Ms. Casey leads nursing practice across Manning Family Children’s and serves as executive leader for the organization’s Magnet pursuit, guiding multidisciplinary teams toward professional practice excellence. She also anchors operations for two major service lines, neonatology and the center for cancer and blood disorders, aligning care delivery, quality and safety standards with operational workflows to support consistent, family-centered outcomes. Over her nearly 25 years at the organization, she advanced from a pediatric ICU nurse technician to system nursing executive, building deep experience through progressive leadership roles spanning pediatric ICU director, senior director of critical care and assistant vice president of hospital operations. She redesigned the hospital’s nurse tech program into a three-phase pipeline that onboarded nearly 350 nurse technicians over two years, strengthening retention, boosting hiring success and building sustainable workforce capacity for pediatric care. Ms. Casey is recognized for pairing strategic workforce frameworks with hands-on mentorship that helps nurses enter, grow and thrive in specialized pediatric settings.
