Keith & Ginger Myers and Family
2024 Spring Gala Honorees

Keith G. Myers is co-founder of LHC Group and served as chairman and CEO from 1994 until the company’s merger with Optum in 2023. Mr. Myers helped establish LHC Group as a single freestanding home health agency in rural St. Landry Parish, La. Along with his

wife Ginger, a nurse, and a core group of concerned residents, he began out of concern for four elderly members of his small community who were unable to access home health services due to their rural location. From this foundation, they built what would become one of the largest and highest quality in-home healthcare providers in the U.S. – a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: LHCG) with 29,000 employees supporting more than 900 agency locations serving cities, towns, and communities in 38 states and the District of Columbia.

Mr. Myers is a co-founder, board member, and current chairman of the Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare in Washington, D.C., and a co-founder and former board member of the Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation. In June 2003, Mr. Myers was named Regional Entrepreneur of the Year in the field of healthcare services and inducted into the National Entrepreneur of the Year Hall of Fame in November of the same year. In 2015, he was inducted into the National Home Care & Hospice Hall of Fame.

Mr. Myers has served on technical expert panels (TEP) that advise the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and other key Washington, D.C., policymakers. He has participated in data analysis and the preparation of numerous home care policy white papers, research, and presentations to CMS, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), White House Administrations, and members of both the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives. He currently serves as a Board Member of the Louisville Health Care Council, and previously served as a CEO Member of Healthcare Leadership Council in Washington, D.C., and a CEO member of the American Hospital Association.

Ginger Myers helped found LHC Group in 1994 after she noticed a need in her small community of Palmetto, La. – limited access to healthcare, especially for elderly residents. Before and after her 12-hour nursing shifts at Opelousas General Hospital, she began offering her time, knowledge, kindness, and skills to those in need by visiting and caring for them in their homes. She founded the company at the urging of community leaders, who knew that elderly rural residents of the area desperately needed access to care at home. Her efforts made healthcare more accessible for her community and led to the founding of St. Landry Home Health – the single small agency that would become LHC Group. Mrs. Myers was the agency’s first nurse. Her passion for serving others inspired the agency’s simple yet powerful purpose statement: “It’s All About Helping People” – which still serves as the company’s foundational mission statement.

As the company’s first nurse, her approach to nursing and caring for her community formed the foundation of LHC Group’s unique company culture of service to families, communities, and co-workers at a local and personal level. Throughout almost three decades, that message has found its way across the United States and carried the company to great success in every market it serves. Today, this homegrown and locally based location proudly provides approximately 12 million patient encounters each year – with 30,000 employees at more than 970 locations in 37 states and the District of Columbia.

Mrs. Myers worked in St. Landry Parish in the nursing and administrative fields of medicine for more than two decades. During these years, she was employed as a nursing supervisor for the LaHaye Eye Center and was active in opening the first outpatient ophthamlic surgery center in the parish. She also worked for Doctor’s Hospital and was active in coordinating one of the first rural health clinics in the state, located in Melville, La.

Mrs. Myers served as chairman of the board for the Opelousas Women’s Club, a committee member for the St. Landry/Evangeline American Heart Association Heart Gala, and a member of the executive committee of Go Red For Women. She, along with her husband, Keith Myers, received the Leaders in Philanthropy Award for St. Landry Parish in 2013.  Mrs. Myers received the St. Landry Chamber Business Woman of the Year Award for 2002. She is a member of the Acadian Business Hall of Fame and, in 2018, was inducted into the Homecare Association of Louisiana Hall of Honor. She served on LHC Group’s Board of Directors for nine years and is currently on the board of the Hospice Promise Foundation.