At the first HealthLeaders Media CNO Exchange, healthcare executives focused on solutions and innovations to address changes in the industry and the nursing profession.
This article appears in the January/February 2016 issue of HealthLeaders magazine.
More than two dozen nurse executives from across the country gathered at the Omni Barton Creek Resort in Austin, Texas, last November for the first HealthLeaders Media CNO Exchange. This newest addition to the Exchange series of annual executive events focused on nursing's key role in care redesign, the challenge of recruiting and retaining nurses, and the evolving role of the chief nursing officer.
The leaders at the invitation-only gathering came from a range of organizations, including large health systems such as Baylor Scott & White Health in Dallas; Carolinas HealthCare System in Charlotte, North Carolina; Catholic Health Initiatives in Englewood, Colorado; Ochsner Health System in Jefferson, Louisiana; Scripps Health in San Diego; and UPMC in Pittsburgh, as well as independent hospitals including Community Hospital in Munster, Indiana; Jupiter (Florida) Medical Center; and Louis A. Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago; and academic medical centers such as University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in Madison; University Health System in San Antonio, Texas; and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.