CONWAY — Lee Myles doesn’t expect to be in charge of Memorial Hospital for long — he anticipates the hospital will have a new CEO by March — but he intends to use his short time there wisely, hoping to fill key staff positions and set Memorial on a course to become one of the best small hospitals in the country.
“You’d be surprised, I can get a lot done,” he said in a recent interview with the Sun.
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