Whitney Staub-Juergens
Vice President of Transformation Operations for HCA Healthcare’s (HCAH) Department of Digital Transformation & Innovation (DT&I)
Inactive
DNP-HSL, MSN, RN, NE-BC
Keynote
Innovation through Practice
Digital Transformation and Innovation: Changing Healthcare for GoodMore information coming soon!
Breakout
Innovation through Practice
Design Thinking in Action: Innovating Practice through Empathy and ExperimentationIn this interactive session, we’ll move beyond theory to experience the power of design thinking in healthcare innovation and transformation. Participants will explore real-world challenges, such as nurse-to-nurse handoff, through hands-on activities that center empathy, creativity, and rapid iteration—hallmarks of the design thinking process. Whether you’re new to the method or looking to deepen your practice, this session will equip you with practical tools and critical thinking skills that spark collaboration and drive meaningful changes in your work. Come ready to think differently, co-create solutions, and connect across disciplines!
Biography
Whitney Staub-Juergens, DNP-HSL, MSN, RN, NE-BC is the Vice President of Transformation Operations for HCA Healthcare’s (HCAH) Department of Digital Transformation & Innovation (DT&I). Prior to this role, she successfully served as Vice President of HCAH’s Care Transformation Clinical Operations. Whitney also has experience as a hospital-based nurse, nurse practitioner and executive nurse leader in various roles, as well as various advisory, public-speaking, and board governance appointments.
Whitney provides key strategic operations leadership for HCAH’s robust digital transformation agenda, including all operations and shared services integral to product development, launch, and ensuring generation of value to the organization. Among Whitney’s leadership areas of focus in her role are DT&I execution, sequencing and pacing of the overall DT&I strategic road map, operating model oversight, talent acquisition, and all optimization of all operations and shared services functions. Specific scope includes change management and communications, education and training, innovation location operations, value tracking, agile transformation, ecosystem, transformation operations, and shared services partnerships, including legal, human resources, project management, and finance.
She earned a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP-HSL/minor in Health Systems Leadership) from Chamberlain University in Illinois, and Master’s degree in Nursing (MSN/Adult Nurse Practitioner) from Pennsylvania State University. Whitney has a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing from York College of Pennsylvania, and holds two certifications, Nurse Executive (NE-BC) from American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and Product Management and Strategy from the Wharton School of Business.
Her professional strengths support her ability to embrace the challenge of learning something new or a less clear opportunity needing thought leadership.