Cape Girardeau, Missouri - Saint Francis is happy to welcome L. Darline Brown, MBA, BSN, RN as Patient Care Manager. In her new role, she will be responsible for delivering care, developing policies and procedures, and maintaining standards of care. 

 

Brown previously served as nurse manager of the medical floor and the emergency department at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Missouri and nurse manager of orthopedics and medical telemetry at SoutheastHealth. She first joined Saint Francis in 2005 as a clinical resource nurse, later serving as patient care manager of neuroscience units, served as Director of Critical Care at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center and most recently as administrator of Sikeston Convalescent Center in Sikeston, Mo.

 

She earned both an Associate’s and Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing from Southeast Missouri State University before earning her Master’s in Business Administration in Health Care at William Woods University.

Saint Francis Medical Center is a 308-bed facility serving more than 713,000 people throughout Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas. Guided by its mission to provide a ministry of healing and wellness inspired by its Christian philosophy and values, the Medical Center has become a progressive, innovative regional tertiary care referral center. Saint Francis’ major service lines, which have received national recognition, include the Neurosciences Institute; Orthopedic Institute; Family BirthPlace, featuring the region’s first Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; Heart Hospital; Emergency and Level III Trauma Center; Cancer Institute; and Fitness Plus.