Meet the new Banner Payson Medical Center CEO, Hoyt Skabelund. Fresh from Colorado and replacing Lance Porter, who moved within the Banner System to serve as CEO at Wyoming Medical Center in Casper, Wyo.
2020 has been a year of many hats worn by Skabelund. He began the year as CEO of Sterling Regional Med Center in Sterling, Colo., within the Banner System. As he now joins BPMC as CEO, he is coming from the CEO position for Banner s Northern Colorado hospitals, having that role since only February of 2020.
Skabelund joined Banner in 2014 as CEO of Banner Churchill Community hospital and admits that he feels most at home in rural healthcare, having strong roots in rural community life.