Ms. Montgomery serves as CEO of Prisma Health’s Midlands Market, overseeing four hospitals across the Columbia and Sumter, S.C., region, representing more than 1,300 licensed beds and more than 7,000 team members. A registered nurse by training, she is the first woman to serve as a market-wide CEO at Prisma Health, and earlier in her career she was the first woman CEO of both McLaren Port Huron (Mich.) and McLaren St. Luke’s in Maumee, Ohio. Since joining Prisma Health in May 2025, she championed the opening of the $128 million Northeast Columbia Medical Park in Columbia, a 120,000-square-foot outpatient hub, and added 86 employed physicians and advanced practice providers with commitments to recruit 90 more in the coming fiscal year. Under her oversight, Baptist Parkridge Hospital in Columbia achieved Magnet with Distinction, a designation held by only three hospitals in the state, and improved from a “B” to an “A” in the most recent Leapfrog hospital safety grade cycle. Meanwhile, Richland Hospital in Columbia improved from a “C” to a “B” score. Before joining Prisma Health, Ms. Montgomery was president and CEO of McLaren Port Huron and McLaren St. Luke’s and served as system-level chief nursing officer for Grand Blanc, Mich.-based McLaren Health Care, where she standardized nursing practice across 13 hospitals.
