According to reports, former South Dakota Secretary of State Shantel Krebs, who lost the 2018 Republican Congressional Primary to Dusty Johnson, has recently been named the interim leader of Avera St. Mary’s in Pierre.
Former state lawmaker and Secretary of State Shantel Krebs has been named the interim leader of Avera St. Mary’s hospital in Pierre.
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Krebs served in both the House and Senate of the South Dakota legislature from 2005 to 2015. She served as Secretary of State from 2015 to 2019.
Feller did not say if Krebs, who previous lived outside Fort Pierre, would be moving to the area or working in the interim role remotely.
Avera is a joke around Pierre after this hire. Her experience running anything is so miniscule. Her shoe store is in the ground, the secretary of State staff Barnett inherited dreaded coming to work with her.
Are there really no qualifications or experiences required to run a hospital? Just have political clout?
What are your skills that make you qualified to run a hospital with 500 employees and a $100 million budget?
I ran a shoe store.
How many people worked there?
Myself.
It’s still open?
No. But it was so successful I just had to shut it down because it took so much of my time.
Your hired. I’ll tell them to stop interviewing anyone else.
Everyone I talk to from Pierre brings this up, and no one is happy about it.
Sounds like the comment section is full of Pierre people who were passed up on a promotion.