Spencer Grover, retired IHA vice president, founding member of the Indiana Rural Health Association (IRHA), and long-time IRHA board member, was honored at the 21st Annual Indiana Rural Health Association Conference with the Lifetime Service Award. Grover was a key author of the Indiana Critical Access Hospital Program, which has enabled 35 small, rural hospitals in Indiana to obtain and maintain critical access status for their communities. He was also instrumental in IHA’s emergency preparedness efforts over the past two decades, developing programming and administering grants to establish emergency resourcefulness across the state. He also helped spearhead the development of a network of trauma hospitals in Indiana by promoting trauma awareness at all levels of health care.​​​