Brenda Summers, MBA/MHA, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, CSHA, Senior Consultant

Ms. Summers serves as a senior consultant for The Greeley Company, focusing in the area of accreditation and regulatory compliance. She brings more than 16 years of experience in healthcare leadership to her work with healthcare centers across the country.

Ms. Summers applies her years of healthcare leadership, clinical, and regulatory expertise to help our clients understand and meet accreditation standards and compliance expectations. Her in-depth understanding of organizational dynamics and the nature of change, even in times of turbulence, allows her to bring a realistic approach to organizational problem solving and strategic and operational process design.

She presents at state and national seminars, participates in topical audioconferences, and has authored several trade publications. Ms. Summers has particular expertise in the area of effective competence validation and performance review processes redesign, and consults in all areas of accreditation and regulatory compliance, process improvement, sustained change, and effective models for education.

Prior to joining The Greeley Company, Ms. Summers held senior leadership positions in hospitals in both North and South Carolina. Immediately prior to joining The Greeley Company in 1999, she served as vice president for administration and chief nursing officer for The Mercy Hospitals in Charlotte, North Carolina. She had direct reporting responsibility for all patient care areas, as well as many other clinical and non-clinical departments of the organization. She successfully introduced a number of change initiatives that resulted in improved patient, staff, and physician satisfaction, improved patient outcomes, and financial success of the organization. While in her senior leadership position, she also had responsibility for accreditation and regulatory affairs for the organization, and was able to coordinate sustained compliance activities in these arenas.

Ms. Summers holds an MBA/MHA from Pfeiffer University. She received a B.S. and M.S. in nursing from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is certified by the ANCC in Nursing Administration, Advanced and is a member of Sigma Theta Tau, the International Honor Society of Nursing.