Ms. Ardabell, chief of clinical enterprise operations at Inova, guides clinical sites and ten service lines, driving transformative changes across the health system. With a career spanning bedside nursing to healthcare executive roles, she combines innovative leadership with a mission-driven approach to enhance patient care and community wellbeing. Ms. Ardabell’s recent achievements include launching the High Reliability Organization Center, increasing patient capacity, improving care access through digital tools and reducing observed mortality rates by 43% over four years. She also spearheaded initiatives like the 340B program expansion, the opening of Virginia’s first critical illness recovery hospital, and employee engagement and retention programs. Ms. Ardabell has also helped open a new behavioral health unit with 20 private beds and assisted in reducing employee turnover from 16.2% to 12.4%.
