Valerie Purcell is a health care operations executive and consultant with an exceptional track record for guiding healthcare-related businesses to maximize their potential for revenue, service, quality care, and industry leadership. She has leveraged her clinical and bsiness background in developing and implementing tools and systems that improve comunication between patients and their healthcare providers. She excels as a change agent and holds a leadership role in the development of technologies which can track clinical care and outcomes; analyze, and improve customer satisfaction; promote patient safety; improve clinical efficiency and cost savings. Her creativity, collaborative leadership, and unique insights into clinical processes have brought immediate and long-term benefits to healthcare businesses and their patients. Ms. Purcell’s well-earned reputation as knowledgeable medical professional, clinical administrator, and consultant has been built upon a foundation of extensive education, including degrees in Nursing and Healthcare Administration.

She has worked as a bedside nurse, operating room nurse, critical care nurse, healthcare administrator and entrepreneur. She has worked extensively with physicians and physician groups and has directed hospital and health insurance quality management programs. Her diverse background has helped her to understand the complexities of health care and has helped to drive her entrepreneurial spirit. Ms Purcell has been an invited speaker and author on topics such as patient safety and risk management, organizational management, performance improvement and regulatory compliance. She has hands-on experience in public and private hospitals, academic medicine, and managed care settings. Ms. Purcell holds an MBA in Healthcare Administration and BBA in Global Enterprise Management from American InterContinental University (Summa Cum Laude). She is also a Registered Nurse, having graduated as Valedictorian St. Elizabeth College of Nursing and Maria Regina College in New York State. In addition to her Ms. Purcell holds certifications in Catastrophic Case Management/Life Care Planning from the University of Florida; Six Sigma black Belt Certification from Villanova University; and National Board Certification in Healthcare Quality Management. Ms. Purcell was recently chosen as one of Houston’s Top 100 Nurses in 2014. She enjoys bringing professionals of many types together to analyze problems and find constructive solutions.