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Cover Story: Recognizing the 2022 Areté Award Recipients
2022
Rooted deep in Greek history, Areté means excellence in all things. The notion of excellence is ultimately bound to the idea of complete fulfillment—the act of living up to one’s full potential. The St. George Area Chamber of Commerce set out to find and recognize business and community leaders of the highest caliber who had significantly impacted the community, excelled in their professions, and devoted time and resources to the betterment of the St. George area. These leaders were presented with the Areté Award, the most prestigious award given by the Chamber and reserved for those who have dedicated their lives to excellence and service. The Southern Utah Business Magazine is pleased to introduce you to the 2022 Areté Award recipients.
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Terri Kane
Intermountain Healthcare is the north star for healthcare in the St. George area, and Terri Kane is at the center of it’s growth and innovation. When she retired as the vice president of Intermountain Healthcare for southern Utah in 2020, she had nearly forty years of experience in the fields of hospital operations, corporate operations, executive leadership, and nursing.
Terri is known as a champion of excellence. She led Intermountain’s Women & Children’s Clinical Program for five years and is recognized for her work with Intermountain’s clinical integration strategies. Under her leadership, Dixie Regional Medical Center (now St. George Regional Hospital) grew from 126 to 332 beds, including the addition of the River Road hospital campus. Open heart surgery, newborn intensive care, neurosurgery, Life Flight, level II trauma status, precision medicine, and many other significant additions and services were added to St. George Regional Hospital’s portfolio during her tenure as administrator. In 2011, Kane became the southwest regional vice-president, overseeing Dixie Regional, Cedar City, and Garfield Memorial hospitals. She is largely responsible for much of the healthcare landscape in the Washington County area today.
Terri is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. She received her MBA from the University of Phoenix and her undergraduate degree in nursing from Weber State University. She is a real estate agent with ERA Realty in St. George and continues to actively participate on local community and national healthcare advisory boards.
Dr. Wayne Provost
Dr. Wayne Provost attended the University of Utah as an undergraduate student and received his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine and Dentistry. While in private practice, he donated five years to the University of Utah Burn Center making obturators for burn patients.
After retirement from private practice, Wayne served in an executive position for FHP Health Care in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and California. Later, he founded P5 E-Health Services and P5 Provider Pay. He retired in Las Vegas, Nevada, prior to moving to St. George, Utah.
For the past fifty years, Wayne has been associated with multiple patents, including medical software, medical devices, dental fiber optics, green energy power sources, and re-sealable cartons.
Wayne and his wife, Donna, have dedicated the past fifteen years of their lives to helping others. They and their daughter Emma founded Teens Kickin’ Cancer, a high school youth leadership program, after the passing of their seventeen-year-old son and brother Dusty in 2009. Dr. Provost is the founding director of the Innovation Guidance and Solutions Center at Dixie State University, where he helps students and community members secure patents on their inventions and launch functioning businesses.
Stephen Wade
Founder and Chairman, Stephen Wade Auto Center
Stephen Wade was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He married Marcia Chalk of Mesa, Arizona, and they have four sons, one daughter, and twenty grandchildren. For many years, their family lived in Salt Lake City, but in 1993, St. George, Utah, became their home.
Stephen has been a new car automobile dealer since 1973. In 1981, he was elected president of the Utah Automobile Dealers Association and served as Utah’s representative for the National Automobile Dealers Association. In 2011, he was elected as the national chairman, representing America’s new car and truck dealers. In January 2013, he was inducted into the Utah Automobile Dealers Hall of Fame.
Stephen has owned multiple franchises in Utah and California and has served on numerous factory committees and boards. Currently, his franchises include Toyota, Chevrolet, Cadillac, Nissan, Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Jeep, Ram, Honda, Mazda, and Mercedes Benz/Sprinter in Utah.
Active in the St. George community, Stephen served twelve years as a trustee of Dixie State College (now known as Dixie State University), with seven of those years as its chairman. In 2007, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities degree. He served on the Select Health Board of Trustees from 2006 to 2012. In 2014, he was voted one of southern Utah’s most influential men. In 2016, Stephen was selected as a Significant Sig from Sigma Chi Fraternity. Currently, he is serving as trustee and representative for Dixie Applied Technology College.
