Rural healthcare is an essential part of Oklahoma’s healthcare infrastructure. Across the state, community hospitals and clinics provide access to emergency care, primary care, diagnostics, and other services for patients who may otherwise face substantial barriers to receiving care close to home.

Oklahoma’s rural healthcare providers also face complex challenges. Workforce shortages, transportation barriers, technology needs, chronic disease, financial sustainability, and coordination between providers have all become important considerations in determining how rural healthcare will be delivered in the years ahead.

Kerith Brook Health views Oklahoma as an important market for developing long-term hospital partnerships centered on sustainable local healthcare.

Our Focus in Oklahoma

We believe the future of community healthcare requires more than reducing expenses. Sustainable hospitals need strong operations, thoughtful service-line strategies, effective revenue-cycle management, workforce planning, appropriate technology, and relationships with other providers throughout their region.

Kerith Brook Health is focused on opportunities where those capabilities can help strengthen an existing hospital and protect its role within the community.

Where appropriate, that can also mean exploring new models of care, regional collaboration, technology-enabled services, and other strategies designed around the realities of serving rural populations.

Our Approach

Kerith Brook Health pursues long-term partnerships with community and rural hospitals facing operational, financial, and strategic challenges.

Our objective is to help hospitals become stronger organizations while preserving access to healthcare close to home and respecting the communities, employees, physicians, and leaders who have built them.