In 2023, Dr. Baise was appointed chief nursing executive at ECU Health, an academic healthcare system serving over a million residents. She brings over 30 years of experience in both urban and rural nursing environments. Her role entails guiding a system of nurses spanning nine hospitals and over 100 clinics. She has spearheaded the advancing nursing practice and excellence initiative, aimed at enhancing nursing practices and culture across the organization. Dr. Baise advances nurse recruitment and retention in her role and is a staunch advocate for the non-traditional path to careers in nursing. Her own career began as a fire department dispatcher, then paramedic, then flight paramedic, then flight nurse, and she worked in the emergency department and ICU before becoming the director of the flight program and then ultimately progressing to higher nurse leadership roles.
