Skillings named Niobrara Community Hospital C.E.O.

For the Herald
Posted 10/18/17

The Niobrara Community Hospital Board of Directors has selected Michelle Skillings as the permanent Chief Executive officer.

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Skillings named Niobrara Community Hospital C.E.O.

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The Niobrara Community Hospital Board of Directors has selected Michelle Skillings as the permanent Chief Executive officer.

Michelle is a Registered Nurse with over 30 years’ experience as a Chief Nursing Officer/Administrator. Her background in Acute and Long Term Care facilities ranges from large, small, urban, and rural, and includes critical access hospitals. A graduate of St. Louis Community College, Michelle obtained her Associate of Applied Science degree. In 1993, she graduated with her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Webster University, in St. Louis, Missouri. In 2007, Michelle obtained her Masters in Healthcare Administration from the University of Phoenix. Michelle has a certification in Health Care Quality, and brings extensive experience in long term care and critical access hospital administration. She feels focusing on high-quality patient care, patient safety, and remaining an advocate for both patients and staff is an integral part of providing a high level of care at rural facilities like ours.

Michelle began at Niobrara Community Hospital in May of 2015, just in time to live through the flood in Lusk. It was a certainly challenging time! Niobrara Community Hospital received recognition for their disaster response during the flood of 2015 from the State of Wyoming.

Michelle says, “I am proud to be part of this team”. Michelle considers one of her biggest accomplishments to be the reinstatement of Niobrara Community Hospital’s trauma designation, and a very successful critical access survey.  It was a lot of hard work for the entire team, and special thanks to Jennifer Arnold, RN for helping to make it all happen.