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tHE ROAD TO SUCCESS

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Inspiring Others.

LEADING THE WAY

As a teenage boy, Carlos Ramirez left a large city in Mexico and found his calling in a small rural California town.

 

It’s one thing to be called a natural-born leader.

It’s quite another to live it.

Just ask Carlos Ramirez, who as a young man, left Mexicali, Mexico, and crossed into the United States with his parents and three siblings looking for a “better life.” They wound up living in a one-bedroom apartment where he and his siblings slept on the floor while his parents claimed the only bed. It seemed less than ideal to the 15-year-old who had left a big city where his parents worked in the medical field. 

June 08, 2015: Jackie Dishner. Phoenix Focus Magazine

EXPERIENCE.
  • Chief Operations Officer (COO)

  • Chief Nursing Officer (CNO)

  • Regional Director of Operations (RDO)

  • Local Health Authority Commissioner 

  • Adjunct Faculty Professor  

  • Executive Director (ED)

  • Director of Patient Care Services (DPCS)

  • Director of Critical Care & Outpatient Services

  • Emergency Department Clinical Manager

Honors & Awards.

  • Home Health & Hospice JCAHO Accreditation 2022

  • Home Health CHAP certification 2018 - 2022

  • Home Health Palliative CHAP Certification 2019 - 2022

  • University of Phoenix – Distinguished Alumni Award 2018

  • Home Care Elite 2011 - 2022

  • Imperial Valley Press-Reader's Choice Award "Best Home Health Provider" 2018

  • AccentCare West South Region-Leader of the Year Award. 2015 - 2016

  • AccentCare Hospice CHAP Accreditation 2016

  • AccentCare-Best Contribution Margin Performance to Budget 2014

  • AccentCare-Best Revenue Performance 2014

  • AccentCare-Exceeding 2014 Budget Performance

  • AccentCare-Revenue Budget Achievement Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 - 2014

  • AccentCare-Revenue Budget Achievement Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 - 2013

  • AccentCare-Revenue Budget Achievement Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 - 2012

  • AccentCare-Fastest Growing Agency 2011 - El Centro

  • AccentCare-Agency Revenue Achievement Award 2010 

  • El Centro Regional Medical Center ECRMC) Hospital Shining Star Award - 2002

EDUCATION.
  • Doctor of Health Administration (DHA) 2021

  • Masters of Science in Nursing (MSN) 2009

  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) 2006

  • Registered Nurse (RN) 1995

Certifications.
  • Basic Life Support (CPR), 1995-Present

  • Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN), 1998-2010

  • Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS), 2003

  • Advanced Critical Life Support (ACLS), 1996-2009

  • Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), 1996-2006

  • Mobile Intensive Care Nurse (MICN), 1998-2006

  • Trauma Nurse Core Curriculum (TNCC), 1997-2001

Within two years of finishing high school, Ramirez had signed up for the nursing program at Imperial Valley College and was hired at El Centro Regional Medical Center as an emergency department aide while finishing his nursing degree.

“One of the professors saw how much I loved caring for the patients and recommended me,” he says. He explains that he was encouraged by their positive feedback. “It made me feel very good.”

Ambitious, called a “natural-born leader” by friends and family, Ramirez migrated toward hard work, including picking grapes in Coachella, California, and taking a second job grilling and serving burgers during his early college years.

“Customer service. That’s where it started,” he quips. After earning his registered nurse (RN) license, he was soon promoted to his first leadership position as the in-charge nurse during his shift at the medical center.

 

“In a rural setting, there are not a lot of nurses. You get promoted quickly—maybe too quickly. I was thrown in without having management experience. But I was lucky. I’d already had that strong clinical experience and natural leadership ability,” Ramirez says.

“In my rural community, there was a lack of bachelor's or master's degree nurses and leaders. I wanted to make a difference, and become well-educated and experienced in order to advance in my career and to help my colleagues and my community,” he says.

Committed to continuing to teach and train, Ramirez now shadows nursing students twice weekly at the local hospital. He hopes to inspire and motivate them to continue with higher education.

“We need more nurse leaders in our small rural community representing nurses in the inpatient and outpatient settings,” he says.

The natural-born leader is showing them how to succeed.

 

June 08, 2015: Jackie Dishner. Phoenix Focus Magazine

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