Ms. Cole had been with Wright Memorial since May 2007.
Gary Wages, who recently retired as CEO of Kansas City, Mo.-based Saint Luke’s Northland Hospital, began serving as interim CEO on May 31.
Read the Trenton Republican-Times report on Karen Cole.
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