John D. Crossley serves as Parkland Health & Hospital System's Chief Nursing Officer. Crossley will be responsible for ensuring the overall direction, leadership and executive management of Nursing Administration, Education, Recruitment and Centralized Staffing departments. In addition, he will continue the development and implementation of an ongoing program to monitor, evaluate and improve the quality of nursing care. Crossley comes to Parkland from Scott and White Health System in Temple, where he served as Executive Director for Quality and Chief Nursing Officer since 2004. Notably, in 2001, Crossley led the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston to Magnet Recognition for Excellence in Nursing Service, awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. For more than 30 years he has served in various capacities as a staff nurse, director, vice president and chief nursing officer for academic health care systems including the University of Michigan Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and University Hospitals of Cleveland/University Hospitals Health System |