National Board of Advisors

Gary Carter, President, New Jersey Hospital Association

Gary Carter is president and CEO of the Princeton-based, 110-member New Jersey Hospital Association (NJHA), where he has led the healthcare advocacy group for the last eleven years.  Prior to coming the Garden State, Carter was president at the New Hampshire Hospital Association for eight years. Before coming east, he held a number of executive management posts with the 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 fostering 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 the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations in its attempt to standardize clinical outcomes 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 US Air Force, and earned a master’s degree in healthcare administration at Trinity University in Texas.