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Chicago, IL-based Rush University Medical Center has Appointed Mary Ellen Schopp as Chief Human Resources Officer
About the Company
Rush is a not-for-profit health care, education and research enterprise comprising Rush University Medical Center, Rush University, Rush Oak Park Hospital and Rush Health. Rush University is home to one of the first medical colleges in the Midwest and one of the nation`s top-ranked nursing colleges, as well as graduate programs in allied health, health systems management and biomedical research. Rush has more than 8,000 employees, a medical staff of 890, and 650 physician residents and fellows. Rush is currently constructing a 14-floor, 806,000-square-foot hospital building at the corner of Ashland Avenue and Congress Parkway scheduled to open in 2012. It will house Rush`s acute and critical care patients and surgical, diagnostic and therapeutic services utilizing the most advanced technology available. The facility`s unique shape reflects four years of planning and input by hundreds of nurses, doctors and patients, whose ideas have influenced the design and layout. The new hospital, scheduled to open in 2012, is the centerpiece of a $1 billion, ten-year campus redevelopment plan called the Rush Transformation.
About the Person
\r\n Mary Ellen Schopp brings 25 years of experience in human resources to Rush, with a customer-focused perspective that will be valuable to our strategies to further improve the patient and family experience. Her strong background in leadership development will enable her to assist our staff with adapting to new models of care, improved information technology and our new facilities. For the past three years, Schopp was senior vice president of human resources and communications with Lawson Products, Inc., a Des Plaines-based global distributor of maintenance and repair supplies. In this role, she established a people strategy and vision focused on organizational effectiveness and employee engagement. She previously was a vice president of human resources at Conagra Foods, a consumer packaged foods company in Naperville. Prior to that, she was director of human resources for PepsiCo/Quaker in Chicago. At each organization, she focused on employee effectiveness, engagement and development with increased support for company goals. Mary Ellen received her bachelor’s degree in industrial/organizational psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and master of science degrees in industrial/labor relations and organization development from Loyola University.\r\n
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