TYLER, Texas — Elmer G. Ellis, the former longtime president/CEO of East Texas Medical Center Regional Healthcare System, died Sunday. He was 78.
Services are pending with Burks-Walker-Tippit Funeral Directors of Tyler.
Ellis retired last year after 50 years of leadership with Tyler-based ETMC. The hospital was part of the merger that created UT Health East Texas.
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