Naperville resident Joe DePaulo named to new hospital system board

Joe DePaulo, a resident of Naperville since 1978, has been named to the 13-member Board of Trustees of the new health system created by the merger of Edward Hospital & Health Services and Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare.  DePaulo had served on the Edward Hospital Board of Trustees since 2006.

DePaulo is Manager of Clow International Airport in Bolingbrook and President of DePaulo Builders,   which has built and developed some of the finest housing developments in the western suburbs.  He had been an alternate director of the Illinois Home Builders Association since 1990 and past member of the organization since 1983, and a past President of the Northern Illinois Home Builders Association.  He is also President of the Illinois Aviation Museum in Bolingbrook.  DePaulo earned a Bachelor of Science from Western Illinois University.

The merger, finalized on July 1, creates one of the larger integrated health systems in the state, comprised of three hospitals – Edward, Elmhurst Memorial and Linden Oaks at Edward – with revenues of about $1 billion and more than 50 outpatient locations across a service area of 1.7 million residents.  The system employs nearly 7,700, has more than 1,680 physicians on staff and 1,700 volunteers.