Angelique Richard, PhD, RN, CENP
Chief Nursing Officer and Senior Vice President of Hospital Operations, Rush University Medical Center
Angelique Richard, PhD, RN, CENP
Chief Nursing Officer and Senior Vice President of Hospital Operations, Rush University Medical Center
Angelique Richard, PhD, RN, CENP, has served as chief nursing officer of Rush University Medical Center since October 2016 and for the Rush System since 2018. In these roles, she provides administrative oversight and accountability for professional nursing practice, operations and performance improvement. She also serves as senior vice president of hospital operations. In partnership with the system's chief medical officer, she also supports, facilitates and advances nurses' role in Rush's collaborative and multidisciplinary approach to delivering care.
Under Richard's leadership, in fiscal year 2019 the Medical Center achieved a patient satisfaction rating that places it in the top 13% of hospitals nationwide that use the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey of inpatients. Her guidance also has helped the Medical Center maintain its Magnet designation from the American Nurses Association, which measures an institution's strength and quality of nursing. Rush University Medical Center has achieved Magnet status for five consecutive designation periods.
In 2019, Richard took on the additional role of acting senior vice president of hospital operations for Rush University Medical Center. In this position, she focuses on developing and implementing strategies to help the Medical Center sustain excellence in its quality and safety, patient experience, employee engagement, care delivery and thoughtful growth.
A nationally recognized leader in nursing, she serves on the nurse executive advisory council of the Joint Commission, the accrediting and certification body for more than 22,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States, and on the nursing executive advisory board of the chief nursing officer network of Vizient — the nation's largest health care improvement company.
Richard came to Rush after serving as chief nurse executive and vice president of clinical operations for the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA). She represented the SCCA as the only invited nurse to serve on Vice President Joseph Biden's National Cancer Moonshot Summit in Washington, DC, in 2016.
She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in nursing at the Rush University College of Nursing and holds a doctorate in nursing from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Nursing.
