Kathleen Haughey Eannone
Flemington
Summary
Experienced nursing executive with strong track record in healthcare leadership and patient care management. Skilled in strategic planning, policy development, and driving quality improvement initiatives. Strong focus on team collaboration, ensuring reliable performance and adaptability to changing needs. Adept at fostering culture of teamwork and achieving exceptional results.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Chief Nursing Officer Behavioral Health (CNO)
Saint Clare's Health System
Boonton, NJ
05.2025 - Current
- Oversees nursing operations for a five inpatient units totaling 110 beds, with a 144 bed capacity, and Morris County screening center (6 beds).
- Oversees several outpatient/community based/grant cost centers, including the Addiction Treatment Services (OPS, Consults, IOP and Acute PHP), IOTSS, PACT, IFSS, School-based Services, Adolescent PHP, traditional OPS, Supportive Employment, Two EISS locations in Warren and Morris and several community- based and several screening grant funded programs
- Overall responsibility for the quality of care provided by all staff within the service line
- Responsible for preparation for re-licensing audits for the continuum and Joint Commission visits
- Manages daily operations and revenue cycle by tight oversight of unit budgets, P&L statements, and monitoring billing, denials, appeals, and actual % of collections from all payors.
- Supervises pharmacy services for all 3 hospitals (medical and behavioral health)
- Serves as a member of the hospital governing board, Med Exec, Pharmacy and Therapeutics, and Hospital Clinical Operation Leadership committee.
- Supported implementation of evidence-based practices to enhance nursing protocols.
- Assessed patient care needs and collaborated with interdisciplinary teams for optimal outcomes.
Assistant Vice President
Hunterdon Behavioral Health
Flemington, NJ
11.2023 - 05.2025
- Oversees nursing operations for a fourteen-bed inpatient unit
- Oversees several outpatient/community based/grant cost centers, including the Addiction Treatment Services (OPS, Consults, IOP and Acute PHP), SPMI PHP, Acute General MH PHP, Emergency screening, IOC, IFSS, FCIU, School-based Services, Adolescent IOP, traditional OPS, Supportive Employment and several community- based and several screening grant funded programs
- Overall responsibility for the quality of care provided by all staff within the service line
- Responsible for preparation for re-licensing audits for the continuum and Joint Commission visits
- Manages daily operations and revenue cycle by tight oversite of unit budgets, P-n-L statements and monitoring billing, denials, appeals and actual % of collections from all payors
- Assisted in insurance renegotiation of current contracts, for higher reimbursement rates for current services provided. In addition, worked with finance to obtain competitive rates for addition of new services within the business line
- Applied for new Insurance provider contracts
- Consistently maintain, at targeted goal or higher, psychiatric core measures, patient satisfaction, and HBIP measure compliance through monthly audits and targeted re-education
- SWOT planning, with core team members, and strategic planning for the service line
- Maintains quality care systems and standards, including creating and updating policies, procedures, protocols and program manuals
- Direct supervision of four program directors, the office supervisor, nurse navigator and the business manager
Chief Nursing Officer (CNO)
Foundations Behavioral Health
Doylestown, PA
11.2021 - 04.2024
- Oversaw nursing operations for a one hundred-twenty-two-bed adolescent psychiatric inpatient and residential hospital, as well as four off-campus schools
- Overall responsibility for the quality of care provided by approximately one hundred and eighty inpatient nursing employees, three school nurses, two registered dieticians, and two pediatric service line nursing staff
- Was Responsible for inpatient unit preparation for licensing and Joint Commission visits and audits
- Managed daily operations by overseeing financials, and key performance indicators by managing employee performance concerns, following staffing ratios, and oversite of unit budgets
- Consistently maintained, at targeted goal or higher, psychiatric core measures, patient satisfaction, and HBIP measure compliance through monthly audits and targeted re-education
- Maintained quality care systems and standards, including creating and updating policies, procedures, and protocols
- Was a member of key hospital committees including Board of Governors, Executive Leadership, Med Exec, P/T, Infection Control, Restraint and Seclusion
- Served as the Health Disparities Official for the facility
- Was responsible for the facilities infection control plan
- Had direct supervision of fifteen nursing managers/supervisors, and the Director of HIM/Patient Advocate
- Additional position held at Foundations Behavioral Health
- Maintained consultant status from 11/2023-4/2024 to assist the new CNO in acclimating to their new role, supported the facility during a state licensing inspection, and provided supervision/support to the CNO and nurse educator (when needed).
