Ms. Garnett is vice president and CNO of Sheppard Pratt, a nonprofit mental health services provider. She organizes, plans, directs and evaluates all nursing functions across the organization’s hospitals, schools, residential treatment centers and outpatient programs. Leveraging her own 30-plus years of nursing and nursing administration experience, she nurtures and diversifies the next generation of nurses. To this end, she works to create partnerships between Sheppard Pratt and historically black colleges and universities. She also acts as an educator and mentor, encouraging staff, students and mentees to take advantage of educational and professional development opportunities. Recently, she received the Maryland Hospital Association’s Advocacy Champion Award for her role in helping to pass SB 960/HB 611, a bill that ensures adequate hospital staffing in Maryland.
