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Dahl Memorial Healthcare Association board members recently selected Ryan Tooke to fill the vacant chief executive officer (CEO) position.

Tooke brings both experience and education to the position. He received a Masters in Healthcare Administration from Montana State University-Billings, and has been the CEO at Rosebud Health Care Center in Forsyth, MT since 2010. Tooke was also the chief financial officer at Rosebud Health Care Center from 2007 to 2010. Prior to that, he worked as a mortician.

Tooke, a 1991 graduate of Carter County High School, plans to begin working at Dahl Memorial on July 1 of this year. Ryan is the son of Garth and Myrna Tooke of Ekalaka and will bring his wife and their three children to Ekalaka with him.