{"id":23831,"date":"2025-01-27T13:46:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T20:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/chief-nursing-officer-at-southwest-health-system-completes-rural-hospital-certification-program\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:43:09","slug":"chief-nursing-officer-at-southwest-health-system-completes-rural-hospital-certification-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/chief-nursing-officer-at-southwest-health-system-completes-rural-hospital-certification-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief nursing officer at Southwest Health System completes Rural Hospital Certification Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=0bb7872a-7812-5909-932d-00188c797156&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1915\" alt=\"Southwest Health System\u2019s chief nursing officer, Lisa Gates and the hospital\u2019s CEO, Joe Theine, pose with Gates\u2019 Rural Hospital CNO Program certification. (Jaycee Hart\/Courtesy photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Southwest Health System\u2019s chief nursing officer, Lisa Gates and the hospital\u2019s CEO, Joe Theine, pose with Gates\u2019 Rural Hospital CNO Program certification. (Jaycee Hart\/Courtesy photo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The chief nursing officer of Southwest Health System recently completed a \u201crigorous six-month program\u201d that\u2019s designed specifically for chief nursing officers who work in rural hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called the Rural Hospital CNO Program, and the National Rural Health Association puts it on.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the program is to help \u201crural hospital CNOs strengthen their leadership skills to help lead their hospital to success,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crhleadership.com\/cno\" id=\"link-23aa8920b939e27afc929c3e564ec1f7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to its website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Gates, the chief nursing officer who completed that program, said she \u201cwas passionate about becoming certified as a rural health CNO \u2026 to address the unique needs of my \u2026 role while supporting and growing operations of an organization such as Southwest Health System.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The program was an educational one, complete with comprehensive sessions and tests at the end of each module.<\/p>\n<p>And the curriculum was made up of four major topics: leadership performance, operational performance, financial performance and clinical performance, according to a Southwest Health System news release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great example of how Lisa is investing some of her time to get better in her role and to help improve health care delivery in Southwest Colorado,\u201d said hospital CEO Joe Theine in the news release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLisa\u2019s experience is one example, of many, of how Southwest Health System and our employees are investing in the future of our workforce,\u201d Theine said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>completes program to strengthen leadership skills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-23831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78282,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23831\/revisions\/78282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23831"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=23831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}