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Elsie Lindgren

Enterprise Patient Safety Officer and Associate Vice President of Patient Safety and High Reliability

Advocate Health

Charlotte, NC

Ms. Lindgren provides enterprise leadership for patient safety strategy at Advocate Health, the nation’s third largest nonprofit health system, advancing a culture of safety and high reliability across acute, ambulatory and post-acute settings at more than 1,100 sites of care. She led the integration of five disparate patient safety event reporting platforms into a single enterprise learning system and standardized daily safety huddles systemwide, reinforcing early risk identification and shared accountability. Under her leadership, Advocate Health built a network of more than 3,000 safety champions across the enterprise and achieved year-over-year improvement in its annual culture of safety survey, with a completion rate exceeding 75%, representing more than 125,000 teammates. Advocate Health now outperforms the top quartile across every safety culture domain. In 2025, 24 Advocate Health hospitals earned Leapfrog “A” safety grades, placing the system among the top five nationally by number of “A” ratings.

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