Michael Riordan
President & CEO, Greenville Hospital System

Mr. Michael Riordan President & CEO Greenville Hospital System

Michael C. Riordan began his duties as president and CEO of Greenville Hospital System on August 15, 2006. From 2001 to mid-2006, Riordan led the University of Chicago Hospitals and Health System, which was named to U.S. News & World Report’s prestigious Honor Roll of America’s Best Hospitals—the top 16 hospitals in the nation. The nearly 600-bed teaching hospital is staffed by University of Chicago physicians and ranked by net patient revenue as one of Chicago’s largest hospitals.

While there, he guided a strategic process that led to Vision 2010, a plan that resulted in an unprecedented period of financial success and introduced a way of thinking about institutional excellence that dramatically changed the organizational culture at UCHHS, leading to breakthroughs in patient, employee and physician satisfaction ratings. The state-of-the-art Comer Children’s Hospital opened during this time as well. In addition, the system embraced diversity by changing the face of the Board of Trustees and Senior Management Group to include more women and minorities in key leadership roles. Vision 2010 also reached out to the community by collaborating with local healthcare providers to deliver high-quality care in the most appropriate setting and with education and social services organizations to support the needs of community members.

Before that time, Riordan served as chief operating officer and, later, senior associate administrator of Emory University Hospital in Atlanta and Crawford Long Hospital. He also served for three years in the U.S. Marine Corps as a lieutenant.

Professional and civic affiliations include serving as a leader in the Association of American Medical Colleges, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, Illinois Business Roundtable, the Institute of Medicine of Chicago, the Illinois Hospital Association’s blue ribbon panel on Medicaid, Workforce Chicago 2.0 Business Leadership Group, the Chicago Club, the Commercial Club, the University Club of Chicago and the Economic Club.

He received his bachelor’s degree in liberal arts/English from Columbia University in New York in 1980 and completed his master’s degree in education/psychology from Columbia in 1981. He earned a master’s of science degree in health systems from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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