 
Wallace Boyd is the
2009 Gordon Russell Award Winner!
Congratulations Mr. Boyd!
The TORCH
Annual Award Luncheon is also the time during which we
honor a rural hospital administrator who embodies this
spirit of superior service to their local community. In
recognition of three decades of service in healthcare
and to rural hospitals, including CEO at Perryton,
Kansas, Alaska and Oklahoma, Wally Boyd has been named
the recipient of the 2009 “Gordon Russell Merit Award.”
This award exists to recognize outstanding achievement
by rural and community hospital administrators for their
leadership and dedication to the profession. Gordon
Russell, the award’s namesake, was the administrator of
Hi-Plains Hospital for over 40 years and a former mayor
of Hale Center, TX. Mr. Boyd was selected for his
dedication to rural hospital administration, his active
involvement in TORCH as a former Board Member, as well
as many other civic and professional contributions.
Mr.
Boyd began his career in healthcare in 1979 as Director
of Support Services for the hospital in Claremore,
Oklahoma. After working as the Assistant Administrator
at the Children’s Medical Center in Tulsa and for the
Great Plains Health Alliance, he went to Nome, Alaska to
be the Director of the Norton Sound Health Corporation’s
Hospital Services Division. Wally then returned to the
lower 48 and became administrator of Bob Wilson Memorial
Hospital in Ulysses, KS. He then worked for the U.S.
Public Health Service/Indian Health Service in Oklahoma
before moving back to Perryton in 1994.Wally is a Fellow
in the American College of Healthcare Executives and has
both a Bachelor of History/Political Science and a
Master of Public Health degree. He is a licensed
minister, THIE board member, Past-president of the
Northwest Texas Hospital Association and the Coalition
of Health Services.
In the
nomination letter by John Henderson, CEO of Childress
Regional Medical Center, it was written, “Wally has
accomplished what we all set out to do – he has made a
difference. Over his 30 year career, he has touched
countless lives through his work as a civic leader,
minister, mentor and hospital CEO.” TORCH wishes to
congratulate Wally Boyd on being selected as this year’s
recipient of the Gordon Russell Merit Award. The honor
is well deserved.

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