Oswego Health recently promoted LEROY VALENTINE, RN to director of the emergency department. He has been a licensed registered nurse since 2015 and began his career at Oswego Health in 2017, working on the night shift in the emergency department. Upon graduation from nursing school, Valentine worked at Upstate Medical University. Oswego Health has also […]
Oswego Health recently promoted LEROY VALENTINE, RN to director of the emergency department. He has been a licensed registered nurse since 2015 and began his career at Oswego Health in 2017, working on the night shift in the emergency department. Upon graduation from nursing school, Valentine worked at Upstate Medical University.
Oswego Health has also recently promoted two licensed registered nurses to significant leadership positions RYAN FRENCH, RN has been named director of the intensive-care unit (ICU). She started her career at Oswego Health as a newly licensed registered nurse in the medical-surgical unit in 2010. Within one year, French transitioned to the ICU. By 2017, she was promoted to senior RN in the ambulatory surgical unit, until recently where she has been promoted to oversee the entire ICU as its director.
JODY WOOD, RN was recently promoted to director of surgical services in addition to add to her other recently increased responsibilities. Wood joined Oswego Health in 2005 as a business services coordinator. In 2009 she earned her associate degree in nursing from Cayuga Community College and became a licensed registered nurse. Once licensed, she worked in the medical-surgical unit until 2011, when she moved into an RN role in the surgical-services unit. In 2018, she was promoted to RN educator/staff development on the surgical-services unit. In February 2020, Wood was again promoted to the director of the operating room and most recently was given the additional responsibilities of overseeing the post-anesthesia care, ambulatory surgery, and pre-admission testing units, in addition to the operating room. She was then promoted once again to director of surgical services. Wood is currently taking part in the RN tuition assistance program as she finishes her bachelor’s degree in nursing at Empire State College.
