12.09.2019

Transition

Gary Shaw is the new president and CEO of Nantucket Cottage Hospital, effective today. Shaw most recently served as president of Cambridge Medical Center in Minnesota, an 86-bed facility that is part of Allina Health system. Prior to that, Shaw was the hospital administrator of the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska. He has 20 years of service in the U.S. Navy’s Medical Service Corps, where he rose to the rank of lieutenant commander. Shaw succeeds Dr. Margot Hartmann, who had served as Nantucket Cottage Hospital’s president and CEO since 2010. She stepped down from that role in September 2019 and Jeanette Ives Erickson, R.N., has served the hospital as interim president and CEO. Shaw has a B.S. from Southern Illinois University and a master of science degree in operations management from the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville.