Jean M. Keeler

Biography

Jean Keeler is an attorney in the Business and Corporate Law practice group at Eastburn and Gray.

Prior to joining the firm, Jean spent nearly 25 years working in the healthcare industry where she served in various leadership positions. Initially, Jean was the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Grand View Health where she provided leadership and oversight for all legal affairs of the Board of Trustees and the administrative and clinical departments. In 2012, following a national search, Jean was named President and CEO of Grand View Hospital. Under Jean’s leadership the name was changed to Grand View Health and its mission, vision and values were all revised to more accurately reflect the role of Grand View in the Upper Bucks and Montgomery county communities.

Under Jean’s leadership the health system underwent an extensive period of growth. Some of those accomplishments include:

• Expanded the physical space of the hospital, almost doubling the size of the clinical space, as well as the expansion of service offerings, including the initiation of robotic surgery.
• Obtained level 2 trauma certification, the first in the Upper Bucks area.
• Added additional locations including a free standing orthopedic center, two new outpatient centers, including an outpatient surgical center.
• Formed an Independent Physician Network with the hospital to coordinate care.
• Added new specialties to provide care to the community close to home.
• Spearheaded and negotiated the formation of an alliance with Penn Medicine to bring collaboration and advanced care to the Grand View campus.

Jean guided the hospital during the first year and a half of the COVID pandemic, establishing protocols to care for the community and establishing vaccine clinics to vaccinate community residents when the vaccines became available.

Her business experience includes the negotiation of commercial real estate agreements as well as professional employment agreements and practice purchases; tax compliance issues related to exempt and non-exempt organizations; maintaining tax exempt status; health information and privacy services; corporate governance; fiduciary duties; managing conflicts of interest; corporate transactions; the formation of for profit and nonprofit subsidiaries; corporate strategic planning and human resources and executive compensation related matters.

Earlier in her career, Jean worked in private practice on matters related to litigation and business law. She began her legal career in the Bucks County District Attorney’s office.

Membership

Jean is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the Bucks County Bar Association.

She was a member of the Hospital and Health System Association of Pennsylvania (“HAP”) where she serves on the HAP Governance Committee. She was also a member of the American Hospital Association.

Bar Admission

Pennsylvania and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Honors and Awards

• In 2017, Philadelphia Business Journal named Jean as “one of the top women to watch in healthcare.
• In July, 2021 Jean was featured in Philadelphia Magazine as one of the “Faces of Women in Business” in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.

Volunteer and Community Work

• Jean served for close to 20 years on the board of directors and executive committee of Cassatt Insured Group, a captive insurance organization which provides medical, professional and other liability coverage to member healthcare organizations.
• Jean was Chair of the Mid-Atlantic Executive CEO Board of Vizient, a national purchasing improvement organization for hospitals and health systems.
• Jean served on the Board of Directors for the Bucks County Health Improvement Project, which serves the community members by offering medical care to those who cannot afford to pay.
• She provided leadership and direction to Gwynedd Mercy University in Montgomeryville, PA, by previously serving on the University’s Board of Trustees.
• She also served on the Board of Trustees of the Upper Bucks YMCA and was a member of several committees, including strategic planning.
• Jean has previously presented lectures on Healthcare and Business Law for the Bucks County Bar Association, DeSales University and Holy Family University.

Education

Jean received her J.D., magna cum laude, from Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law and her B.S. from DeSales University.