Ms. Pengel provides executive leadership and strategic oversight for nursing operations across Cleveland Clinic’s main campus, which includes approximately 1,400 hospital beds and more than 100 operating rooms. She leads nursing strategy across all clinical institutes on main campus, advancing innovative care delivery, evidence-based practice, financial stewardship and continuous improvement, with all main campus nursing directors reporting directly to her. Previously, Ms. Pengel served as associate CNO for main campus and as clinical nursing director for the anesthesiology institute and the heart and vascular institute, overseeing extensive cardiac step-down, ICU, interventional and outpatient operations. At the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, she served as CNO for Cleveland Clinic’s Hope Hospital, guiding the rapid development and activation of a 1,006-bed surge facility in less than one month. A Cleveland Clinic nurse leader for more than two decades, she began her career as a staff nurse in cardiothoracic step-down and has since driven systemwide initiatives including rapid response standardization, central monitoring integration and the successful activation of the 1-million-square-foot Miller Pavilion. Ms. Pengel is also a strong advocate for nursing education, certification, research and leadership development across the organization.
