Dr. Foley serves in a dual enterprise role at Hackensack Meridian Health, combining system chief nursing executive responsibilities with executive oversight as president of specialty hospitals and clinical services. As chief nursing executive, she supports chief nurses across 18 hospitals, advances clinical transformation and drives workforce strategy. In this role, she prioritizes recruitment, retention, flexible scheduling, leadership development and the conversion of agency nurses into full-time or internal staffing models. She has positioned Magnet designation as a strategic imperative, supporting organizations pursuing redesignations while accelerating others on the path to excellence. Dr. Foley is also integrating the system’s three schools of nursing into a networked pipeline while strengthening partnerships with external academic programs to ensure a steady flow of mission-aligned new graduate nurses. In her president role, she oversees strategic direction and performance for specialty hospitals and services across the network, including rehabilitation, pharmacy, imaging, laboratory, emergency medical services and transfer center operations, transformation, and the office of integration management. With more than 38 years at the system, she has led extensive enterprise change efforts, including pandemic financial recovery work and a portfolio of more than 500 initiatives designed to align the organization, improve revenue and reduce expenses. She builds trust through direct engagement at sites and a consistent focus on respect for team members.
