SALT LAKE CITY — The Department of Veterans Affairs has appointed Shella Stovall as the permanent director of the VA Salt Lake City Health Care System. She will oversee delivery of health care to more than 65,000 enrolled veterans with an operating budget of $445 million.

Stovall has served as acting director of the facility since March 2016. She has held several leadership roles there, including associate director of patient care services from February 2009 to March 2016 and associate chief nurse for ambulatory care from November 2005 to February 2009.

She graduated with a nursing degree from Newman Hospital School of Nursing in Emporia, Kansas, and received her bachelor's degree in nursing at Westminster College. Stovall earned her master's in nursing administration at the University of Phoenix and is working on her doctorate in health care administration.

She is a member of the American Nurses Association, Nurses Organization of Veterans Affairs and Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. She received her certification in nursing administration from the American Nurses Credentialing Center and holds a voluntary adjunct faculty appointment at the University of Utah.