Who's Who in Health Care: David S. Fox, President, Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital, Downers Grove

David S. Fox is president of Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital, a 300-bed hospital in the heart of DuPage County. Over the past 40 years, Good Samaritan has evolved into a nationally recognized leader in health care.

Under Fox's leadership, the hospital has been named a 100 Top Hospital by Truven Health Analytics seven times and remains the only health care organization in Illinois to earn the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, an honor achieved in 2010. Good Samaritan Hospital is home to DuPage County's only Level I trauma center and Level III perinatal services, the state's highest designation. It also has achieved Magnet status, the highest national recognition for nursing care.

In 2015, the hospital broke ground on a three-story, 110,000 square-foot addition atop its existing West Pavilion. The expansion will consist of 96 private patient rooms and upon completion in early 2017, all the hospital's remaining semiprivate rooms will be converted into private rooms. Also in 2015 Good Samaritan Hospital opened the Deb and Alan Feldman Cardiovascular Pavilion, expanding cardiac rehabilitation and diagnostics and bringing them closer to the observation unit and catheterization laboratory. An expanded Cancer Center is expected to open in 2017, adding outpatient chemotherapy services and additional physician offices to the hospital campus.

Good Samaritan Hospital is part of Advocate Health Care, the largest health care system in Illinois and one of the leading health care systems in the country.

Fox has spent his career in health care administration, joining Good Samaritan Hospital as its president in 2003. He earned his master of business administration in hospital and health care facilities administration/management from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and a bachelor of arts in English and economics from Haverford College in Haverford, Penn.