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November 23, 2007
Chief nursing officer Rhonda Green, R.N., has been named hospital administrator for Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center effective Dec. 1, the LSU Health Care Services Division announced Tuesday.
Green has served as acting administrator at the facility since the departure of former administrator Larry Walker.
Walker held the hospital chief job for less than a year when he voluntarily submitted his resignation on July 12, a spokesman with the LSU Health Care Services Division announced at the time.
Green has more than 17 years of experience in hospital management and health care.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing and master’s degrees in business administration and health care management. She also serves as legal nurse consultant and expert witness for Tri-parish area law firms.
Green was first appointed chief nursing officer in 2004. As a senior administrator, she is responsible for all Chabert’s inpatient and outpatient care areas and more than 400 full-time employees.
“We have complete confidence in Ms. Green’s ability to oversee the operation of Leonard. J. Chabert Medical Center,” said Dr. Michael Butler, acting chief executive officer of the LSU Health Care Services Division. “She is highly qualified and has a wealth of experience. Her skill, achievements, and dedication rank her among the best.”
Prior to joining Chabert’s staff, Green was the nurse manager of the acute medical detox unit at the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans. In that role, she was responsible for opening the unit and developing its guidelines and policy, implementing protocols for patient care and treatment and hiring staff. The latter she accomplished with less than a one-percent turnover rate.
Green also served as an assistant section manager of the medical center’s emergency department for 12 years.
She was an emergency room charge, orientation and staff nurse for Tenet Healthcare Kenner Regional Medical Center from 1992 to 1999. She was responsible for staffing, scheduling and orientation of the facility’s 14-bed emergency department.
Green is also credited with opening a 15-bed wound care/psychiatric unit for Community Health Care Hospital.
There she developed unit policies, procedures and wound-care protocols and readied the unit for licensure with the Department of Health and Hospitals, which the unit attained.
She also served in a variety of positions for Hotel Dieu and University hospitals, including relief-house supervisor, assistant section manager and orientation nurse for the emergency department, staff nurse for the medical neurology and infectious disease unit, and BLS and ACLS instructor. Green was named one of Hotel Dieu’s 25 Best Nurses and the New Orleans District Nurses Associa-tion’s Great 100 Nurses and received the Delores Shirley Entrepreneurial Award.
Chabert employs 915 full-time and part-time staffers at the teaching hospital. The public hospital also offers clinic training to medical students and physicians.
It is one of eight member hospitals of the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center – Health Care Services Division.
The five-person selection team included Pat Robertson, of W.O. Moss Regional Medical Center in Lake Charles; Dr. James Falterman, medical director of the LSU Health Sciences Center – Health Care Services Division; Laverne Meates, former CEO and president at Chabert; Lynette Duhe, of Chabert’s Human Resources and Personnel Department; and Foundation board member Marsha Williams.
Dr. Michael Butler, the medical director at Chabert, provided the final approval on Green’s appointment, according to hospital spokeswoman Lisa Schilling.
