NYC Health + Hospitals today announced that William Hicks, MS, RT, DHL (Hon), will step down as Chief Executive Officer of NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue after 11 years leading the hospital and 30 years of service to the health system. Eric Wei, MD, MBA has been appointed as CEO of Bellevue, effective January 6, 2025. Bellevue Hospital is the biggest acute care facility in the nation’s largest municipal health system.
“Bellevue Hospital CEO Bill Hicks has been an extraordinary leader, and it’s an honor to follow his footsteps as the next CEO of America’s oldest public hospital,” said Eric Wei, MD, MBA, Senior Vice President for Quality and Safety at NYC Health + Hospitals. “Through the transition and in January, I look forward to working with all the Bellevue Hospital teams as we continue to deliver high-quality care to those who need it most.”
Dr. Wei currently serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Quality Officer for NYC Health + Hospitals. He is also a practicing Emergency Medicine physician who rotates through all 11 Emergency Departments in the system. Since joining NYC Health + Hospitals in 2018, he has overseen the creation of Helping Healers Heal (H3), the health system’s peer support program to address healthcare provider trauma, burnout, and compassion fatigue. H3 was expanded during the Covid-19 pandemic and has served thousands of employees. During his tenure, Dr. Wei launched the Clinical Leadership Fellowship at NYC Health + Hospitals to develop the next generation of healthcare leaders and continues to serve as the fellowship’s director. He created a formal Arts in Medicine department to oversee the health system’s robust art collection of over 7,000 works and develop arts and wellness programming for staff, patients, and visitors. In addition, Dr. Wei was one of three editors of a new textbook about the Covid-19 response, written by nearly 100 health system staff and published earlier this year and spoke recently about his experience leading the system’s response in an interview on WNYC’s All Things Considered. Dr. Wei served as Interim CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln earlier this year, NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem in 2021, and NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst in 2020.
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In addition to his work at NYC Health + Hospitals, Dr. Wei is also a Professor of Emergency Medicine in the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, an Adjunct Professor in the NYU School of Global Public Health, and serves as faculty for the Greater New York Hospital Association/United Hospital Fund Clinical Quality Fellowship Program. He serves on the board of MetroPlus Health and is a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians.