Matt Walsh is executive vice president and chief operating officer at RUSH. He is responsible for operations across RUSH, including RUSH University Medical Center, RUSH Oak Park Hospital and RUSH Copley Medical Center.
In this role, Walsh focuses on achieving key initiatives related to financial strength, quality, equity and employee engagement and advancing RUSH-wide strategies.
Walsh previously served as executive vice president and chief operating officer at Geisinger in Pennsylvania. At Geisinger, Walsh co-led its clinical enterprise of 3,200 providers, 11 hospital campuses and over 250 outpatient clinics and surgery centers. He also led corporate services including IT, facilities, the patient contact center and the transformation office. Prior to that, he spent nearly 20 years with the Henry Ford Health System in Michigan in multiple leadership roles.
Walsh earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and his Master of Health Administration degree from the University of Phoenix and was recently named one of Becker’s 2023 COOs to Know. Walsh serves on the Miller Center YMCA Board and previously served on the boards for the American Diabetes Association and Focus: HOPE.