OCTOBER 6, 2023:
Shantel Krebs has been officially hired as the Regional President and CEO of Avera St. Mary’s Hospital in Pierre.
Krebs says she believes in Avera’s mission to help people.
Krebs says the Avera St. Mary’s Hospital team provides top notch care for its patients.
Krebs has been serving in the interim job position since March, following the medical leave and passing of Dr. Mikel Holland. Kristi Livermont remains the Administrator of Avera Missouri River Health Center in Gettysburg, which Krebs will also oversee.
Krebs and her husband, Mitch, plan to relocate back to the Pierre area and look forward to once again calling this region home. In her spare time, she enjoys horseback riding and hunting.
OCTOBER 5, 2023:
Shantel Krebs has been officially hired as the Regional President and CEO of Avera St. Mary’s Hospital in Pierre.
Krebs has been serving as interim regional president and CEO since March, following the medical leave and passing of Dr. Mikel Holland.
As top executive in the Avera St. Mary’s region, she will be responsible to provide leadership, direction and administration across all aspects of care delivery within the region. She will also serve as a member of the Avera senior leadership team and provide leadership on designated service lines to support the overall delivery model for the system.
She joined Avera in 2019 as the Administrator of the Avera Academy. In this role, she helped to identify, train and employ the brightest young minds in health care roles – many of them first-generation Americans. Krebs built this program from the ground up working with clinical areas and developing a deep knowledge of operations. Avera Academy fosters consideration of health care as a career for these students and serves as an additional pipeline for future workforce.
Prior to joining Avera, Krebs has had a successful career in business consulting, entrepreneurship and public service, including 10 years in the South Dakota Legislature, serving in leadership capacities and on the Health and Human Services, Agricultural and Transportation committees.
After her tenure in the legislature, Krebs became South Dakota’s 28th Secretary of State. She restored and transformed the office and successfully navigated through a federal audit of the United States Office of the Inspector General. Shantel has also led the Miss America Organization on a volunteer basis during a time of transition.
Krebs holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Dakota State University (DSU) and has been honored as a Distinguished Alumnus. She was inducted into the South Dakota Hall of Fame in 2022.
Krebs and her husband, Mitch, plan to relocate back to the Pierre area and look forward to once again calling this region home. In her spare time, she enjoys horseback riding and hunting.
MARCH 13, 2023:
The founder and Administrator of the Avera Academy at Avera McKennan in Sioux Falls has taken over as the “interim leader” of Avera St. Mary’s Hospital in Pierre.
Cale Feller is the Director of Media Relations & Corporate Communications and Marketing for Avera. He says Shantel Krebs started the new role yesterday (March 13, 2023) while current President and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Mikel Holland is on medical leave.
Feller says Krebs, who is also a former Secretary of State (2015-19) and former state legislator (2005-15), has been the Administrator of the Avera Academy for about four years. He says the program is designed to expose high school seniors to a variety of healthcare careers while they also earn high school and college credit. The Avera Academy is a partnership with the Sioux Falls School District and Southeast Technical College.
Kristi Livermont remains the Administrator of Avera Missouri River Health Center in Gettysburg, which Holland had also been overseeing.
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