Movers & Shakers
OCT. 10, 2023
Movers & Shakers features new hires, promotions and awards involving top executives and organizations. For consideration, email [email protected].
Aimee Middleton
Good Samaritan Society
Aimee Middleton, vice president of operations for the Good Samaritan Society, was a panelist at the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living convention earlier this month in Denver. She shared forward-looking solutions to address long-term care workforce challenges with industry leaders.
Alix Andal
MarketBeat
MarketBeat has hired Alix Andal as senior web and graphic designer. Andal has more than a decade of freelance web and design experience.
AIA South Dakota
AIA South Dakota presented its annual awards at its annual conference.
Co-op Architecture won two Honor Awards in Architecture — AIA South Dakota’s top design award. It was recognized for its design of the new Click Rain and Lemonly headquarters and for its design of a new terminal at the Watertown Regional Airport.
EAPC Architects Engineers won a Merit Award in Architecture for its design of the South Dakota State University Raven Precision Agriculture Center in Brookings.
Koch Hazard Architects won a Merit Award in Architecture for a Falls Center trash enclosure.
TSP Inc. won a Merit Award in Architecture for the Northern State University Jewett Regional Science Education Center in Aberdeen.
Bernie Hunhoff of Yankton, the editor-at-large of South Dakota Magazine, received the 2023 Champion of Architecture award.
Patricia Acevedo Fuentes, a partner and architect with Joseph David Associates in Rapid City, received the Legacy Award.
Jared Carda, an associate principal architect in Co-op Architecture’s Rapid City office, received the South Dakota Young Architect Award.
AIA South Dakota has named the officers for its board of directors: president, Jeff Nelson, Falls Architecture Studio; vice president, Justin Oleson, RSA Architecture & Design; secretary/treasurer, Jared Carda, Co-op Architecture in Rapid City; and immediate past president, Allison Dvorak, Avera Health. New board members are Angela Boersma, ID8 Architecture in Brookings; Josh Muckenhirn, ISG; and Mark Averett, TSP Inc. in Rapid City.
Children’s Home Society of South Dakota
Dustin Morrison
Gina Hopkins
Jack Marsh
Deb Soholt
New officers for the board of the Children’s Home Society of South Dakota are president, Deb Soholt; vice president, Jack Marsh; treasurer, Gina Hopkins; and secretary, Dustin Morrison. New board members are Heath Ducheneaux, Steve Flanery, John Nooney and Dr. Scott Van Dam.
Children’s Home Foundation
Kara Flynn
Bobby Sundby
Lori Lewison
Bob Baker
New officers have been named for the board of the Children’s Home Foundation: president, Bob Baker; vice president, Lori Lewison; treasurer, Bobby Sundby; and secretary, Kara Flynn. New board members are Marty DesLauriers and Val Mickelson.
Kristopher Reed
Goosmann Law Firm
Attorney Kristopher Reed has joined Goosmann Law Firm. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree and a Juris Doctor from the University of South Dakota, Reed served as a law clerk for Chief Justice Steven Jensen of the South Dakota Supreme Court. His most recent role was in-house counsel in the tech industry. He will work with clients in the areas of estate planning, business law, tax law and intellectual property.
Doug Murano
HenkinSchultz
Doug Murano has joined HenkinSchultz as creative director. Murano has more than 15 years of marketing and communications experience in higher education, health care and energy. He is also a nationally recognized writer and independent publisher.
South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organizations
The South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organizations presented its annual distinguished service awards at its annual convention.
Johanna Simpson
George
Marcia Taylor
Healthcare hero: Marcia Taylor, patient experience director, Monument Health in Rapid City.
Honorary healthcare heroes: George, a certified therapy dog, and Johanna Simpson, his certified therapy dog handler with Therapy Dog International who serve as Sanford Health volunteers.
Carla Van Dyke
Jerry Oster
Angela Schoffelman
Healthcare Professional: Angela Schoffelman, community program manager, Avera Health.
Media personality: Jerry Oster, WNAX Radio in Yankton.
Post-Acute Champion: Carla Van Dyke, director patient services, Avera@Home.
Thomas Glover
Lynne Valenti
Mike Diedrich
State Legislator: Sen. Mike Diedrich, Rapid City.
State Official: Lynne Valenti, deputy secretary and director, Division of Licensure and Accreditation, South Dakota Department of Health.
Trustee: Thomas Glover, board of directors for Community Memorial Hospital, Burke.
Bob Sutton
Kristi Livermont
Sarah Wulff
Quality Champion: Sarah Wulff, infection preventionist and improvement adviser, Sanford Health.
Young Professional: Kristi Livermont, administrator, Avera Missouri River Health Center in Gettysburg, and vice president facilities, St. Mary’s in Pierre.
Larry Veittz Lifetime Achievement Award: Bob Sutton, Avera Health.
Other organizations also presented awards at the SDAHO annual convention.
American Hospital Association Grassroots Champion Award: Corey Brown, system vice president, government affairs, Sanford Health.
AHA Political Action Committee’s Most Valuable Player Award: Jason Merkley, president/CEO, Brookings Health System.
American College of Healthcare Executives Senior Level Healthcare Executive Regent’s Award: Ashli Danilko, CEO of St. Michaels Hospital Avera in Tyndall.
ACHE Regents Award for Healthcare Leadership: Jesse Naze, chief financial officer with Fall River Health Services in Hot Springs.
LifeSource South Dakota Hospital Partner Award Excellence in Donation for 2022-2023: Sanford USD Medical Center.
LifeSource Excellence in Partnership Award: South Dakota Association of Healthcare Organizations.
South Dakota Association of Healthcare Quality’s Quality Professional of the Year: Cheri Fast, health care associated infection consultant with the South Dakota Foundation for Medical Care and co-leader of Project Firstline.
Health Information and Management Systems Society of the Dakotas Chapter’s Leadership in Excellence Award: Eli Seely, past president for the affiliate group and a strategist for Avera Health.
HIMSS Achievement Award: Holly Arends, senior consultant with Health Tech Solutions, Quality Consulting LLC.
South Dakota Organization of Nurse Leadership’s Nurse Leadership Award: Carol Stewart, associate professor of nursing and director of the graduate nursing program at Mount Marty University.
South Dakota Healthcare Social Work Association’s Social Worker of 2023: Kassandra Frey, coordinated care social worker with Avera Medical Group Family Medicine Clinic in Yankton.
