Ralph Turner has been appointed senior vice president and hospital president at Wellstar MCG Health Medical Center in Augusta, Georgia. Prior to his current role, he had served as the interim senior vice president and hospital president for the medical center since 2022, as well as the senior vice president and president for Wellstar Paulding Medical Center. Turner’s extensive leadership experience in large, complex healthcare organizations includes positions at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, and Cleveland Clinic.
Turner holds a doctorate in business administration from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, as well as master’s degrees in health care administration and public administration from the University of Maryland and Troy University at Dothan. Before starting his healthcare career, he spent over 21 years in the U.S. Army and served at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as the director of the Clinical Engineering Division.
Wellstar MCG Health Medical Center is a major healthcare facility located in Augusta, Georgia that includes a 478-bed adult hospital, the 154-bed Children’s Hospital of Georgia, the Georgia Cancer Center, and over 80 outpatient clinics in Georgia and South Carolina. Formerly known as Augusta University Health, the medical center is now part of the Wellstar family. Mary Chatman, Wellstar’s executive vice president of acute care operations praised Turner’s leadership skills saying “Ralph’s expertise in integrating teams into new organizations has been instrumental in bringing together our MCG Health team members into Wellstar.”
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