of the Wickenburg Community Hospital Foundation serving three years as Chairman of the Board, one year on the board of the Wickenburg Citizens Patrol, three years on the board of the Wickenburg Elks Lodge more recently returning for another three-year term with the Wickenburg Community Hospital Foundation Board of Directors.
Hunt is also a twelve-year volunteer of the Amigos Trail Ride and Drive, as Chairman for five years.
Hunt is excited to be on the Wickenburg Community Hospital Foundation Board and looks forward to supporting our local community. His life these days involves work, volunteering, and motorcycling.
Ed Buscis
Foundation Vice Chair
Ed retired in 2004 from his thriving distribution and manufacturing business, and has an educational background in mechanical engineering. Ed’s mother once spent time at Wickenburg Community Hospital for over a month and was treated “in a manner that was so extremely special.”
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He currently volunteers at the Peeples Valley Fire Department, and is motivated to be a part of future initiatives connecting Hospital services with our surrounding rural communities.
Lea Way, FNP-C, PA-C
Treasurer
Lea has been practicing medicine for over 30 years. Her career began serendipitously as a nursing assistant at Wickenburg Community Hospital. While working, she also completed Nursing School at Yavapai Community College in Prescott, Arizona. Then she entered the Primary Care/Emergency Nurse Practitioner Program at Maricopa County Hospital and became a Physician Assistant.
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Lea believes medicine and care go together, and all patients should have a voice in their care.
Josh Jones, DMD
Foundation Board Director
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Ernest James Dale
Board Member
Ernest has lived in Wickenburg since 2016, and has 45 years of experience in executive, business and technical management. His senior executive roles have included leadership at Computer Sciences Corporation, CAP Gemini Sogeti and Electronic Data Systems. He also founded E.J. Caimen, which over 20 years became the largest manufacturer of shelf merchandising strips for retail chains.
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His interest in serving on the Foundation board lies in assisting with the development and improvement of facilities and operations, because “the quality of medical services available at Wickenburg Hospital is important to the community and to me.”
“Wickenburg is my home and I am in a position to give back to my community. It’s the right thing to do.”
– Hunt Spear, Foundation Vice Chair