HCA/HealthONE’s Swedish Medical Center Welcomes New Director of Trauma

Services

Selina Dallas, MSN, MBA-HCM, RN, NE-BC, brings extensive experience overseeing clinical
excellence and quality improvements to the only level I trauma and burn center in the south Denver
metro area.

Englewood, CO, December 04, 2018 --(PR.com)-- After a national search, Selina Dallas, MSN,
MBA-HCM, RN, NE-BC has been selected as the director of trauma at Swedish Medical Center, a level 1
trauma and burn center located in Englewood, Colorado. Dallas brings extensive experience overseeing
clinical excellence, quality improvement and employee engagement to the 408 bed regional referral
center located in Englewood, Colorado.

Dallas joins Swedish from Detroit Medical Center, an 8 hospital alliance of specialty hospitals, part of
Tenet Health system, where she served as the administrative director over the trauma and burn programs,
and behavioral health. Previously Dallas oversaw the level I trauma, burn, emergency and observation
programs at Detroit Medical Center Adult Central Campus.

In her most recent role as administrative director at Detroit Medical Center, Dallas orchestrated
significant improvements for the level I trauma program by adding additional clinical staff and staffing
resources and increasing employee engagement from the 70th percentile to the 90th percentile. She
directed and led the quality improvement program for the trauma and burn services that included the
development of a burn quality improvement committee and quality improvement initiative for
pre-hospital care. Her guidance led to the successful verification for both the trauma and burn programs
as well as a successful joint commission survey.

Dallas graduated from Eastern Michigan University and received her Master of Science in Nursing from
the University of Phoenix. She completed her Master of Business Administration in Healthcare
Management from Walden University and earned her Nurse Executive Board Certification through the
American Nurses Credentialing Center in 2015.

Dallas is the recipient of numerous awards, including her most recent recognition as the 2018 National
Alliance on Mental Illness Nurse of the year. She is a 2017 Nightingale Award winner, a 2015 MONE
Nurse Leadership Award recipient, and she was honored with the Detroit Medical Center Hospital GEM
Award in 2011. Dallas is very active in the community and is affiliated with the Emergency Nurses
Association, the Michigan Organization of Nurses Executives, the American Organization of Nurses
Executives and the American College of Healthcare Executives. Dallas is also the founder and former
vice president of Black Nurses Rock Detroit Chapter a national nursing organization, and the president
and founder of Big Sisters in Nursing. In her spare time, Dallas enjoys spending time with her family.

About Swedish

Swedish Medical Center, part of HCA's HealthONE, is located in the south metro Denver area where it

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has been a proud member of the community for more than 110 years. An acute care hospital with 408
licensed beds, annually Swedish cares for more than 200,000 patients with a team of approximately 2,000
dedicated employees, 300 volunteers and 1,400 physicians.

With stroke door to treatment times averaging just 20 minutes, Swedish serves as the Rocky Mountain
Region's referral center for the most advanced stroke treatment, and was the state's first Joint Commission
certified Comprehensive Stroke Center. Swedish also serves as the region's neurotrauma and orthopedic
trauma provider and is the south Denver area's only level I trauma facility with a dedicated burn and
reconstructive center. Over 150 facilities regularly transfer highly complex cases to Swedish.

Swedish Medical Center offers patients the highest quality care and the most advanced technologies and
treatments in nearly every medical specialty including adult and pediatric emergency, heart care,
neurology/neurosurgery, pregnancy and childbirth, orthopedics and joint replacement, cancer care,
gastroenterology and liver care, gynecology and urology. Additional information about the hospital is
available at www.SwedishHospital.com.

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Contact Information:
Swedish Medical Center
Kara Hamersky
(303) 817-5708
Contact via Email
www.swedishhospital.com

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