Ms. Scanlan serves as senior vice president and chief nurse executive at Montefiore Einstein, providing strategic direction for nursing services and advancing professional practice across the health system. She leads Montefiore’s nursing strategic plan and governance infrastructure, including the CNO cabinet, NYC core cabinet and nurse executive council, ensuring shared decision-making informs policy, practice and outcomes at every level. Ms. Scanlan is guiding four hospital campuses on the journey toward “Pathway to Excellence” and Magnet designation, advocating for resources and aligning leaders around sustained nursing excellence. She created campus-based CNO advisory boards that provide a direct voice for frontline nurses and have driven measurable gains in RN satisfaction, communication and unit-level quality outcomes. Under her leadership, Montefiore secured a $4.5 million “Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Nursing Workforce Initiative” grant to support workforce stability and professional practice advancement at the Moses campus – the largest nursing-focused grant in the organization’s history. She has also delivered strong outcomes in retention, with NYC region RN turnover performing above the 90th percentile nationally, supported by leadership development and wellness strategies. Clinically, Ms. Scanlan’s implementation of the evidence-based “tailored interventions for patient safety” fall-prevention program contributed to a 40% reduction in falls with injury, with the system’s NYC hospitals sustaining performance above national benchmarks for more than eight consecutive quarters.