Director of Eating Disorders Inpatient, PHP & Outpatient Services and General Mental Health PHP
RWJUH Somerset
Somerville, NJ
04.2020 - 11.2021
- During tenure increased census in inpatient and PHP/IOP eating disorders programs, as well as the general mental health PHP/IOP units
- Clearance and management of all patient evaluations, for level of care, for eating disorders programs
- Obtained prior authorization for eating disorder inpatient admissions
- Oversaw nursing operations for a fourteen-bed eating disorder unit (EDU), providing leadership and management for a staff of approximately twenty-five employees
- Oversaw operations for general mental health partial hospital program, providing leadership and management for a staff of approximately ten
- Oversaw operations for an eating disorder partial hospital program, providing leadership and management for a staff of approximately fifteen
- Had overall responsibility for management of therapists, registered dieticians, occupational therapists, and adjunct therapies in inpatient ED Tx, as well as, in outpatient EDU and general mental health PHP/IOP
- Assisted in development of eating disorders programming for inpatient and outpatient
- Assisted in development of mental health PHP programming
- Consistently maintained patient satisfaction, and HBIP measure compliance through monthly audits and targeted re-education
- Developed and maintained quality care systems and standards, including creating and updating policies, procedures, and protocols
- Responsible for inpatient unit preparation and compliance for Magnet recertification
- Managed daily operations by overseeing financials, key performance indicators and employee performance
- Hired and oversaw the quality of the nursing, social work, and certified activities therapists work products to produce ensure high-quality group content, behavioral management plans for adolescents, and treatment planning
Nurse Manager of Detox and DD unit
UPENN Princeton Medical Center
Plainsboro, NJ
03.2016 - 04.2020
- Developed and ran new employee orientation for new hires
- Created, monitored, and tracked educational needs for facility staff
- Created and ran yearly skills fair for staff
- Partnered with the wound care team at medical center, and became liaison with wound care RNs for education and consults
- Oversaw nursing operations for a thirty-two bed dual diagnosis and detox unit, providing leadership and management for a staff of approximately thirty employees
- Assisted floor nurses in making care decisions by applying exceptional clinical judgment and knowledge of facility policies
- Watched department operations to maintain effective coverage of all needs
- Received and researched complaints from families, patients, and clinical staff to resolve concerns to full satisfaction
- Improved patient outcomes through peer groups and client education
- Coordinated employee schedules and job assignments
- Managed performance of nursing staff by reviewing task completion, prioritization, and reports
- Trained and mentored new RNs on best practices, hospital policies and standards of care
- Participated in continuing education programs and workshops to enhance training and nursing knowledge
- Supervised staff, and development programming on two additional dual diagnosis units in the absence of a nurse manager for approximately six months
- Additional job responsibilities while the Nurse Manager at the Center for Eating Disorders Care at UPENN Princeton Medical Center, position dates 3/2016 -to- 7/2/2017
- Developed and maintained quality care systems and standards, including creating and updating policies, procedures, and guidelines
- Responded to emergency situations with speed, expertise, and level-headed approaches to provide optimal care, support and life-saving interventions, PALS/ACLS certified during tenure
- Responsible for unit preparation and compliance for Magnet recertification
Director of Adolescent Unit
Carrier Clinic (now a Hackensack-Meridian partner)
Belle Mead, NJ
12.2014 - 03.2016
- Complete oversight for approximately sixty-five staff (non-nursing included), unit budget, patients, programming, acceptance of admissions on thirty-six bed psychiatric adolescent unit
- Assisted in development of, and supervision of, staff by providing orientation, training, support, and leadership
- Managed daily operations by overseeing key financials, performance indicators and employee performance
- Through the organizational Pillars of Excellence, and executive committee membership, implemented successful strategies for employee management, occupancy and revenue growth, expense control and quality of services
- Through yearly strategy mapping, determined performance goals for each department and provided feedback on methods for reaching milestones
- Improved staff morale through servant leadership initiatives, and monthly employee rounding
- Hired and oversaw work of nursing, social work, and certified activities therapists to produce high-quality group content and behavioral management plans for adolescents
- Built strong network of outside referral sources within community
- Created a new level system and token economy for the unit
- Interim Director of Blake Recovery Center, a detox and rehab unit, for approximately 9 months, while still maintaining role as Director of the adolescent unit.
