Riley Children’s Health names Vanessa Roshell-Stacks as Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

After a highly competitive national search, Riley Children’s Health is pleased to announce Vanessa Roshell-Stacks as the new Vice President and Chief Operating Officer.

Roshell-Stacks’s comes to Riley Children’s with more than 25 years of healthcare experience, most recently serving as the Vice President of Ancillary and Support Services and Site Administrator at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals in Oakland, Calif. In this role, she oversaw enterprise-wide functions including emergency management, safety, supply chain, regulatory compliance, and construction, managing a $50M operational portfolio and achieving a 10% increase in financial efficiency.

Prior to UCSF, she served as Vice President of Clinical Operations at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, where she led multi-departmental operations for a 700-bed academic hospital, improving efficiency, patient flow, and documentation accuracy, generating $13M in financial impact.

Roshell-Stacks began her healthcare career providing therapy for autistic children and throughout her career has served in leadership positions in a variety of premier health care organizations.

Roshell-Stacks begins her role at Riley on September 22.