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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