Dr. Montez Carter

ATLANTA – D. Montez Carter, FACHE, president of St. Mary’s Good Samaritan Hospital in Greensboro, was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Georgia Hospital Association (GHA) at the association’s annual convention Nov. 9 in Savannah.

Carter has served as president of St. Mary’s Good Samaritan Hospital since 2012. In 2010, he came to the Athens-based St. Mary’s Health Care System to serve as the vice president of operations. He was heavily involved in the acquisition of St. Mary’s Good Samaritan Hospital from its previous owner, leading to his appointment as interim president in January 2012 before being named president in November 2012.

Carter came to St. Mary’s from Greenwood Leflore Hospital in Greenwood, Miss., where he served first as director of pharmacy services and then as associate director of performance improvement and patient support services.

During his tenure at St. Mary’s Good Samaritan Hospital, Carter has overseen a number of significant accomplishments, including the purchase of the region’s first 64-slice CT scanner, a vital tool in heart and stroke diagnostic imaging; the growth of services and medical staff; and enhanced stroke care through a partnership with Georgia Regents University in Augusta. St. Mary’s Good Samaritan Hospital is the first Certified Remote Treatment Stroke Center in the state of Georgia.

“Montez Carter is an extremely talented leader who has revolutionized health care locally and statewide,” said GHA President and CEO Earl Rogers. “We look forward to his service on our Board.”

Carter is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. He earned a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and his doctoral degree in pharmacy from the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss.