10-28-2025
Rich Rasmussen is President of Okla. Hospital Association He is only the fifth executive to lead the organization in its 104-year history.
Rasmussen has served in executive leadership roles in the health care industry for more than 30 years. Most recently, he was president and CEO of the Montana Hospital Association. There he successfully led the association’s efforts to reauthorize Medicaid expansion, double the size of the state’s Medicaid supplemental payment program, and modify the state’s medical liability and telehealth laws.
Rasmussen served in leadership roles at the Florida Hospital Association including vice president for member relations, vice president for legislative affairs, and vice president of strategic communications. In his membership relations role, he also served as chief administrative officer for the FHA Research and Education Foundation and chief strategy officer for FHA Services Corporation.
Early in his career, Rasmussen was a press assistant with the U.S. Senate Budget Committee and later, director of government relations at Orlando Health. He holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from Florida Southern College.
Rich and his wife, Judy, have five adult children. Judy was born in Norman and lived here while her father was the swimming coach at the University of Oklahoma in the 1970s.
