Margaret Acker (Blake Woods Medical Park Surgery Center, Jackson, Mich.). Ms. Acker is CEO of Blake Woods Medical Park Surgery Center, a three-OR, multi-specialty center in Michigan. The center opened in 1997, and its surgeons specialize in ophthalmology, orthopedics and…
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