Omar Lateef is president and CEO of Rush University Medical Center and president of Rush University System for Health. Lateef has worked with physicians and analysts across the nation to evaluate the methodology of quality rankings by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), U.S. News, and others. He was appointed to the National Advisory Council for Healthcare Research and Quality by the secretary of Health & Human Services and has greatly influenced how health care quality is reported in the United States. Modern Healthcare named Lateef to its 2021 list of the 100 most influential people in health care. Rush has received strong rankings on lists of hospital quality, including CMS (earning five stars), the U.S. News Best Hospitals Honor Roll, Newsweek, and Vizient.
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