Prominent health care CEO returns to region after six years to run nonprofit

Gwen MacKenzie was previously a senior executive of Ascension with oversight for the Michigan market of 15 hospitals and health systems.

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 12:09 p.m. June 16, 2020
Courtesy. Gwen MacKenzie, former president and CEO of Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, has been named CEO of First Step of Sarasota.Â
Courtesy. Gwen MacKenzie, former president and CEO of Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, has been named CEO of First Step of Sarasota.Â
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SARASOTA — Gwen MacKenzie, former president and CEO of Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, has been named CEO of First Step of Sarasota, a nonprofit alcohol and drug treatment and rehabilitation center

 

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