Lanie Ward

Lanie Ward, MBA, BSN, RN, was appointed chief nursing officer at CHA in October 2020 after serving as interim chief nursing officer. Lanie, who has more than 30 years of experience in healthcare administration, has served in senior nursing roles in organizations across the country.

Prior to joining CHA, Lanie was the system senior vice president of patient care services/CNO at Summa Health System in Ohio. Summa serves more than one million patients in Ohio through comprehensive acute, critical, emergency, outpatient and long-term/home-care settings and has more than 1,300 licensed beds. At Summa, she brought nursing together system-wide to standardize care, practice and shared governance. Additionally, under her leadership, Summa Akron City & St Thomas Hospitals achieved Magnet designation and redesignation.

Before her time at Summa, Lanie was the chief nursing officer at Broward Health Medical Center in Florida. Broward is a nonprofit community health system that encompasses more than 30 healthcare facilities with four hospitals. At Broward Health, Lanie played a key role in the design and execution of a $165 million hospital expansion.

She received her master’s degree in business administration from Florida Atlantic University and her bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Kentucky.