Bruce Elegant, FACHE, MPH

Bruce Elegant, MPH, has more than 30 years of successful experience in health care management.  After a brief engagement with the Joint Commission in Administrative Services, he spent 15 years as an executive at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System in Chicago.  Since 1997, he has served as president and chief executive officer of Rush Oak Park Hospital.  Elegant is also vice president for hospital operations at Rush University Medical Center, where he is a member of the Board Finance Committee of Rush Health. He is an assistant professor and course director for the capstone strategic management course. Elegant is a Fellow of the American College of Health Executives, which in 1998 awarded him the Senior Healthcare Leadership Award.  He holds a master’s degree in public health from the University of Illinois at Chicago.