Overview
Austin M. Gillard, FACHE is the CEO of Clay County Medical Center (CCMC). CCMC is a 25-bed Critical Access Hospital with five rural health clinics. Under his leadership, CCMC has been awarded the Top 20 Critical Access Hospital in the United States in 2021 and 2020, along with being awarded the 2019 and 2017 Regional Governor’s Award of Excellence in the State of Kansas. Austin is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and was awarded the American College of Healthcare Executives Senior-Level Healthcare Executive Regent’s Award in 2022. Austin became a National Rural Health Association Rural Health Fellow in 2018. Austin started his healthcare career in Overland Park, KS as physician recruiter, placing physicians in Kansas and Missouri.