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Kelly E. Curry of Health Management Associates, Inc. (NYSE: HMA), is the Company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) effective July 1, 2007.
Mr. Curry served for the prior nine months as a consultant to HMA on hospital operations, reporting directly to Mr. Burke Whitman CEO. Mr. Curry previously held positions in hospital management for seventeen years and served in leadership roles with HMA for twelve of those years from 1982 to 1994, including seven years as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, from 1987 to 1994.
Since 1995, Mr. Curry, an ordained Minister, served as Chairman and President of Foundation in Christ Ministries, Ltd., a multi-faceted, cross-denominational family of ministries that he and his wife founded which is based in Ireland and funded from the United States. He has turned over the management of the ministries to a successor in order to assume his new responsibility with HMA.
Mr. Curry is a graduate of the University of Kentucky with a BS degree in Accounting, earned a Certificate of Biblical Studies from Torchbearers Fellowship, and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Mr. Curry and his wife currently reside in Naples. Their two grown children attend university in Kentucky. | 