Ms. Hunter is president of Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, part of Maywood, Ill.-based Loyola Medicine, a nationally ranked academic, quaternary care system. Gottlieb Memorial is a 235-licensed-bed community hospital that includes the Judd A. Weinberg Emergency Department, the Loyola Center for Metabolic Surgery and Bariatric Care, Loyola Cancer Care & Research at the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Center, acute rehabilitation, a transitional care center, a childcare center and a fitness center. A transformational executive with a deep history at Loyola Medicine, Ms. Hunter held progressive leadership roles at the system’s MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, Ill. from 2012 to 2019, beginning as an administrative fellow and advancing to director of business operations. She then served as director of hospital operations at Gottlieb Memorial from 2019 to 2021, where she oversaw procedural, ancillary and community-based departments, played a pivotal role in Covid-19 response and helped launch key health equity initiatives. Most recently, she served as COO at Northwest Health in Valparaiso, Ind., where she led significant growth in procedural volume and introduced new service lines. Ms. Hunter rejoined Gottlieb Memorial in September 2025, and that same year the hospital earned its first Magnet designation for nursing care, and its hip and knee replacement program was recognized as a Blue Distinction Center+ by Blue Cross Blue Shield.
