Annette Albertson, RN, BSN, MBA, a Registered Nurse with Navvis Healthcare

Get to know Registered Nurse, Annette Albertson, who serves patients in St. Louis, Missouri.

Annette is a registered nurse specializing in population health. She is the Senior Director of Client Operations at Navvis Healthcare in St. Louis, Missouri. 

Her clinical and educational experience provides significant strength in serving Navvis’ clients. She helps lead Navvis’ programmatic operations, engaging patients uniquely while remaining vigilant of the population goal to exceed the Quadruple Aim.

Navvis Healthcare is a population health market maker—working with health plans, health systems, and physician organizations to build, operate, and manage new business models that accelerate and fundamentally change the way healthcare is delivered. Its approach creates aligned markets by facilitating unique partnerships between key market players. Addressing the entire population and people from all walks of life, it supports all payers, payment models and lines of business, connects the full continuum of care, and activates all providers, caregivers, and family members. This model solves the underlying systemic issues in each market, dictating real change. The result is a healthcare ecosystem that never stops caring—one that is sustainable and eliminates complexity for consumers, addresses burnout for providers, and reduces the high cost of the system.

Graduating with her Associate of Science in Nursing degree from Lewis & Clark Community College in 2000, Annette went on to further her education. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management and her Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Phoenix in 2011 and 2014, respectively. Three years later, in 2017, she graduated with her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Saint Louis University.

Clinically, Annette has served patients in many roles, including working with patients experiencing complex medical conditions, engaging patients through call center operations, providing outreach to patients through health and wellness programs, and collaborating with healthcare care providers in clinical office settings.

Her professional clinical experience includes roles with Anthem, SSM Health, Esse Health, Healthways, and BJC Health System. These experiences allow her to work with clients to improve processes serving patients effectively, and because of her leadership experience in these healthcare organizations, she uses Lean Six Sigma (Green Belt) and healthcare administration knowledge to assist Navvis’ clients realize success with new models of reimbursement.

As a member of the Advisory Board for the Missouri State University’s Customer Experience Certificate Program, Annette provides valuable feedback on the program’s effectiveness, serves as a mentor, and shares experiences from a healthcare perspective to faculty and students.

A Registered Nurse (RN) is a nurse who has graduated from a nursing program and met the requirements outlined by a country, state, province or similar licensing body to obtain a nursing license. RNs fulfill a variety of job duties. In addition to their primary role in treating and caring for patients, their responsibilities also include educating patients and the public about a variety of medical conditions, as well as providing emotional support and advice to the families of their patients. Other RN job functions include leadership, research, performing diagnostic tests and analyzing results, operating medical equipment, administering medications, recording patients’ symptoms and medical histories, and assisting with patient rehabilitation and follow-up.

Selected as a Top Nurse for 2020 and featured in the 2020 edition of Worldwide Leaders in Healthcare, Annette attributes her success to being passionate about the nursing profession and being the best advocate to her patients.

Learn More About Annette Albertson:

Through her online profile, https://todaysnurse.org/network/index.php?do=/4147024/info/ 

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