Jonathan Brouk has been named President and Chief Operating Officer for Children’s Wisconsin. 

In this role, Brouk will be responsible for the overall performance of the organization’s hospitals in Milwaukee and Neenah, including inpatient and ambulatory operations. He will lead enterprise-wide initiatives focused on performance excellence, advancing care delivery and improving operational efficiency. Brouk also will support care model redesign to ensure Children’s Wisconsin continues to meet the evolving needs of children and families. 

“Jonathan has a passion for advancing children’s health and well-being and brings a thoughtful, balanced approach to streamlining operations through performance excellence and team development,” said Gil Peri, President and CEO, Children’s Wisconsin. “He is a growth-oriented, strengths-based leader who will be a strong fit with our organization’s culture. Jonathan’s leadership experience will add tremendous value to the children in Wisconsin and beyond. We are thrilled to have him on board.”

Prior to Children’s Wisconsin, Brouk served as President of Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Health, an academic children’s hospital and health care network in Louisiana. His accomplishments in this role include overseeing significant improvements in patient safety infrastructure and outcomes, successful revenue enhancement and cost containment strategies and leading an innovative pediatric joint venture board. He also spent several years at LCMC Health’s Manning Family Children’s (formerly Children’s Hospital New Orleans) where he served in enterprise leadership roles including Chief Operating Officer and Chief Strategy Officer as well as senior cabinet roles with the organization’s academic partners.

“I’m honored to join Children’s Wisconsin and serve an organization with a reputation as one the country’s best pediatric health systems,” said Brouk. “I look forward to partnering with our teams and the families and communities we serve to build upon the incredible work that’s already underway.” 

Brouk has deep experience with non-profit health systems, including developing population health strategies for organizations across the country. He earned his Juris Doctorate cum laude from Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy at Loyola University Chicago, and his Bachelor of Arts cum laude in Economics, Political Science and Spanish at Tulane University.