Avera Flandreau
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After a career that started when he was in high school, Avera Flandreau hospital administrator Scott Hargens has left his position to take a job as the CEO at Select Medical in Sioux Falls.
Hargens, 35, had been with Avera for 19 years, starting in the Sioux Falls hospital’s food service area washing dishes and working at the grill while he was a student at O’Gorman High School. He rose through the ranks and most recently was the administrator for Avera in both Flandreau and Dell Rapids, where he worked for six years.
He starts in June at Select, which is a long-term acute care hospital that has about 100 employees and 24 beds. Hargens said he was recruited for the position by a college friend. Select, which is a hospital within a hospital, is located at Sanford in Sioux Falls and also works with Avera and Monument Health.
“I felt God called me to this new challenge,” he said last week before leaving Avera. Hargens takes with him a gratitude and fondness for his experiences at Avera and his work with the Sisters of the Catholic-based hospital.
In the interim until a new administrator is named, Flandreau and Dell Rapids locations will be managed by Bryan Breitling, administrator at Avera Hand County Hospital and Clinic in
Miller and a regional administrator overseeing six critical access hospitals. Flandreau and Dell Rapids are in his region.