Mr. Bhalla serves as the CXO for Advocate Health. The system employs almost 155,000 team members across 68 hospitals and more than 1,000 care locations, and also features a graduate medical education program with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. In his role, Mr. Bhalla unifies these two distinct functions under a shared culture of belonging, trust, innovation and excellence. He applies a multipronged, data-centric, systemic approach to burnout reduction and wellbeing improvement. Mr. Bhalla conducts an annual survey, participates in rounding and heads a leadership training program to create an environment of wellbeing for teammates. Prior to assuming his current role, he was Atrium Health’s first CXO, leading stakeholder collaboration and driving patient, provider, teammate and volunteer experience.
