Cindy Carstens

Hospital’s new CEO has local ties

LAKE CITY — Cindy Carstens has been named CEO of Stewart Memorial Community Hospital.

The Farnhamville native — the former director of nursing at the Greene County Medical Center — began her career with SMCH in 2008 as vice president of nursing and ancillary services, and was named chief operating officer in 2015.

Stewart Memorial Community Hospital is located in Lake City, and is part of UnityPoint Health Fort Dodge.

Carstens will begin her new role July 16.

She earned an associate degree of nursing from Iowa Central Community College, a bachelor of science in nursing from the University of Phoenix and a masters in health care administration from Des Moines University.

Carstens and her husband, Alan, a farmer, live in Gowrie and have three grown children.

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