Dr. Pacholek provides executive leadership for all nursing and patient care services, overseeing multimillion-dollar budgets, nursing professional practice and enterprisewide strategies focused on quality, safety and operational efficiency. Since assuming the role, she has stabilized the nursing workforce, reducing registered nurse turnover from 51% to 20% in three years, cutting agency utilization by 40% and generating more than $26 million in combined savings. Under her leadership, hospital-acquired infections declined by 75%, harm events fell by 42% and emergency department left-without-being-seen rates were reduced by 50%. She led the launch of a 10-bed observation unit to improve patient flow and length of stay while driving a four-point year-over-year improvement in inpatient patient experience scores. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Pacholek served as operations chief of the hospital incident command center, rapidly standing up Covid units, testing and vaccination clinics while maintaining workforce stability amid labor disruptions. A nationally engaged nurse executive, she has served as an American Organization for Nursing Leadership board member, committee chair and faculty member.
