Loyola Medicine Names Melissa Lukasick as Regional Chief Financial Officer
September 26, 2021Categories: Loyola Medicine
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MAYWOOD, IL – Loyola Medicine recently announced Melissa Lukasick has been named regional chief financial officer.
Lukasick began her career with Loyola Medicine in 2004, serving in a variety of roles, and has assumed increased leadership responsibility and scope throughout her tenure. Most recently, she served as regional vice president of finance operations for Loyola Medicine before stepping in as interim regional chief financial officer in July 2021.
Lukasick has worked with senior leadership at Loyola Medicine on the execution of a significant organizational turnaround to ensure financial stability. She has led many financial system implementations, process improvement initiatives and regionalization exercises. She also served as a key finance lead throughout Trinity Health's acquisition of Loyola Medicine and later integration of MacNeal Hospital. Lukasick is a member of the strategic investment and administrative policy committees and is active in Loyola Medicine's Diversity & Inclusion steering and action committees.
Lukasick received her Bachelor of Science in accounting and management information systems from the University of Indianapolis. She went on to receive her Master of Business Administration from Northern Illinois University. She presently lives with her partner, Meagan Del Sarto, in the southwest suburbs.
About Loyola Medicine
Loyola Medicine, a member of Trinity Health, is a nationally ranked academic, quaternary care system based in Chicago's western suburbs. The three-hospital system includes Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC), Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, MacNeal Hospital, as well as convenient locations offering primary care, specialty care and immediate care services from nearly 2,000 physicians throughout Cook, Will and DuPage counties. LUMC is a 547-licensed-bed hospital in Maywood that includes the William G. and Mary A. Ryan Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine, the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, the John L. Keeley, MD, Emergency Department, a Level 1 trauma center, Illinois's largest burn center, the Nancy W. Knowles Orthopaedic Institute, a certified comprehensive stroke center, transplant center and a children’s hospital. Having delivered compassionate care for over 50 years, Loyola also trains the next generation of caregivers through its academic affiliation with Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine and Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing.
Established in 1961, Gottlieb Memorial Hospital is a 247-licensed-bed community hospital in Melrose Park that includes the Judd A. Weinberg Emergency Department, the Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery and Bariatric Care, Loyola Cancer Care & Research at the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Center, acute rehabilitation, a transitional care center, childcare center and fitness center. MacNeal Hospital is a 374-licensed-bed teaching hospital in Berwyn with advanced medical, surgical and psychiatric services and a 68-bed behavioral health program.
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About Trinity Health
Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, faith-based health care systems in the nation. It is a family of 127,000 colleagues and more than 38,300 physicians and clinicians caring for diverse communities across 26 states. Nationally recognized for care and experience, the Trinity Health system includes 93 hospitals, 107 continuing care locations, the second largest PACE program in the country, 142 urgent care locations and many other health and well-being services. In fiscal year 2024, the Livonia, Michigan-based health system invested $1.3 billion in its communities in the form of charity care and other community benefit programs. For more information, visit us at www.trinity-health.org, or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and X (formerly known as Twitter).