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Katherine Keene

Trustee at Salem Hospital

Katherine Keene has served on the board of Salem Health since 1996. She was CEO of Oregon’s largest workers’ compensation insurance company for 15 years. She worked for Marsh USA as a Managing Director while establishing the company’s National Workers Compensation practice, consulting with a range of Fortune 500 clients. Keene subsequently served as executive director of Capital Manor, a continuing care retirement community during the organization’s financial turnaround. She is now retired.

Keene has extensive involvement in the community, having served on the Board of Directors of the Salem Chamber of Commerce, Director of Umpqua Bank, member of the Board of the Oregon Symphony Association and volunteer for the Willamette Humane Society. For eight years, she served in volunteer national leadership roles for the American Hospital Association’s Committee on Governance and Leadership Development Committee.

Keene represents the community as a person outside of the health care field interested in insuring the community is provided with excellent and much needed health care options.