Dr. Erik Mikaitis was appointed as Cook County Health’s Chief Executive Officer in October 2024, after serving in the Interim CEO role since November 2023.

Cook County Health has a storied legacy of caring for all patients, regardless of ability to pay or immigration status for nearly 200 years. Today, Cook County Health is one of the largest public health systems in the nation, serving as the safety-net for health care in Chicago and suburban Cook County. CCH is comprised of John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital and Provident Hospital, a robust network of more than a dozen community health centers, the Ruth M. Rothstein CORE Center, Cermak Health Services, which provides health care to individuals at the Cook County Jail and the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center, the Cook County Department of Public Health, and CountyCare, a Medicaid managed care health plan. The health system serves more than 600,000 individuals each year and has a $5 billion budget.

Under Dr. Mikaitis’ leadership, Cook County Health is embracing value-based care and other alternative payment structures, recentering the healthcare business model by aligning patient outcomes with provider reimbursement. Dr. Mikaitis is focused on expanding access to care, with achievements including the opening of the Bronzeville Health Center, the launch of a robotic surgery program, and increased utilization of virtual care platforms. He has also prioritized accelerating the rate of hiring, increasing the number of new staff by 33 percent and reducing the use of agency staff by 40 percent in his first year.

As CEO of Cook County Health, Dr. Mikaitis serves on the Illinois Health and Hospitals Association Board of Trustees, the America’s Essential Hospitals strategic planning committee and Wellvana’s Leadership Action Board.

Since joining Cook County Health as Chief Quality Officer in 2022, Dr. Mikaitis has served as a champion of quality and compliance, implementing evidence-based processes to improve the delivery of care across the system. He implemented numerous quality initiatives across CCH, including a new multifaceted strategy deployment system that resulted in significant improvements in patient outcomes. Dr. Mikaitis enhanced the system’s quality and safety dashboard and deployed a regulatory readiness program.

Dr. Mikaitis previously served as Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Franciscan Health Crown Point, where, among other duties, he led the development of safety protocols and processes during the COVID-19 pandemic and developed a new dashboard for communicating quality improvements to the board. Dr. Mikaitis also served as Medical Director of the Franciscan Health Accountable Care Organization in the northern Indiana and south suburban Chicago regions.

Mikaitis 博士是一位获得委员会认证的内科医生，他获得了伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校的理学学士学位、德保罗大学的工商管理硕士学位以及罗斯大学的医学学位。