MRHC CEO named to Becker’s “CEOs to know” list

Posted on: 2/21/20

David Keith, president and CEO, McAlester Regional Health Center, has been named as one of Becker’s Healthcare’s 60 rural hospital CEOs to know in 2020.  

Becker’s accepted nominations for this list and considered leaders making a positive impact on their organizations. The CEOs featured lead hospitals consistently recognized by the National Rural Health Association, American Hospital Association, IBM Watson Health and The Leapfrog Group as top institutions. Others sit on local chamber of commerce boards and serve state hospital associations. Almost all have presided over expansion and strategic change within their organizations.

Keith has more than 30 years of health care administrator experience. His tenure as chief executive at the 171-bed McAlester Regional began in 2011. Since that time, he’s overseen an $11.8 million investment in a new emergency center, added family medicine and internal medicine residency programs, recruited specialists, and added new outpatient service lines and inpatient tertiary services. Keith is also a member of the OHA board of directors.