Health care organization promotes top executive from within

Healthcare Network of Southwest Florida names Dr. Emily Ptaszek as president and CEO. She will succeed the retiring Mike Ellis in August.

By Business Observer Staff
| 6:46 a.m. July 15, 2019
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Charlotte–Lee–Collier

NAPLES — With the Aug. 19 retirement of Mike Ellis, Healthcare Network of Southwest Florida has named Dr. Emily Ptaszek as its new president and CEO.

Ptaszek is currently COO of the organization, which was founded in 1977 to serve migrant farm workers and their families in Immokalee, according to a statement. Healthcare Network provides care to more than 51,000 residents of Collier County through 21 practices regardless of ability to pay.