Ms. Honey holds leadership responsibility for quality, safety and nursing operations across Covenant Health’s nine-hospital system, the area’s largest employer with more than 13,000 employees across Tennessee. Under her leadership, all Covenant Health facilities have earned “Zero Harm Awards” from the Tennessee Hospital Association for two consecutive years, recognizing hospitals with zero rates of central line-associated bloodstream infection, catheter-associated urinary tract infection, Clostridium difficile infection and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus healthcare-associated infections in the prior calendar year. She has also driven Leapfrog “A” safety grades across the system, with all nine hospitals earning “A” grades in spring and fall 2024. Ms. Honey works with the system’s innovation program to advance a “Patient Safety Challenge” encouraging staff to develop improvement ideas, and implemented systemwide protocols that have significantly reduced healthcare-associated infection rates and improved the system’s overall patient safety indicator index. She is a fellow of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership and the American College of Healthcare Executives.
