CNO Receives Excellence in Leadership Award
Martha Walls, Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) of Crestwood Medical Center, has been honored with the Excellence in Leadership Award by Community Health Systems, one of the nation’s leading operators of general acute-care hospitals. The organization’s affiliates include Crestwood Medical Center and 134 other hospitals in 29 states. The Excellence in Leadership Award recognizes hospital leaders who have demonstrated an ongoing commitment to quality healthcare and operational excellence.
Martha, who achieved her BSN and MSN at UA Huntsville, has been in nursing since 1975 and at Crestwood since 1999. Martha has led the nursing team at Crestwood in the establishment of new department services lines and Centers of Excellence. She opened Crestwood Maternity Center in 1999, and was instrumental in the development of Crestwood’s Bariatric and Robotic-Assisted Surgery programs, as well as in setting standards that contributed to honors that Crestwood’s Chest Pain Center, Stroke Center, and Hip & Knee surgical program have received. Martha received the Nursing Lamplighter Award from the Alabama League for Nursing in 2011 and the Women Honoring Women Health & Human Services Award in 2004. She is a graduate of Leadership Huntsville/Madison County Class 23 and FOCUS Class 14. Her current community involvement includes the WEDC Foundation, Crisis Services of North Alabama, and United Way.
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Walls says she is proud to lead an excellent team of nurses. “I am delighted to receive this award and share the honor with the entire nursing staff at Crestwood. We are all committed to the health and wellbeing of our patients. I’m very proud to be a part of this commitment, which is demonstrated every day through the actions and attitudes of our nursing team.”
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