Quip Costanzo, Dr. Jose Luis Rodriguez, Samuel Potter and Cynthia J. George were elected to the board of the Grand River Hospital District Tuesday.

They were the top vote-getters among 12 candidates competing for four open seats.

Costanzo, a lifelong Rifle resident, is owner/operator of Stampfel Construction Co.; he has been a Rifle Fire Department member since 1981. He received 384 votes.

Rodriguez is a retired board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon, and was a staff physician at Clagett Memorial Hospital for 17 years. He was chief of surgery for three years. He is a retired Colorado Army National Guardsman and a veteran of Operation Desert Storm. He received 311 votes.

Rulison rancher Samuel Potter is a one-term incumbent on the hospital district board. He is the son of a doctor and nurse. He received 249 votes.

George, a former employee of the hospital district, is now employed at Crossroads Assisted Living in Rifle. She received 241 votes.

Unsuccessful candidates were Betty Clifford, with 209 votes; Mike Mosby, with 202 votes; Carolyn Bernhardt, with 166 votes; Don Prentice, 163; Kirk Beattie, 155; Tamara Degler, 120; Paul Cornett, 78; and Robert J. Miller, 63.