
Chief Nursing Officer (CNO)
Chicago, ILFull-time$160–180K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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The Chief Nursing Officer serves as the facility’s clinical leader, collaborating with the CEO and Human Resources leader to address challenges and improve employee and patient experiences. The role leads a clinical team and works with respiratory and rehabilitation departments. The hospital seeks a nursing leader to manage staffing, quality of care, educational initiatives, and budgets. A BSN and current RN licensure are required; a master’s degree or enrollment in a master’s program is also required, with exceptions approved by the SVP, Clinical Operations.
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Overview
Position: Chief Nursing Officer
Location: Chicago, IL
Compensation: Annual Salary $160,000-$180,000 plus annual bonus incentives
Sign on bonus: $15,000
Added Perks: Company Paid Parking
RUSH Specialty Hospital is a critical illness recovery hospital committed to providing world-class inpatient post-ICU services to chronic, critically ill patients who require extended healing and recovery.We help patients during some of the most vulnerable, painful moments of their lives – and Respiratory Therapists (RT) play a central role in providing compassionate, excellent treatment every step of the way.
We support your career growth and personal well-being:
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Start Strong :Extensive and thorough orientation program to ensure a smooth transition into our setting
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Advance Your Career : Tuition reimbursement, and continuing education.
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Elevate Your Skills : Clinical ladder program.
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Ease the Burden : Student debt benefit program. Company Paid Parking.
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Recharge & Refresh : Generous PTO for full-time team members to maintain a healthy work-life balance
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Your Health Matters : Comprehensive medical/RX, health, vision, and dental plan offerings for full-time team members
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Invest in Your Future: Company-matching 401(k) retirement plan, as well as life and disability protection for full-time team members
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Your Impact Matters: Join a team of over 44,000 committed to providing exceptional patient car
Responsibilities
We are looking for a valued employee who will be a Champion of the Select Medical Way, which includes putting the patient first, helping to improve quality of life for the community in which you live and work, continuing to develop and explore new ideas, providing high-quality care and doing well by doing what is right.
As the clinical leader for your facility, you will collaborate with your CEO and your Human Resources leader to tackle problems and enhance both the employee and patient experience. You will learn high standard leadership skills, work with respiratory and rehabilitation departments, and lead a highly skilled clinical team.
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Resolve staffing ratios and work with the senior nursing staff to improve the quality of care.
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Engage with your regional leaders on staffing initiatives, including leading educational programs for new graduates and re-entry nurses.
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Have fiscal responsibility to ensure that budgets are met and that costs are controlled within the hospital.
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Treat others as they would like to be treated and aim to create a supportive and engaging culture for your employees.
Qualifications
Minimum requirements:
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BSN required. MSN or equivalent Masters in Healthcare or enrollment in a Master's program required. Exceptions approved by SVP, Clinical Operations.
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Three to Five years of hospital nursing experience required. Three or more years' experience in a managerial or supervisory capacity preferred.
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Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse required
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BLS required
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ACLS required within 6 months of hire
Preferred qualifications that will make you successful:
- Having experience with vents, hemodynamics, critical drips, ET Tubes and wounds.
Additional Data
Rush Specialty Hospital, a partnership between Select Medical and RUSH, is a 100-bed facility that combines a critical illness recovery hospital and an acute inpatient rehabilitation hospital.
Our team is committed to providing world-class inpatient post-ICU services to chronic, critically ill patients who require extended healing and recovery as well as exceptional rehabilitation services tobest address the medical, physical, emotional, and vocational challenges for individuals with brain injuries,spinal cord injuries, neurological disorders, orthopedic issues, amputation, and multiple traumas.
Equal Opportunity Employer including Disabled/Veterans
Location : Location US-IL-Chicago
Job ID 390420
Position Type Full Time
Experience (Years) 3
Category Hospital Leadership
Company RUSH Specialty Hospital Inpatient Rehabilitation
How this job compares
Set against the 772 open Nursing Leadership jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$160–180K/yr
- US median$111–148K/yr278 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $170K, is 31% above the US median midpoint ($130K) — in the top quarter of Nursing Leadership salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 23 open Nursing Leadership jobs in Illinois and 772 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Illinois
- Rush University Medical Center4 open
- Prime Healthcare2 open
- Trinity Health2 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Nursing Leadership postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (595 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 319 of the 772 open Nursing Leadership jobs (41%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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