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Fighting addiction: South Dakota nurse spent years administering treatment

Portrait of Jonathan Ellis Jonathan Ellis
Sioux Falls Argus Leader
Dr. Gene Regier and his wife, Carol Regier, are retiring from the Keystone Treatment Center, which they helped open on Aug. 17, 1973. Here they posed for a picture on June 17, 2021.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – When Carol Regier agreed to help set up the nursing station at the Keystone Treatment Center, she figured it would be a temporary assignment.

Regier was an operating room nurse at Sioux Valley Hospital, but she agreed to help her husband, Gene, who was the medical director at the newly established addiction treatment center in Canton, South Dakota, and a founding board member.