Ms. Honey serves as senior vice president and CNO for Covenant Health, with enterprise leadership responsibility for quality, safety and nursing operations across the community-owned system. She partners with hospitals and member organizations to build and sustain a safety-oriented culture, identify improvement opportunities, and standardize practices that reduce harm and strengthen outcomes. Since joining Covenant Health in 2017, Ms. Honey has led systemwide protocols that have significantly reduced healthcare-associated infections and improved the system’s patient safety indicator performance, while also cultivating a renewed and data-driven focus on falls prevention through revised risk identification processes, reporting, injury assessment and follow-up analyses. She also led development of a system performance improvement program to align work toward “driving to zero” patient harm and to standardize processes that support both patient care and operations. Ms. Honey expands education on safety protocols and reporting, strengthens bedside handoffs and leader rounding, and launches staff-engagement mechanisms such as a “patient safety challenge” that generated more than 100 frontline ideas, several of which are already implemented or in progress. She is also a national contributor to nursing leadership development, helping author the American Organization for Nursing Leadership certified executive in nursing practice prep course and partnering with the University of Tennessee Haslam College of Business to implement a clinical leadership development program for nurses.
