MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical Center has named Annabelle Braun, DNP, MSN, RN, NE-BC, its new Chief Nursing Officer. Braun is responsible for quality, safety, patient care, and patient experience in service to the community. She will focus on the strategy for clinical nursing and nursing operations, leading and implementing innovative quality, safety and performance improvement initiatives to achieve superior clinical outcomes for Orange Coast. She will also collaborate with MemorialCare’s nursing leadership with the goal of enhancing nursing practice and clinical care across MemorialCare.
Braun has more than 20 years of nursing and leadership experience with a clinical background in critical care. She has held various leadership roles in the inpatient and outpatient setting, in both teaching and non-teaching healthcare organizations. Prior to her new appointment, Braun served as the Executive Director of Critical Care Services, Emergency/Trauma and Neuroscience Institute at Providence Mission Hospital. She also assisted in leading the organization in achieving advanced comprehensive stroke certification. Prior to joining Mission, Annabelle worked at Cedars Sinai Medical Center for over eight years as Associate Director of Neurosciences and Neuro Surgical ICU.
Braun received her Bachelor’s degree in nursing from Azusa Pacific University. She also has Master’s and Doctorate degree in nursing administration and practice from UCLA.
"We are confident that Annabelle's extensive experience and tireless commitment to nursing excellence and advancing patient care delivery will make a significant impact on MemorialCare’s leadership team, physicians, nurses, and patients," said Marcia Manker, CEO of MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical Center. "MemorialCare boasts a proud history of amazing Chief Nursing Officers. Annabelle will not only carry the torch, but blaze a new trail by working with our exemplary nursing team to combine compassion and innovation to achieve exemplary patient care now and in the future."
“MemorialCare has a distinguished list of outstanding CNOs, and I am honored and excited to continue their amazing work,” explained Braun. “My goal is to collaborate closely with our dedicated team of nurses and physicians so we can identify, create, and execute specific clinical strategies to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care. I assure you, we exhaust every effort when it comes to not only meeting, but exceeding our patients’ and their loved ones’ expectations. That is the MemorialCare experience that they have come to expect and we are proud to provide.”