Silver Cross Hospital Names Michelle Bober Vice President of Strategy and Business Development

Silver Cross Hospital is pleased to announce the promotion of Michelle Bober, MBA, to Vice President of Strategy and Business Development. Bober, who joined Silver Cross in October 2020, most recently served as Administrative Director of Business Development and Service Lines.

Bober has more than 16 years of healthcare experience with expertise in strategic planning and growth, service line development, system integration, patient access, clinical operations improvement, and physician recruitment.

Prior to joining Silver Cross, Michelle held multiple leadership roles at Rush University Medical Center, including Service Line Administrator for the Rush Lung Center, Department Administrator of Cardiac/Vascular/Thoracic Surgery, and Director of Physician Development and Access. As part of the strategy team at Northwestern Medicine, she led system integration efforts for the Oncology Service Line across multiple hospitals. She also has extensive experience in physician recruitment and retention.

For the past 10 years, Bober has been an Instructor at Rush University, College of Health Sciences, and has published numerous articles related to enhancing patient access and provider productivity. 

At Silver Cross, Bober oversees the hospital’s academic partnerships, physician recruitment and retention, service line planning and execution, strategic planning, and leadership development. She has led the development of the hospital’s heart, lung, orthopedic and neurosciences service lines and was instrumental in bringing the hospital’s 24-bed Amy, Matthew and Jay Vana Neonatal Intensive Care Unit online last July.

Bober holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Iowa and a Master of Business Administration in Health Management from DePaul University.

For more information about Silver Cross Hospital, visit www.silvercross.org