Hinsdale Resident William P. Santulli Appointed Treasurer of Illinois Health and Hospital Association Board
Santulli is the inaugural treasurer of the statewide Illinois Health and Hospital Association, resulting from the integration of the former Illinois Hospital Association and the former Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council. The integration brings together a combined 174 years of service to Illinois hospitals and health systems.
Previously, Santulli was the Chief Executive at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital. Before that, he was the Chief Operating Officer of New England Medical Center in Boston. He has served in key leadership positions with Iowa Health System in Des Moines, Unihealth America in Los Angeles and Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup, Washington.
Santulli holds a Master's degree in health care administration from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, a Master's degree in sociology/health services research from the University of Florida in Gainesville and a bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind.
About Advocate Health Care
Advocate Health Care is the largest health system in Illinois and one of the largest health care providers in the Midwest. Advocate operates more than 250 sites of care and 12 hospitals, including five of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals, the state's largest integrated children's network, five Level I trauma centers (the state's highest designation in trauma care), three Level II trauma centers, one of the area's largest home health and hospice companies and one of the region's largest medical groups. Advocate Health Care trains more primary care physicians and residents at its four teaching hospitals than any other health system in the state. As a not-for-profit, mission-based health system affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ, Advocate contributed $783 million in charitable care and services to communities across Chicagoland and Central Illinois in 2014.
About IHA
The Illinois Health and Hospital Association (IHA), with offices in Chicago, Naperville, Springfield, and Washington D.C., represents more than 200 hospitals and nearly 50 health systems as they care for their patients and communities. Its members range from major academic medical centers and teaching hospitals that train tomorrow's doctors and nurses, to community hospitals that transform advances in medicine and technology into better lives for patients, to rural and critical access facilities that bring high-quality patient care to the less populated regions of Illinois, to specialty institutions that care for patients in need of behavioral health, long-term care, or rehabilitation services. IHA is dedicated to strengthening and uniting hospitals and making high-quality, affordable health care available to all Illinois residents at the right time and in the right setting. To make this possible, IHA advocates for a redesigned health system and sustainable funding -- including new models of healthcare delivery and payment -- that support the Triple Aim of healthcare. For more information, see www.team-iha.org. Like IHA on Facebook. Follow IHA on Twitter.