Published on October 16, 2025
Mark Marsh Joins Kentucky Chamber Board of Directors
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Mark Marsh, president and chief executive officer of Owensboro Health, has been elected to serve on the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. Marsh will serve on the 60-member board, which represents a cross-section of key business and industry leaders from across Kentucky.
Marsh has over 25 years of leadership experience in the health care industry and has served as president and CEO of Owensboro Health since June 2021. Before joining Owensboro Health, he served as president of Health Central Hospital in Orlando, Florida, where he led the expansion of key service lines and the opening of Horizon West Hospital. He has also held chief executive roles at Gateway Medical Center in Clarksville, Tennessee; Greenview Regional Hospital in Bowling Green; and Marshall Medical Center in Lewisburg, Tennessee.
A Cincinnati native, Marsh attended Western Kentucky University. He has been recognized nationally for his contributions to health care, including being named Tennessee’s “Young Healthcare Executive of the Year” by the American College of Healthcare Executives and receiving WKU’s Distinguished Service Medal for professional excellence and community impact.
“Mark is an excellent addition to the Kentucky Chamber Board of Directors,” said Kentucky Chamber President and CEO Ashli Watts. “We are excited to work with him to carry out our vision of making Kentucky the best state in the nation to live, work and do business.”
For a complete list of Kentucky Chamber board members, visit kychamber.com.
About the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce
From its beginnings in 1946 as a bipartisan voice for business at the state Capitol, the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce has evolved into the premier business association in the state. Today, the Kentucky Chamber represents over 3,800 businesses as members– from family-owned shops to Fortune 500 companies – that employ over half of the Commonwealth’s workforce. Kentucky Chamber members benefit from a broad range of services: year-round lobbying, timely communications on business issues, publications and seminars on evolving regulations and policies and a variety of other member benefits.
About Owensboro Health
Owensboro Health is a nonprofit health system with a mission to heal the sick and to improve the health of the communities it serves in Kentucky and Indiana. The system includes Owensboro Health Regional Hospital, nationally recognized for design, architecture and engineering; Owensboro Health Muhlenberg Community Hospital; Owensboro Health Twin Lakes Medical Center; the Owensboro Health Medical Group comprised of over 350 providers at more than 30 locations; four outpatient Healthplex facilities, a certified medical fitness facility, the Healthpark; a weight management program, and the Mitchell Memorial Cancer Center.
On average each year, we have more than 19,000 inpatient admissions, deliver 2,000 babies and provide the region’s only Level III NICU. Owensboro Health physicians perform nearly 33,000 surgical procedures, including nearly 150 open-heart surgeries. Our physicians and staff have 90,000 Emergency Department visits and more than 1.25 million outpatient visits annually. Visit our home page for more information.