Sandra has been a nursing leader at CBMC for 27 years. Throughout her career, she has demonstrated integrity, empathy, influence, and respect. She is truly an expert in her specialty and has become a strong resource for our entire healthcare system. I especially would like to recognize Sandra for her extraordinary leadership throughout the pandemic. She was adaptive, resourceful, and innovative as she took on new roles and challenges.

Sandra and the Wound Team were instrumental in identifying the proper classification of COVID ‘Skin’ versus pressure injury. She created an education that was then used throughout our system. She and her team worked tirelessly to meet the new needs of COVID‐19 patients. As an example, Sandra led an interdisciplinary quality improvement project to reduce tracheostomy‐related pressure injuries after seeing an uptick in trached COVID patients.

Additionally, Sandra assumed responsibility for running the Employee Testing Center. She did an excellent job collaborating with key stakeholders, such as laboratory, security, registration, and many others, to open the sites, ensuring the safety of employees and community members. Sandra worked day and night, and on weekends too, to ensure that our employees and the community had seamless access to testing and timely notification of their results. Sandra has made a tremendous difference for our patients and colleagues. Sandra and her team always say yes when asked to step up and we are all very lucky to have them as colleagues.