Kerri Scanlon, RN, FAAN

As executive director, Kerri Scanlon, RN, FAAN, oversees the day-to-day operations of Glen Cove Hospital, a 247-bed community hospital that features the renowned inpatient rehabilitation service and state-of-the-art brain injury unit. In this role, she is responsible for advancing Glen Cove as a premier hospital in Nassau County while aligning its strategic vision with Northwell Health. Ms. Scanlon also serves as the president of Plainview and Syosset hospitals.

Ms. Scanlon has been an integral member of Northwell Health for more than 25 years, serving in progressive leadership positions including associate executive director, patient care services and chief nursing officer at North Shore University Hospital (NSUH) and associate executive director of quality and chief nursing officer at Long Island Jewish Medical Center.

At NSUH, she developed the hospital’s nursing strategic plan to ensure the delivery of the highest quality care. She promoted an environment that drove improvement and change through engagement and staff empowerment, which was critical to NSUH’s ranking as the best hospital on Long Island, according to U.S. News & World Report. She also helped the tertiary hospital achieve Magnet designation by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.

Along with her responsibilities at NSUH, Ms. Scanlon was Northwell’s deputy chief nursing officer and a leader on Northwell’s Nurse Executive Council, where best practices are established and implemented hospital and health system-wide.

During her tenure at LIJ, Ms. Scanlon was instrumental in transforming patient care, helping design a new Inpatient Tower, creating a patient-centered environment, promoting staff empowerment, leveraging technology for communication and innovating medication management strategies. These strategies included delivering medications at a patient’s bedside and implementing unit-based pharmacists, and resulted in improved patient and staff experiences and outcomes, and were key to earning Magnet designation in 2015.

Ms. Scanlon, a graduate from the Academy GE Fellows Program for Nurse Executives, has published and presented locally, regionally, nationally and internationally on quality and the nursing profession. In 2018, she was induced as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nursing and she has received several prestigious awards, including the 2009 Nursing Spectrum regional and national Nursing Excellence award. Long Island Business News also named her to its 40 Under 40 list in 2009, and she was a participant in the Robert Wood Johnson Transforming Care at the Bedside Project and the original American Nurses Association Time Motion Study. She holds bachelor’s degrees from Manhattanville College and Columbia University, as well as a master’s in nursing as an adult nurse practitioner from Columbia.