Interim assignment: Retired Chewelah CEO heads Whitman Hospital

With more than 42 years in the healthcare field under his belt along with two retirements, Gary Peck feels lucky to be in Colfax.

Peck, 67, is the Interim CEO for Whitman Hospital & Medical Center in Colfax. He came here after retiring from St. Joseph’s Hospital in Chewelah. He retired once in 2011, but then was asked to go to the Ritzville hospital to do consulting work and then retired again in 2012. He started work here in April.

“I enjoy rural hospitals very much,” he said. He is doing regular CEO duties until a permanent replacement is named for CEO Debbie Glass who has retired.

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