IMAGINE

from LWR Life Spring 2023

LEADING BY EXAMPLE

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vania border and Pittsburgh. His dad worked in steel mills and his mom was a nurse who spent most of her career teaching nursing. Guz knew he didn’t want to work in the mills, and he also didn’t want to be in the allied health side, delivering health care to patients.

But the business side of running a hospital? That became Guz’s passion early on, first at Marshall University in West Virginia, and later at Cornell, where he earned a master’s in health care administration. “There’s a lot of other things that go into running a giant (health care) organization,” he says. “There’s a lot of things going on behind the scenes that nobody sees.”

After a brief stint in Polk County, at Bartow Regional Medical Center, Guz went on to work for hospitals in Washington state and Indiana. He was CEO of Jennersville Regional Hospital in West Grove, Pennsylvania, south of Philadelphia, when DiLallo called him about the opening in Lakewood Ranch. “He’s very growth oriented,” DiLallo says, “and was a perfect fit for this hospital.”

Like many others, Guz and his family had vacationed on Siesta Key. And moving back to Florida was a longrange, back-of-the-mind goal. Closing in on seven years in the CEO role, he remains excited for both the longrange growth and day-to-day.

“It’s hard to be stuck in a rut in this job,” he says. “There’s just so many different things happening every day.”

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