This year, after more than four decades at the helm of Avera Health, and on the brink of his 70th birthday, President and CEO John Porter will retire. Porter saw the health system through tremendous growth and change, including the transition from traditional hospital/nursing-home focus to fully-integrated care continuum. In the late 1990s, Porter helped facilitate the process of uniting the Benedictine and Presentation health systems in the co-creation of Avera Health. We talked with him about his tenure and his plans.