It’s not surprising Don Wegmiller was elected to the Healthcare Hall of Fame this year. The honor crowns an already brilliant career that enters into yet another phase with seemingly undiminished vigor. Today at 74 he is Chairman of the Scottsdale Institute, a post he accepted after Founder and Chairman Stan Nelson passed away last summer. Don’s career has rivaled his old friend’s. Born in tiny Cloquet, Minn., he was raised in nearby Duluth. Turning down a full baseball scholarship to Arizona State, he earned a double major in economics and psychology at the University of Minnesota Duluth. After earning a master’s in hospital administration from the U. of Minnesota he became assistant administrator at Fairview Southdale Hospital in Minneapolis, where he took the CEO job in 1966, at 27. In 1978 Don was recruited as CEO at Minneapolis-based HealthCentral, which by the time he left in 1993 had grown to 23 hospitals and become Allina Health System. The lack of historical models for running a system led him and other pioneering system CEOs to create a forum for idea-sharing called Associated Hospital Systems, now Premier. Don left Allina to become president and CEO of Clark Consulting, which during his 15-year tenure he built into Integrated Healthcare Strategies, the nation’s largest healthcare executive-compensation firm. In 2002 Modern Healthcare named him one of “Healthcare’s 100 Most Powerful People.” Today he lives in Scottsdale and Minnesota with Janet, his wife of 55 years. They have three children and six grandchildren.