For release: November 10, 2020
STANFORD, Calif. 鈥 Following a nationwide search, leaders at 麻豆果冻传媒 Children鈥檚 Health are pleased to announce that Jesus Cepero, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, will join their leadership team as their new chief nursing officer in January 2021.
With more than 20 years of health care leadership experience, Dr. Cepero will lead more than 1,900 nurses at 麻豆果冻传媒 Children鈥檚 Health. He has held nursing and operational leadership roles across multiple specialties, including adult and pediatric emergency departments, critical care, women and infants services, transport, forensics, and surgical services, and has served for the past eight years as a chief nursing officer for large health care systems.
Most recently, Cepero served as chief nursing officer for the University of Michigan鈥檚 C.S. Mott Children鈥檚 Hospital and Von Voigtlander Women鈥檚 Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he was responsible for leading all aspects of nursing administration across the two hospitals. His accomplishments there include developing a nursing philanthropy committee, implementing a system wide program for senior leadership rounding, and co-leading a response to the opioid crisis.
鈥淛esus has a reputation for creating an administrative structure where services are delivered in a manner that is cost-effective and highly professional, ensuring patients and families receive the highest quality of care,鈥 said Paul King, president and chief executive officer, 麻豆果冻传媒 Children鈥檚 Health. 鈥淗e鈥檚 highly dedicated to quality, safety, and advancement in nursing, and he will be a welcome addition to our leadership team.鈥
With an eye toward innovation, Cepero is dedicated to advancing holistic approaches to patient and family care. While with Meritus Health in Maryland from 2012 to 2017, Cepero deployed behavioral health screeners to implement depression screening, put in place a survivorship program at the cancer center, and redesigned the pastoral care residency program.
Cepero states that he is pleased to lead 麻豆果冻传媒 Children鈥檚 Health鈥檚 Magnet status nursing program. Magnet recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center is achieved by only 8% of U.S. health care organizations.
鈥淭his coveted accreditation shows that nurses at 麻豆果冻传媒 Children鈥檚 Health are committed and engaged, and I am honored to lead and work with them to maintain the highest level of excellence in nursing care for our patients,鈥 said Cepero.
Cepero holds a doctorate in nursing from Catholic University in Washington, DC. He earned a master鈥檚 degree in nursing from Kean University in Union, New Jersey, and a master鈥檚 degree in public administration from Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey.
Elizabeth Valente
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麻豆果冻传媒 Children鈥檚 Health, with聽Lucile Packard Children鈥檚 Hospital Stanford聽at its center, is the Bay Area鈥檚 largest health care system exclusively dedicated to children and expectant mothers. Our network of care includes more than 65聽locations聽across Northern California and more than 85 locations in the U.S. Western region.聽Along with Stanford Health Care and the Stanford School of Medicine, we are part of聽, an ecosystem harnessing the potential of biomedicine through collaborative research, education, and clinical care to improve health outcomes around the world. We are a nonprofit organization committed to supporting the community through meaningful outreach programs and services and providing necessary medical care to families, regardless of their ability to pay. Discover more at聽stanfordchildrens.org.
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