Scott Christensen

Scott Christensen was named CEO of King’s Daughters Medical Center in August of 2022. Christensen brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the position. His career has been defined by his innovative response to changes in the healthcare landscape and by his marked success in varied settings, including rural healthcare and small community hospitals, large urban hospitals, and system-based healthcare. He joins KDMC after a career in various senior leadership roles with hospitals, medical centers, and physician practices in the Mississippi delta, the gulf coast of Florida, and central Illinois.

He is committed to achieving financial and quality outcomes for his facilities, chiefly through investing back into a hospital’s greatest asset – its employees and caregivers – and through fulfilling its mission to improve the quality of life for the surrounding area.

Christensen was born and raised in a small Midwestern town on the Mississippi River, where he was taught the values of family, education, and hard work alongside the importance of community leadership and adherence to the quality of his own moral character.

Christensen is currently Chairman of the Mississippi Hospital Association. He has been honored by his peers as a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and has earned statewide recognition as a Community Legend and Top CEO (twice). He has also been published in the Healthcare Financial Management Association for his strategic planning efforts in a challenging market. Christensen is active in the industry and communities he serves through various healthcare and community boards, the American Hospital Association Regional Policy Board, Mississippi Trauma Care System, Chamber & Economic Alliance, United Way, Big Brothers Big Sisters, and Rotary Club.