- Previous positions held at Carrier Clinic
- 1999-2006, held the following positions: Older Adult staff RN, Charge RN on Blake Recovery Unit, on-call RN
Assistant Nurse Manager
Rutgers University Behavioral Health
Piscataway, NJ
01.2012 - 01.2015
- Provided training and supervision to approximately thirty staff, twenty-five staff working in inpatient adult, adolescent and APS/CAIS screening, as well as five RN's working in adult acute and extended Partial hospital programs, Children's Day School, children's partial hospital, and traditional outpatient sites
- Addressed unit staff concerns, including staffing ratios, resource management, allocation of responsibilities and optimized workload management
- Coordinated care with physicians and other clinical staff to prepare for treatment team
- Maintained responsibility for sample closet management at five sites, streamlined and improved patient outcomes through training and leadership
- Previous Positions Held at Rutgers University Behavioral Health
- 1/2003-3/2005, Staff RN
- 3/2005- 1/2012, UBHC partial hospital staff RN
Education
Master of Science in Nursing - Nursing Education
Chamberlain School of Nursing
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey
Associate degree - undefined
Raritan Valley Community College
Skills
- Well versed in hospital quality measures
- Conflict resolution (extensive union experience, including contract negotiations)
- Budget development and management
- Recruitment, hiring, and retention of multidisciplinary staff
- Successful grant and proposal writing
- Staffing management to budget expectations
- Curriculum development to meet regulatory standards, while being a dynamic patient satisfier in treatment
- Systems management
- Practiced inpatient and outpatient psychiatric and mental health leader and caregiver
- Strategic Planning for departmental and organizational growth
Accomplishments
- Responsible for behavioral healths magnet preparation at Robert Wood Johnson Somerset which assisted in leading to full re-designation
- Accomplished HRO champion and proficient in Just Culture principles
- RU UBHC performance improvement winner for a project in partial hospital, for the creation and successful implementation of a medication education and information sheet for the 'everyday patient'
- Created an eight-week smoking cessation curriculum for Rutgers UBHC through collaboration with NJ Quits
- Developed a year-long nursing curriculum for the adult partial hospital at Rutgers UBHC
- Improved retention rates and satisfaction scores of nursing staff at Foundations Behavioral Health
- Created a quarterly skills fair at Foundations Behavioral Health
- Oversaw a successful JC visit at Foundations, with no significant findings in 2022
- Supervised a successful behavioral health JC visit in 2024, at Hunterdon Behavioral Health, with no significant findings
- At Hunterdon Behavioral Health directed a DOH (DMHAS deem status) site licensing visit for traditional OPS, as well as a DCPP relicensing site visit, with no significant findings
- Began new IOP day program geared for general mental health patients at Hunterdon Behavioral Health in 7/2024 which is averaging twenty patients daily
- Rolled out a new acute PHP track for SPMI patients on
- Petitioned the state, and was awarded a temporary waiver for the conversion of two beds, on the inpatient fourteen bed psychiatric unit, from fourteen voluntary beds to a twelve-bed voluntary and two closed acute bed unit- these are the first committed beds in Hunterdon County
- At Hunterdon arranged for the Training of twenty staff in Biofeedback, and obtained equipment necessary to incorporate the treatment modality into treatment plans through state grant funding
- Created a proposal for TMS, purchased the program and equipment through state grant funding, with a planned rollout 7/2025
Certification
- Registered Nurse in State of New Jersey
- Registered Nurse in State of Pennsylvania
- ANCC certification in Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing (PMH-BC)
- Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification
- Approved from the ANCC to sit for the Nurse Executive, Advanced Certification (date to be scheduled)
Timeline
Chief Nursing Officer Behavioral Health (CNO)
Saint Clare's Health System
05.2025 - Current
Assistant Vice President
Hunterdon Behavioral Health
11.2023 - 05.2025
Chief Nursing Officer (CNO)
Foundations Behavioral Health
11.2021 - 04.2024
Director of Eating Disorders Inpatient, PHP & Outpatient Services and General Mental Health PHP
RWJUH Somerset
04.2020 - 11.2021
Nurse Manager of Detox and DD unit
UPENN Princeton Medical Center
03.2016 - 04.2020
Director of Adolescent Unit
Carrier Clinic (now a Hackensack-Meridian partner)
12.2014 - 03.2016
Assistant Nurse Manager
Rutgers University Behavioral Health
01.2012 - 01.2015
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Rutgers the State University of New Jersey
Associate degree - undefined
Raritan Valley Community College
Master of Science in Nursing - Nursing Education
Chamberlain School of Nursing
ACTIVITIES AND HONORS
Member of APNA, Member of NJHA, Member of NJAMHAA, Previous Member of the NJHA Psychiatric Nurse Leader Constituency Group (not meeting currently)