St. Louis-based Ascension named Wendy Lincoln, MSN, RN, the COO of Ascension Sacred Heart Bay in Panama City, Fla., effective Jan. 4.
Since 2024, Ms. Lincoln has served as vice president and chief nursing officer of Ascension St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore. During her tenure, St. Agnes accomplished 18 months without any central line-associated bloodstream infections or catheter-associated urinary tract infections, according to a Nov. 12 news release from the health system. She also helped speed patient transfers from the emergency department to inpatient beds by more than 25%.
Ms. Lincoln previously served as assistant vice president of Baptist Health Medical Center in Little Rock, Ark., interim COO at Northside Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla., and vice president and chief nursing executive at San Francisco-based Dignity Health’s hospitals in Nevada.
