Meet The Council

Therese A. Fitzpatrick, Ph.D., MS, RN, FAAN

Senior Vice President

Kaufman, Hall & Associates, LLC

Therese Fitzpatrick is a Senior Vice President of Kaufman Hall and a member of the firm’s Performance Improvement practice, specializing in Strategic Cost Management. Her responsibilities focus on providing consultation to hospitals and health systems across the country in assessing their clinical and operational performance and developing effective strategies to enhance efficiencies and optimize staffing.

Dr. Fitzpatrick has 40 years of healthcare experience spanning operations and policy development in local, regional, and global markets. Her areas of expertise include strategic management of clinical and administrative services, analytic and financial competencies, labor relations and contract negotiations, and strategic workforce optimization with specialty focus in developing clinical staffing algorithms based on advanced modeling and scheduling policy. 

Prior to joining Kaufman Hall, Dr. Fitzpatrick was a Principle and Practice Operations Lead for Philips Healthcare North America. In that role she provided strategic and analytical support to governments, regional entities, and individual hospitals and health systems in creating sustainable population health solutions and clinical/business performance improvement across the continuum of care. Her previous positions include serving as Executive Vice President at Assay Healthcare Solutions and The Optimé Group, as Senior Vice President at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare.

Dr. Fitzpatrick holds a Ph.D. in Urban Studies from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and a Masters in Nursing Administration and a B.S.N., both from DePaul University. She was inducted into the American Academy of Nursing in 2016 and as a member of the AHA’s Committee on Governance in 2020. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the College of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago and in the College of Nursing at Augusta University. She has authored a number of peer reviewed articles as well two books; Claiming the Corner Office and (2013) and The Healthcare Executive’s Guide to Navigating the Surgical Suite (2019).