Lydia Wood, RN BSN CPEN, currently serves as the Trauma Performance Improvement Coordinator at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital since June 2023. As an artist and owner of Lydia Wood Studios, LLC, Lydia has showcased figurative watercolor works and is a member of PoetsArtists. Previously, Lydia worked at St. Louis Children's Hospital from January 2017 to June 2023 as an RN Case Manager in the Heart Center and as a Staff Nurse/Charge Nurse in the Pediatric Emergency Room. Additional experience includes community volunteering with CommUNITY Arts STL, nursing in the Emergency Department at Mercy Hospital St. Louis, and teaching English as a Second Language to refugees and immigrants. Lydia holds a BSN from Goldfinch College of Nursing and a Bachelor of Arts in Intercultural Studies from Southwest Baptist University.
SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital
Since 1956, SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital has offered the highest level of care as the country’s only free-standing, non-profit Catholic pediatric hospital. Located in St. Louis, MO, SSM Health Cardinal Glennon provides hope to thousands of children with complex conditions from Missouri, Illinois and beyond. A member of SSM Health, one of the largest Catholic health care systems in the county, the 195-bed teaching hospital is staffed by SLUCare physicians affiliated with the Saint Louis University School of Medicine. Since 2013, U.S News & World Report has recognized SSM Health Cardinal Glennon as a Best Children's Hospital. In every way, SSM Health Cardinal Glennon lives out the SSM Health mission, “Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of God.”