Women & Infants Names New Chief Nursing Officer
Providence, RI, February 29, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Angelleen Peters-Lewis, RN, PhD, of Franklin, MA, has been appointed senior vice president for Patient Care Services and chief nursing officer at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island.
Dr. Peters-Lewis was most recently the associate chief nurse of Women and Newborn’s Nursing and Clinical Services at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston where she was responsible for leadership, strategic planning, operations and clinical nursing for all obstetric and gynecologic service lines. Before this position, she served as a nurse director of the Endoscopy Program at Massachusetts General Hospital where she began her career as a staff nurse. She also had prior experience as a nurse scientist and staff nurse in the hospital, physician office and home settings.
“Angelleen comes to us with an incredible track record of significant achievement in academic medicine, a deep commitment to the health care needs of the underserved, and a passion for professional nursing leadership and practice,” said Constance A. Howes, president and chief executive office of Women & Infants. “We are truly thrilled to welcome Angelleen to Women & Infants, and we have great expectations that she will help lead our patient care services team to their next stage of excellence.”
A graduate of Simmons College, Dr. Peters-Lewis earned a masters degree from Northeastern University and her PhD in nursing from Boston College where she graduated with distinction and received the Dorothy A. Jones Award for Scholarship, Service and Development and the Boston College Connell School of Nursing Diversity Fellowship. She also completed post-doctoral education at the Harvard Business School and is part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurses Fellows Program.
Dr. Peters-Lewis holds current faculty appointments at Cambridge College, University of Massachusetts Boston, MGH Institute of Health Professions, Northeastern University Bouve College, and Boston College. She is the author or co-author of several scholarly publications, a frequent presenter at national and international professional meetings and the recipient of numerous awards and honors.
About Women & Infants Hospital
Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, a Care New England hospital, is one of the nation’s leading specialty hospitals for women and newborns. A U.S.News Best Hospital in Gynecology and Best Children’s Hospital in Neonatology, Women & Infants was ranked number one in the Providence metro area and a top-performer in cancer, and has achieved a 5-star rating in Maternity Care for 2011 from HealthGrades. The primary teaching affiliate of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University for obstetrics, gynecology and newborn pediatrics, as well as a number of specialized programs in women’s medicine, Women & Infants is the seventh largest obstetrical service in the country with more than 8,500 deliveries per year. In 2009, Women & Infants opened the country’s largest, single-family room neonatal intensive care unit.
New England’s premier hospital for women and newborns, Women & Infants and Brown offer fellowship programs in gynecologic oncology, maternal-fetal medicine, urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery, neonatal-perinatal medicine, pediatric and perinatal pathology, gynecologic pathology and cytopathology, and reproductive endocrinology and infertility. It is home to the nation’s only mother-baby perinatal psychiatric partial hospital, as well as the nation’s only fellowship program in obstetric medicine.
Women & Infants has been designated as a Breast Center of Excellence from the American College of Radiography; a Center for In Vitro Maturation Excellence by SAGE In Vitro Fertilization; a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence by the National Institutes of Health; and a Neonatal Resource Services Center of Excellence. It is one of the largest and most prestigious research facilities in high risk and normal obstetrics, gynecology and newborn pediatrics in the nation, and is a member of the National Cancer Institute’s Gynecologic Oncology Group.
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Dr. Peters-Lewis was most recently the associate chief nurse of Women and Newborn’s Nursing and Clinical Services at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston where she was responsible for leadership, strategic planning, operations and clinical nursing for all obstetric and gynecologic service lines. Before this position, she served as a nurse director of the Endoscopy Program at Massachusetts General Hospital where she began her career as a staff nurse. She also had prior experience as a nurse scientist and staff nurse in the hospital, physician office and home settings.
“Angelleen comes to us with an incredible track record of significant achievement in academic medicine, a deep commitment to the health care needs of the underserved, and a passion for professional nursing leadership and practice,” said Constance A. Howes, president and chief executive office of Women & Infants. “We are truly thrilled to welcome Angelleen to Women & Infants, and we have great expectations that she will help lead our patient care services team to their next stage of excellence.”
A graduate of Simmons College, Dr. Peters-Lewis earned a masters degree from Northeastern University and her PhD in nursing from Boston College where she graduated with distinction and received the Dorothy A. Jones Award for Scholarship, Service and Development and the Boston College Connell School of Nursing Diversity Fellowship. She also completed post-doctoral education at the Harvard Business School and is part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurses Fellows Program.
Dr. Peters-Lewis holds current faculty appointments at Cambridge College, University of Massachusetts Boston, MGH Institute of Health Professions, Northeastern University Bouve College, and Boston College. She is the author or co-author of several scholarly publications, a frequent presenter at national and international professional meetings and the recipient of numerous awards and honors.
About Women & Infants Hospital
Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, a Care New England hospital, is one of the nation’s leading specialty hospitals for women and newborns. A U.S.News Best Hospital in Gynecology and Best Children’s Hospital in Neonatology, Women & Infants was ranked number one in the Providence metro area and a top-performer in cancer, and has achieved a 5-star rating in Maternity Care for 2011 from HealthGrades. The primary teaching affiliate of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University for obstetrics, gynecology and newborn pediatrics, as well as a number of specialized programs in women’s medicine, Women & Infants is the seventh largest obstetrical service in the country with more than 8,500 deliveries per year. In 2009, Women & Infants opened the country’s largest, single-family room neonatal intensive care unit.
New England’s premier hospital for women and newborns, Women & Infants and Brown offer fellowship programs in gynecologic oncology, maternal-fetal medicine, urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery, neonatal-perinatal medicine, pediatric and perinatal pathology, gynecologic pathology and cytopathology, and reproductive endocrinology and infertility. It is home to the nation’s only mother-baby perinatal psychiatric partial hospital, as well as the nation’s only fellowship program in obstetric medicine.
Women & Infants has been designated as a Breast Center of Excellence from the American College of Radiography; a Center for In Vitro Maturation Excellence by SAGE In Vitro Fertilization; a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence by the National Institutes of Health; and a Neonatal Resource Services Center of Excellence. It is one of the largest and most prestigious research facilities in high risk and normal obstetrics, gynecology and newborn pediatrics in the nation, and is a member of the National Cancer Institute’s Gynecologic Oncology Group.
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Amy Blustein
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www.womenandinfants.org
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www.womenandinfants.org
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