Members, staff and friends say farewell to Patti Davis
Posted on: 5/26/23
Patti Davis retires in June after nearly five years as OHA president and a 40-year career in health care. A reception was held in her honor yesterday following the OHA board meeting.
Among numerous other achievements, Davis directed OHA’s efforts on the hospital pandemic response, led the OHA’s effort to pass the Medicaid expansion voter initiative, and worked to ensure that the Medicaid managed care plan will strengthen health care in Oklahoma.
Davis has been president of the OHA since September 2018. She came to OHA from OU Medicine, where she served as senior vice president of external affairs, and prior to that, senior vice president of strategy and business development beginning in 2013. She was executive vice president at the OHA from 2001 to 2013, where she coordinated operations and special projects and led advocacy efforts on state and federal issues. She was OHA vice president, government relations from 1996 to 2001.
Before joining the OHA staff in 1996, Davis was CEO of Carnegie Tri-County Municipal Hospital. While in Carnegie, Davis served as chairman of the OHA board of directors and received the association’s highest award, the W. Cleveland Rodgers Distinguished Service Award.
Davis has been named to the Journal Record’s Fifty Making a Difference twice and as a Journal Record Health Care Hero twice. Davis also received the Oklahoma State Medical Association 2021 Don. J. Blair Friend of Medicine Award. She is a graduate of Leadership Oklahoma, Class XIII.
She will soon relocate to Kansas to be near her children and grandchildren.
The association will welcome
Rich Rasmussen as the next OHA president on June 1.