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Senior Management Group

The senior management group comprises corporate officers and senior management.

Larry M. Goldberg

President and CEO, Loyola University Health System

Larry M. Goldberg serves as the president and chief executive officer of Loyola University Health System. Prior to joining LUHS in October 2011, Goldberg served as chief executive officer of Vanderbilt University Hospital, Nashville, Tenn., where he led a multiyear strategic positioning initiative for the medical center to improve profitability. Also while at Vanderbilt, he oversaw the planning and construction of a 141-bed critical-care patient tower and supported the development of the Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute.

 

Prior to joining Vanderbilt, Goldberg served as vice president of hospital operations at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago. In that role, he directly managed all support, diagnostic, therapeutic and ambulatory care services as well as critical operational activities. A frequent presenter and lecturer, Goldberg is a thought leader on health-care reform and the economics of medicine. He is involved in numerous organizations, including the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, the Partnership to Educate & Advance Kids, and is the founding member of the board of directors for the Joseph G. Nicholas Foundation for the Promotion of Youth Education. Goldberg received his Master of Health Administration degree from Duke University, Durham, N.C., in 1990 and his Bachelor of Science degree in health policy and administration from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1985.

Larry M. Goldberg

Wendy S. Leutgens, RN, MSN

Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

Wendy S. Leutgens, RN, MSN, a healthcare executive with more than 20 years of experience in hospital operations, nursing management and physician practice management, is chief operating officer of Loyola University Medical Center. Wendy previously served as associate hospital director of professional services at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, where she collaborated with other leaders to oversee the professional services division, encompassing radiology, pharmacy, laboratories, radiation oncology, access services, medical information services, allied health programs and acute rehabilitation services.

Wendy holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from East Carolina University, Greenville, graduating in 1987, and earned a Master of Science in Nursing from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, in 1991. Wendy will focus on initiatives to improve clinical effectiveness and support our financial health.

Wendy S. Leutgens, RN, MSN

Jay Sial

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Jay Sial serves as the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Loyola University Health System. Prior to joining LUHS in April 2012, Jay served as the Chief Financial Officer of University of Kentucky Healthcare Hospitals, Lexington, KY where he helped UK Healthcare achieve an operating margin in the top 10th percentile of academic medical centers nationwide. While at UK he also helped plan for the opening of a 1.2 million square foot replacement academic medical center which, in the first phase, included 128 inpatient beds, a new ED and nine operating rooms.

 

Prior to joining UK Healthcare, Jay was the Vice President of Finance at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA. Mr. Sial started his career in the health insurance sector and worked for a major HMO in southern California in Finance and Operations. He received his Master of Business Administration degree from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg in 1986 and his BA Honors degree in Economics and Accounting from Delhi University, India. Jay has a strong operational and strategic planning background, has been a guest lecturer at University of Miami and Babson College and is a member of the HFMA.

Jay Sial

Jennifer Rauworth

Vice President, Strategy and Patient Experience, Chief Administrative Officer

Jennifer Rauworth, a Chicago health-care strategist with special expertise in planning, operations and patient satisfaction programs, oversees the areas of strategy, planning and community benefit ministry. Jennifer was previously at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where she was employed for 10 years. Her most recent role at NMH was Director, Patient Experience. In this position, she worked to improve patient-satisfaction scores, achieving improvements across inpatient, outpatient, emergency services surgery and HCAHPS measures.

While at NMH she also served in various business development and planning roles, and was responsible for the development, implementation and monitoring of business and strategic plans. Jennifer received a B.A. in Economics from Notre Dame in 1993 and an M.B.A. in Marketing, Finance and Health Services from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University in 2000.

Jill M. Rappis

Vice President and General Counsel

Jill is responsible for the legal affairs of Loyola University Health System and also holds some responsibility for Trinity Health’s corporate legal matters. She serves as Secretary to the Boards of Directors for Loyola University Health System, Loyola University Medical Center and Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, and maintains the corporate records for those entities. Jill has been a part of LUHS since 1997, when she joined the medical center's legal team as associate general counsel.
 

Through the years, she has provided client counseling and legal advice in the areas of corporate risk management, clinical research, planned giving, intellectual property, student and faculty affairs, physician contracting, governance, litigation and corporate policies and procedures.

Prior to joining LUHS, Jill served as assistant general counsel for Loyola University of Chicago. Earlier, she was a litigation attorney with the law firm of Rooks, Pitts and Poust, Chicago. She earned her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky and her Law degree from Marquette University Law School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Jill M. Rappis

Daniel Post

Senior Vice President, Clinical Programs and Practice Development

Daniel Post is the Senior Vice President for Clinical Programs and Practice Development. He joined Loyola University Health System in 1984 and is currently responsible for Loyola's Ambulatory and Physician Practices which operate out of an integrated network of 34 facilities. He is also responsible for the leadership of Loyola’s Eight Clinical Service Lines (Oncology, Cardiovascular, Musculoskeletal, Primary Care, Neurosciences, Medicine/Surgery (Transplant), Children’s Health and Surgical Specialties) and their clinical programs. 

He leads Loyola’s Network Development efforts with its affiliate hospitals, health systems and physician groups.  Prior to this role he has held positions of increasing responsibility including Senior VP for Ambulatory Programs and Systems Services, Interim COO LUMC, VP Ambulatory Services, Administrative Director of Primary Care, Occupational Medicine , AD of Women’s Health Service Line, Director of Loyola’s Perinatal Network and Assistant Director Respiratory Care.

Mr. Post has served as a part-time faculty member at the College of Du Page and for the American Heart Association. He received his bachelor’s degree in science and master’s degree in business administration from Loyola University Chicago; he is a cum laude graduate of Moraine Valley Community College (Respiratory Care Practitioner).

