Dr. Shrout leads nursing and patient care services at Sinai Hospital and Grace Medical Center, overseeing daily nursing operations, workforce recruitment and retention, patient experience initiatives, and continuous improvement of clinical quality and organizational performance. Both hospitals are part of Baltimore-based LifeBridge Health. During nearly a decade serving within the system, she has advanced through roles spanning clinical nurse specialist, director of clinical excellence, director of emergency departments and observation, and CNO. At Sinai, she built out a clinical excellence infrastructure and launched a simulation center to strengthen evidence-based practice and staff readiness. She also led major access and throughput initiatives, including doubling the size of the emergency department and opening a new outpatient rapid observation center. In addition, Dr. Shrout advanced patient- and family-centered care by implementing 24/7 visitation, and championed competency-based nurse onboarding to accelerate unit readiness. Her operational impact includes creation of an emergency department-specific dashboard to improve accountability; the implementation of a throughput nurse role that drove sustained improvement in observation length of stay; and a 55% reduction in door-to-triage times for pediatric patients.
