Brenda Sturm, FACHE, CEO of Community Hospital

Brenda L. Sturm was named CEO of  Community Hospital in Torrington, Wyo. in early February 2009.

Sturm had served as Community Hospital’s chief nursing officer since November.

Prior to joining the leadership team at Community Hospital, Sturm served as clinic administrator/division director for the Ethel Lund Medical Center in Juneau. Ethel Lund Medical Center is part of the SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium, which serves the native population of southeast Alaska. She had worked for the consortium since 1990 and held the position of clinic administrator/division director since 2001.

Sturm started her health care career as a certified nursing assistant and then began a progressive path from associate degree (RN), to bachelor’s degree in science/nursing and finally a master of science in nursing/healthcare administration.

Her passion is improvement in patient care services and leadership development.

She has been successful in a number of initiatives that have encouraged native career development, leadership development and improvement in patient services and models of care. She also directed construction of a new clinic and began a homeless healthcare program in Juneau. Her influence to health care programs in Alaska was successfully integrated at the community level as well as on a broader level of care coordination at state and national levels.