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Kristen Palumbo joined Innovive Health full time in 2005 as a case manager. Since then, she has conducted more than 20,000 patient visits and has held numerous leadership roles, including director of quality improvement, regional director of clinical services and vice president of clinical services. Earlier in her career, she worked as a registered nurse in Boston Medical Center’s Psychiatric Emergency Department and with Baldpate Hospital, now known as Baldpate Treatment Center. She also is board-certified as a nurse executive.
At Innovive Health, Palumbo has been crucial to the success of the organization’s employee training efforts, according to her nominator. She created the New Graduate Residency Program, which matches newly licensed nurses who have a passion for providing nursing care in the community into a year-long program that supports both clinical skill and nursing case management development. She also is the executive sponsor responsible for Innovive Health’s expanding list of academic partnership.
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