Mansfield joins MUSC Health executive leadership team
October 2, 2016
CHARLESTON, SC – Jerry A. Mansfield, Ph.D., RN, was recently named MUSC Health executive chief nursing officer and chief patient experience officer, assuming his new role in August. He joins the MUSC Health executive leadership team and is responsible for both the practice of nursing at MUSC and initiatives that will enhance the patient experience.
Mansfield brings with him a wealth and depth of experience from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. He was appointed the first chief nursing officer (CNO) for the OSU Wexner Medical Center University Hospital and Ross Heart Hospital in 2012, after having served as interim CNO. He was responsible for 2,176 clinical and non-clinical staff for the 618-bed Level I trauma center and 150-bed heart specialty hospital in a multi-campus health care system. Both hospitals, under his leadership, achieved their third Magnet re-designation during his four years serving as the CNO.
Mansfield formerly served in the role of corporate administrator for the Health System Nursing Services for quality, research and evidence-based practice at the OSU Wexner Medical Center and as the first CNO for ambulatory services. He also held an appointment as clinical professor of practice at The Ohio State University College of Nursing and served as faculty lead for the graduate nursing administration courses. He received his bachelor’s degree in nursing from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio and master’s degree in nursing administration and Ph.D. in public health from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
Mansfield is the president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellows Alumni Association and also holds an appointment as a member on the National Advisory Committee of the RWJF Future of Nursing Scholars Program.
About MUSC Health
MUSC Health is the clinical enterprise of the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) comprised of a 700-bed Medical Center, the MUSC College of Medicine and the physician’s practice plan. It serves patients across South Carolina and beyond through four hospital facilities in Charleston and more than 100 outreach sites. Among these are the Hollings Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute-designated center and the only one of its kind in South Carolina, and a nationally recognized Children’s Hospital. The Medical University was founded in 1824 and has become a premiere academic health sciences center at the forefront of the latest advances in medicine, with world-class practitioners and scientists providing groundbreaking research and technology that is often the first of its kind in the world.
