Jacquelyn Gaines
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Jacquelyn Gaines

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Jackie is a high performing Senior Executive, National Speaker and Best-Selling Author with a progressive career encompassing more than 35 years of sustained leadership and accomplishments with major health systems and organizations. With passion, creative energy and vision, Jackie motivates diverse groups of people toward success. She has worked in a variety of roles, starting her career as a nurse working for Johns Hopkins Health Institutions. Upon graduation from her master's program she went to work for Health Care for the Homeless, Inc in Baltimore, Maryland as a Nurse Practitioner serving over 50,000 vulnerable patients per year in clinics, shelters and the streets. In 1987, she was appointed as its first President & CEO and developed this organization over her 13 year tenure into a national model in health care delivery for vulnerable people. As a result of her expertise in this field, Jackie has consulted all over the United States for the U.S. Public Health Services in program development, evaluation, governance, community collaboration, public policy, advocacy and fundraising. In 1999, Jackie returned to a hospital based delivery system when she was appointed as the Vice President of Community Health Systems Integration for Bon Secours Baltimore Health System. There Jackie led an effective $15 million turn-around initiative called Transformation 2000, decreasing that organization's deficit to break even over a 2 year period. In the summer of 2000 Jackie was recruited to join the Providence Health System family in Oregon where she was the Chief Executive for Providence Milwaukee Hospital and Regional Chief Executive for Ancillary Business lines across the eight Providence hospitals in Oregon. During her seven year tenure at Providence, Jackie took Providence Milwaukee to Top 100 Hospital in the U.S. three times and implemented the organization's Family Practice Residency Program and raised millions of dollars to support expanded services for the community. In 2007 Jackie left Providence to become the Regional President and CEO of Mercy Health Partners for Northeast Pennsylvania, where she had oversight for two hospitals and 15 other freestanding clinics and diagnostic centers. Jackie has been an executive coach with the Studer Group for almost 8 years and is currently working with over 20 partner organizations, using evidence based tactics and strategies consistently to make a difference, igniting Fire Starters nationwide. She is a national speaker and author of the bestselling books “Believing You Can Fly” and “The Yellow Suite-A Guide for Women in Leadership” and "Destination Infinity- Reflections and Career Lessons from a Road Warrior". She also has co-authored “The Nurse Leader Handbook” and just released her newest book, "Wait a Hot Minute- How to Manage Your Life with the Minutes You Have". Jackie is also a wife of 40 years, mother of two grown daughters and grandma to two adorable grandsons and one beautiful grand-daughter. She teaches ZUMBA, and loves soft jazz, gardening and reading.
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