Mr. Post currently serves on the board of RML Specialty Hospitals and Loyola’s Ambulatory Surgery Center in Oakbrook (LASCO) Partnership and has served on the boards of the Illinois Department of Finance and Professional Regulation, the Perinatal Association of Illinois as well as Plymouth Place, LaGrange Ill.

Daniel Post

David W. Hecht, MD

Senior Vice President, Clinical Affairs, Professor and chair, Department of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine; co-director, Infectious Disease & Immunology Institute.

Dr. Hecht was named chair of the Department of Medicine in January 2009, with administrative responsibility for the largest department within Stritch. He is a renowned infectious disease clinician and researcher who has been a member of the Stritch faculty for more than 20 years. He is the immediate past division director of the Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine. Dr. Hecht earned his medical degree from Stritch; he completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, and a fellowship in infectious disease and geographic medicine at Tufts University, Boston.

Dr. Hecht is certified by the American Board of Medicine. His current research focuses on antibiotic resistance in bacteria, and he has been a leader in the development of international testing guidelines for anaerobic bacterial strains. Dr. Hecht is a member of the American College of Physicians, the American Society for Microbiology and the Anaerobe Society of the Americas, among others, and a fellow of the Infectious Disease Society of America. He has published myriad scholarly articles and has been a guest lecturer at dozens of medical symposiums and conventions worldwide.

Ken Fishbain

Chief Operating Officer, GMH

Ken Fishbain became chief operating officer in 2008 and is responsible for all operations at Gottlieb Memorial Hospital and its ambulatory sites. As vice president of Loyola University Health System, he is responsible for leading the integration of clinical programs between Gottlieb and LUHS. He played a lead role in the integration of Gottlieb Memorial Hospital into the Loyola University Health System in 2008.

Previously, Ken was vice president of professional services at Gottlieb where he oversaw operations of all clinical departments plus surgical services, information systems, quality and risk management and contract oversight of hospital-based physician groups.

He also helped to bring several major clinical programs and facilities to Gottlieb including open-heart surgery in 1988 and, in 1994, what is now the Loyola Cancer Care & Research at the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Center at Melrose Park. He is also a board member at Gottlieb West Towns Physicians Health Organization.

Ken received a B.A. in economics from Northwestern University and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management there. He is a Fellow of the American College of Health Care Executives.

He is past board president of Highland Park & Deerfield Township High School District 113, and served two terms as a board member.

Donna Halinski

Vice President, Clinical Affairs and Office of the President

Ms. Halinski became associate vice president in 2005 and is responsible for academic administration in the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine and Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing. Additionally she manages the administrative offices of the president/CEO of Loyola University Health System. She began her career in health-care administration at Loyola in 1981 and has held positions of increasing responsibility, including administrative director, Office of the Provost; director of faculty and administrative services; and associate dean. Ms. Halinski earned her bachelor's degree and her master's degree in academic health care from DePaul University.
 

She also earned certificates from the Loyola University Chicago executive master of business administration program and the Harvard School of Public Health leadership development program in Boston.

Paula Hindle, RN, MSN, MBA

Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer

Ms. Hindle joined Loyola University Health System in 1997 as vice president. In 2004, she was named chief nurse executive of ambulatory services as well. She is responsible for nursing education and support services, social work, quality resource management, infection control and patient education. She has functioned in a nurse executive position for health-care providers for two decades. She received her bachelor of science degree in nursing from Fitchburg State College in Massachusetts, her master of science degree in nursing from Duke University and her master's degree in business administration from Simmons College in Massachusetts.
 

Ms. Hindle has been an active member of the American Organization of Nurse Executives, Massachusetts Organization of Nurse Executives, Virginia Organization of Nurse Executives, the Illinois Organization of Nurse Leaders and Sigma Theta Tau. In 1990, Ms. Hindle received the Outstanding Alumna Achievement Award from Simmons Graduate School of Management.

Vicky Piper

Vice President, Human Resources

Vicky Piper was appointed vice president of Human Resources in 2006. Prior to this appointment, Ms. Piper worked in healthcare in various roles, including Vice President of Human Resources at Vanguard Health Systems, West Suburban Health Care, Holy Cross Hospital and Good Shepherd Hospital and Human Resources Manager at Advocate Health Care and BroMenn Healthcare. Ms. Piper received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Blackburn College and her master’s degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Illinois State University.

Cari Reed

Chief Integrity Officer

Cari Reed joined Loyola University Health System as the Chief Integrity Officer in February 2012. She provides leadership and direction to the operation of the LUHS compliance program, referred to as the Organizational Integrity Program. The Organizational Integrity Program helps ensure that the organization fully complies with various regulations and laws that apply to our business activities, as well as internal policies and procedures.
 

Before joining Loyola, she worked as Chief Compliance Officer at Abington Health in Pennsylvania, an organization with more than 6,000 employees and 1,400 physicians. There, Reed advised the CEO and Board of Trustees on regulatory matters, program initiatives and risks to the facilities. She helped in investigations related to reimbursement, code of conduct, HIPAA privacy and employee concerns. Before that, Reed was the Director of Compliance and Risk Management at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in New Jersey. At the Saint Barnabas Health Care System, she helped implement the organization’s formal compliance program at individual facility locations throughout New Jersey. She received her masters degree in health law from Seton Hall University School of Law, and a bachelors in international environmental studies from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

Additional members

Biographies and photos coming soon.
Lori Price
President, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital
 
Fr. John O'Callaghan
Vice President, Ministry
 
Mary Morrow
Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital