Mary Lou Mastro
System CEO
Edward-Elmhurst Health
Mary Lou Mastro, MS, RN, FACHE is System CEO of Edward-Elmhurst Health, a 721-bed system that includes Edward Hospital, Elmhurst Hospital and Linden Oaks Behavioral Health. With more than 35 years working in healthcare, Mastro has extensive experience in hospital strategy, operations, planning, licensure and regulatory compliance, public policy and advocacy, physician relations, new business development and, as a nurse, patient care. Mastro was President & CEO of Elmhurst Hospital from 2013-2016. During that time, Elmhurst was named one of Becker’s Hospital Review’s “100 Great Community Hospitals” (2014). Prior to joining Elmhurst Hospital and since 2002, Mastro was CEO of Linden Oaks at Edward, a 108-bed behavioral health hospital on Edward Hospital’s Naperville campus, with a 45,000-square foot Outpatient Center at another location in Naperville and outpatient offices throughout Chicago’s west and southwest suburbs. Mastro earned her BSN from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana and an MS from Rush University in Chicago.