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Executive Biographies
Gary S. Carter, President & CEO, New Jersey Hospital Association
 Gary Carter is president and CEO of the Princeton-based New Jersey Hospital Association (NJHA), where he has led the healthcare advocacy group since 1993. Prior to coming to the Garden State, Carter was president of the New Hampshire Hospital Association for eight years. Before coming east, he held a number of executive management posts with Intermountain Health Care, a system of hospitals in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada.
Known as an association leader who builds consensus and cooperation, he is working in New Jersey to improve hospital-physician relations and foster member advocacy on such issues as charity care funding, certificate of need reform and the needs of specialty hospitals. He also supports new community health initiatives and the public release of health outcome data. He sits on various committees of the American Hospital Association and consults with the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations in its attempt to standardize quality measurement.
A Salt Lake City native, Carter graduated from the University of Utah in 1967, spent six years in the Office of Special Investigations of the U.S. Air Force, and earned a master's degree in healthcare administration at Trinity University in Texas.
Carter now calls Somerset County home. He resides in Belle Mead with his wife Susan, a former New Hampshire legislator. They have four children.
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