Mark Carter is a life long resident of Kentucky. Born in Louisville, he grew up in Lexington, graduated from the University of Kentucky and settled in Louisville in 1992. He is a Certified Public Accountant and Management Consultant.
Mark has spent his career in professional services and executive management within the health care industry. He started his career with Appalachian Regional Healthcare, spent 20 years with the international professional services firm of Ernst & Young, was Senior Vice President of Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare and now directs the Dean Dorton Ford office in Louisville.
Mark has worked with nearly every major health care system in the Commonwealth (as well as southern and central Indiana and southwestern Ohio) on matters of key strategic importance.
His work has taken him throughout the Commonwealth as well as the United States. In Kentucky, he has worked with clients from the Jackson Purchase to the Appalachian mountains and from the Cincinnati suburbs to Bowling Green and Corbin in the south. And, those clients have included local governmental leaders, health care executives, physicians, nurses and other clinicians in acute, long-term, home, psychiatric and rehabilitative care. His client organization range in size from systems with over $2 billion in revenue to tiny rural hospitals with less than 25 beds.
While at Ernst & Young, Mark became acquainted with the concept of life long learning and has over the years been a keen observer of public policy, politics and government, health care markets, and Kentucky’s localities and their issues, and high school and college sports among other things.
Mark is married to Kellie and has three grown children, Marcie (Dan) Cheshire of Somerset, Kristin (John) Esham of Louisville and Nathan Carter of Louisville. He is blessed with one granddaughter, Gracie Jo. He is an avid reader, a private pilot and enjoys playing golf and motor boating. He and Kellie spend their summer weekends in the Somerset area (near Nancy, KY) on Lake Cumberland where they own a lake cabin with Mark’s brothers.
Finally, he also enjoys writing and has been known to have an opinion or two. So, he decided to enter the blogosphere. This site, Carter on Kentucky, is a general interest site that he publishes periodically. His, other blog, the Healthcare Forum, follows the health care industry.
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