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Susan Roos, MS, BSN, RN, brought her outstanding leadership skills to BMH from day one. She leads BMH in qual-ity measures through her work with the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI). She has facilitated teams to address protocols and practices that have resulted in a marked decrease in patient falls and pressure ulcers. Roos organized and launched the frst nursing peer review program at Beaufort Memorial and has involved nurses in the process to improve practices. She led BMH in adopting the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses’ Healthy Work Environments initiative. Roos also

Janet Singletary was recently named director of Beaufort Memorial Hospital’s Wound Care Center. A graduate of Clemson University, she has extensive experience in sales and marketing. Before taking the job in Beaufort, Singletary was a pharmaceutical sales representative and territory manager for Endo Pharmaceuticals in Atlanta.

Katherine Howell, RN, is another nurse who demonstrates her unique leadership skills every day in her work at BMH. She is a member of the hospitalwide peer review team and serves as a preceptor for new employees. She was instrumental in creat-ing reference material for new employ-ees and is currently participating in the trial of the newly revised Clinical Bridge Program for the professional advance-ment of the nursing staf.

Currently pursuing a master's degree in nursing, Howell encourages critical thinking by asking questions and shares the knowledge and experience she gained through participation in diabetes education, wound care and peer review committees.

Both of these nurses are very commit-ted to community involvement, as well. Howell volunteers each month at the local Good Neighbor Clinic, which ofers care to people without health insurance, and is a member of the Beaufort Masters Swim Team. Roos participates in the Back2Back Ministries in Latin America and India. She was a Tsunami Disaster Relief volunteer in India and Sri Lanka in 2005. She has been involved in the Missions Team and Youth Ministry at her church since 2003.

It is located on the second foor of the Beaufort Medical Plaza, and its profes-sional staf also includes Gordon Krueger, MD, medical director, and Lauretta Bland, RN, clinical coordinator.

Besides ofering state-of-the-art con-ventional treatment modalities for wound care, the center also has two hyperbaric oxygen treatment (HBOT) chambers. HBOT is a good treatment option for about 15 percent of patients with wounds that won’t heal. Te outpatient center of-fers patients advanced clinical therapies and proven clinical protocols to provide comprehensive, integrated services. For more information about ser-vices at the Wound Care Center, call