During O’Keefe’s tenure, UChicago Medicine built and opened the 1.2 million-square-foot Center for Care and Discovery; created a culture of high reliability and operational excellence that has resulted in 17 consecutive A grades for hospital safety from the health watchdog Leapfrog Group; acquired and integrated the Ingalls Memorial community health system; expanded outside of Hyde Park with the opening of ambulatory centers in Orland Park, the South Loop and River East; and opened a larger adult emergency department with a Level 1 adult trauma center.
Earlier in her career, O’Keefe served in leadership roles in some of the nation’s top academic medical centers, including Johns Hopkins Medicine and the University of Maryland Medical System in Baltimore, Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston, Barnes-Jewish Medical Center in St. Louis and Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago.
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