Jane Englebright PhD, RN, CENP, FAAN

Jane D. Englebright is senior vice president and chief nurse executive for Nashville, Tennessee-based HCA, the nation’s leading provider of healthcare services. A nationally recognized nursing leader, Dr. Englebright provides professional leadership for facility chief nursing officers across HCA and approximately 80,000 nurses working in HCA hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and other sites of care. She also leads HCA’s CNO Council in advancing a nursing agenda for leadership, evidence-based practice and performance improvement, innovation, partnership and accountability.

Dr. Englebright joined HCA in 1992 as a critical care nurse at Lewisville Medical Center in Texas and became chief nursing officer for San Antonio Community Hospital in 1996. In 1999, she joined HCA’s corporate quality department, where she founded the patient safety program, and in 2007, she became HCA’s first chief nursing officer. In 2014, Dr. Englebright led a team to successfully charter and implement an AHRQ-accredited Patient Safety Organization that further accelerated HCA's efforts in advancing patient safety.