195 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine HEALTH AND WELLNESS Kelley Woodfin desired to enter nursing at a young age. After high school, she was accepted to the Los Angeles County Hospital School of Nursing, commencing her nursing career in the pediatric ICU. One year later, she served as an ICU nurse at a local hospital. After one year, she began a distinguished career in emergency services. She established the first Los Angeles County Paramedic Base Station at the hospital in which she worked and became one of the first five mobile intensive care nurses in California. During her emergency nursing career, she was an emergency department supervisor, paramedic liaison nurse and college instructor of the first EMT I training program conducted by a local college. She also served as an emergency department clinical instructor and opened a second paramedic base station at the Cedars Sinai Medical Center. Thereafter, she became an assistant administrator/ flight coordinator for Life Flight Southern California, provided flight nurse education and developed their fixed-wing transport program. Concurrently, Ms. Woodfin served for five years as the California Emergency Nurses Association representative and Los Angeles County Commissioner on the County’s Emergency Services Commission. She was also president of the California Emergency Nurses Association, was designated as a certified emergency nurse and critical care nurse, and served as a California disaster service worker and on the California Governor’s Earthquake Task Force. While director of risk management at a large managed care organization, she received her BSBA. She has provided over 500 lectures and education programs for more than 2,500 emergency nurses, paramedics, case managers, physicians and physicians-in-training, and risk managers. Since 2009, Ms. Woodfin has owned and operated CORE Risk Services, Inc., providing enterprise risk management, compliance and quality improvement consulting services for health care organizations with a focus on long-term care. She is a distinguished fellow of the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management, a certified Professional in Healthcare Risk Management, and a volunteer RN emergency responder for the Utah Medical Reserve Corps. KELLEY WOODFIN PRESIDENT CORE Risk Services, Inc. Sandy, UT
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