Cynthia Barginere

Cynthia is accountable for achieving our goals across all adult inpatient programs and key adult service lines. She will oversee the strategy, finances, quality, safety, work culture, and operations and management of clinical services for adult services for our Parnassus, Mission Bay, and Mount Zion campuses. Cynthia will immediately focus on efforts to improve our inpatient throughput and optimize patient flow across all of our sites.

Cynthia has more than 20 years of experience in leadership positions in academic and complex teaching facilities, and in developing physician leader partnerships. She most recently served as COO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in Boston, where she was responsible for the institute’s $53 million profit and loss, and oversaw strategy, business development and operational execution. Prior to IHI, she was senior vice president, chief transformation officer for Rush System for Health, and senior vice president, chief operating officer for Rush Hospital.