Case Study: Rush University System for Health unlocks $50M in idle cash and $2M+ annual interest with GTreasury

Rush University System for Health Unlocks $50M in Idle Cash to Fuel Growth

Rush University faced growing pressure to maximize liquidity and reduce costs but lacked real-time visibility into cash positions, relying on manual, spreadsheet-driven reporting and inconsistent banking practices. To address this, Rush University implemented GTreasury’s centralized treasury management platform to consolidate and automate its global treasury operations.

GTreasury delivered real-time visibility across all bank accounts and entities, turning siloed processes into an auditable cash management framework. As a result, Rush identified roughly $50M (about 20% of global cash) that had been idle, redeployed it to internal funding and investments to earn more than $2M in incremental annual interest, eliminated external borrowing for key initiatives, established 0% internal financing, and positioned treasury to lead a proactive cash-optimization strategy.

Rush University

Arunkumar Dharmapuri

Director of Treasury Operations