许多人会选择放弃在全球流行病期间领导医院的机会，但亚洲博彩网站校友迪宁·里士满（Deneen Richmond）接受了这一挑战。 Already on the fast track in her career, she was tapped to become thepresident of Luminis Health Doctors Community Medical Center in Prince George’s County in November 2020—11 months into a pandemic that gripped hospitals across the country.

里士满管理着超过1600名员工，管理着马里兰州兰哈姆市一家拥有50年历史的社区医院2.54亿美元的收入基础。 她热衷于促进卫生公平和消除卫生差距。 里士满有超过30年的医疗保健领导经验。

“It’s been challenging and rewarding at the same time,” Richmond said. “We didn’t have a vaccine available, and t在这里 were questions about how it was transmitted and few places to go to be tested. 的他们在社区和我的员工中都是无名小卒。 我的一位重症监护室护士告诉我，在这段时间里，她处理的死亡人数比她整个职业生涯中处理的还要多。 It was draining, but we were always 在这里 and worked to keep our staff safe.”

Richmond, born in D.C. and raised in Prince George’s County, is proud of the hospital’s work to serve the county during the pandemic. According to Richmond, Luminis was the first to establish walk-up and drive-up testing without an appointment or requirement for a doctor’s orders.

医院在食品分发点和老年中心提供支持，并在短缺时发放了COVID-19护理包，其中包括口罩。 It also created one of the first and largest COVID-19 vaccination distribution rollouts, partnering with Reid Temple, Prince George’s Community College, First Un海茨维尔的卫理公会教堂，美容院和理发店。

的 pandemic wasn’t Richmond’s only experience with a national health crisis. 她的第一份护理工作是在乔治华盛顿大学医院的HIV/AIDS楼层。 在20世纪80年代中期，艾滋病的治疗还处于实验阶段，关于艾滋病的传播和如何保护医护人员的信息很少。

“T在这里 were a lot of unknowns, and patients were being stigmatized,” she said. “T在这里 was a lot of family dynamics involved. It helped me to think through how I could continue to have an impact in communities w在这里 people were being marginalized.”

Richmond holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of the District of Columbia (‘ 86) and a master’s degree in Health 政府 from George Washington University (‘ 92), w在这里 she is an adjunct professor.
“亚洲博彩网站 prepared me well,” Richmond said. “It solidified and served as an important launching of my interests and passions and prepared me as I started my professional career.”

虽然她从未想过自己能领导一家医院，但她始终对改变和机会持开放态度，在那里她可以有所作为。

Her weekly routine includes meeting with stakeholders, local and state leaders, and community and faith leaders to understand concerns and needs to improve healthcare in Prince George’s County. 这些问题已经得到确认，并正在得到解决。

医院正准备在兰哈姆校区开设一个综合行为健康项目。 它获得了2000万美元的赠款，用于建造3.1万平方英尺的综合行为健康设施，该设施将提供门诊服务、无电梯的行为健康紧急护理、为处理药物滥用的人提供稳定服务，以及一个住院精神科。

里士满说，医院还准备扩大对女性的专业服务，从乳房手术到减肥。 此外，计划还包括增加一个产科厢房。 Richmond said eight out of ten women deliver their babies outside of Prince George’s County.

虽然里士满与社区需求保持一致，但她从未失去与患者和工作人员的需求联系。 Living only a mile away, she is proud of what she describes as a “family culture” at the hospital, w在这里 she works to stay connected at all levels.

众所周知，里士满会与工作人员一起进行医疗查房，与他们一起检查并会见病人。 她每月召开一次领导团队会议，并邀请一组员工在她的办公室与她共进午餐，以了解他们并倾听他们的担忧。 此外，里士满每月还主持一个内部播客，采访部门主管。

她是这个国家为数不多的黑人女性医院首席执行官之一。 里士满是新成立的黑人女性首席执行官圆桌会议的成员，该会议由美国医院协会成立，旨在为黑人女性建立一个支持系统，黑人女性在全国5000家社区医院的首席执行官中只占5%。 她还通过CHIEF（一个面向所有行业的女性高管的组织）和全国卫生服务高管协会（National Association of 卫生服务 executives）的项目获得了支持。 她还得到了丈夫、两个成年儿子、导师和一个大家庭的支持。

“As a woman of color, I am very tuned to the longstanding impact of structural racism and disparities that we see in our communities,” Richmond said. “Growing up, I experienced it firsthand. 作为一名担任领导职务的黑人女性，我对这些问题肯定有一些经验。 T在这里 isn’t a person of color who hasn’t. What I look at now is how to make sure I am truly making a difference in this community so that we won’t have these same conversations five to ten years from now.”