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Donna Watridge, BSN, RN

Chief Nursing and Operations Officer

Atlantic Health System, Hackettstown and Newton Medical Centers

Centers, NJ

Ms. Watridge is in charge of nurses, case management, emergency services and patient experience at both hospitals. She helped open a hybrid operating room suite at Atlantic Health System and launched the STEMI intervention program at Newton Medical Centers, which has performed over 100 PCIs for STEMI patients since its inception. Ms. Watridge led the academic and clinical partnership with Centenary University, Fairleigh Dickinson University and Seton Hall University, in which nursing students complete clinical training through an accelerated nursing program at either Hackettstown or Newton Medical Centers.

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