Joyce Anne Wainio is an instructor for the College of Health Sciences and director of the executive health systems management program at Rush University in Chicago. She serves as course director for the graduate-level Managing Diversity course, guest lecturer on nonprofit governing boards and leadership, and a career advisor for health systems management students.
Wainio has extensive knowledge of business operations, program management, healthcare policy and finance, leadership development, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and international healthcare. She successfully created research-based best practice transformation across multiple organizations. Wainio has a strong ability to create and launch innovative national programs, while inviting and maintaining participant engagement over multiple years. Her career has spanned work in innovative not-for-profit healthcare organizations, the Federal government, national and state associations, and hospital management.
Wainio served as Vice President of the National Center for Healthcare Leadership (NCHL), a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to be a catalyst to assure that high-quality, relevant, and accountable health management leadership is available to meet the needs of 21st century healthcare. In this role, Wainio oversaw NCHL’s operations, research, member programs, marketing and communications, conferences, and fundraising. She was responsible for individual, team, and organizational assessments and national demonstration projects, including Nurse-Team Leadership, Graduate Health Management Education, and Diversity Leadership.
Prior to NCHL, Wainio served as director of member relations for the American Hospital Association (AHA) directly supporting CEO involvement in AHA’s work on key policy and advocacy issues. Her experience also includes the National Chronic Care Consortium; the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Office of Legislation and Policy; and the Washington Hospital Association.
