Five years after operating Southeast Arizona Medical Center as its chief executive officer, Mike Carter has accepted an offer as CEO for a hospital in rural New Mexico.
 James H. Gingerich, left, and Mike Carter. |
During his five years at SMAC, Carter guided the hospital through a period of significant growth. He established the Omega-Alpha program and has recruited several physicians to the hospital, resulting in the SMAC’s Specialty Clinic with several services offered to the community.
These services include podiatry, pulmonology, cardiology, ophthalmology, oncology, prosthetics and infectious diseases.
Surgery is now being performed several times each week and a Hospitalist program has been established to provide continuing care for patients.
Other healthcare needs available in Douglas is the Douglas Dialysis Center, which now serves patient that at one time were forced to travel out of town for their dialysis needs.
“SAMC and the community owe Mr. Carter a debt of gratitude for all he has done to improve the quality of patient care in Douglas,” said James Riley, chairman of the board at SAMC. “The SAMC board of directors, administration and employees, wish Mr. Carter the best of luck in his new position. We will miss him here in Douglas.”
Interim CEO Gingerich began his duties at the hospital on Jan. 29, 2009. Gingerich recently retired as CEO at the Cobre Valley Community Hospital in Globe, Ariz. He brings a wealth of administrative experience to his new position and is enthusiastic about the many areas in which SAMC can grow and improve.
Gingerich’s wife, Jan, is an elementary school teacher who is looking forward to volunteering in the school system.
Gingerich was CEO at Banner Mesa Medical Center in Phoenix from 1999 to 2002.
He was also vice-president of operations for Lutheran Health system in Fargo, N.D. from 1995 to 1999.
From 1987 to 1995 he was the CEO at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital and Denali Center Nursing Home in Fairbanks, Alaska.
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