Nurse Leader with Experience
Brenda grew up in Kansas, helping her mother during health crises among the younger siblings. Her grandparents worked at the Topeka State Mental Hospital. Over the years, she grew to recognizes the depth of compassion her grandparents had for their patients. As a young teenager, unbeknownst to her, she developed the compassion her grandparents had for their patients’ and that she wanted to follow in their footsteps.
At 16, she was tentatively accepted into Kansas City Kansas Community Junior College School of Nursing. She entered the College after graduation. She overcame personal, social, and, racial challenges to receive her Registered Nurse degree. Recognizing the importance of higher education, she obtained her Bachelor of Nursing at The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), continued with a Master of Science in Nursing, and completed her Doctorate of Nursing at The University of San Diego (USD).
As a Lecturer at California State University, San Marcos, she teaches Leadership and Professional Issues, to empower future nurses in leadership, delegation, change process, and Interprofessional collaboration, coordination, and communication, “the 3-Cs”. Nurse Miller serves as an Administrative House Supervisor, where she supports and mentors professional nurses.
Brenda has lived in San Diego County for over two decades and has been a homeowner in La Mesa since 2016 where she lives with her husband, Wilfrid Houeto. Her son, daughter-in-law and three wonderful grandchildren, who live in the healthcare district, are a source of strength and motivation.
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Learn about the Grossmont Healthcare District (GHD)
The Grossmont Healthcare District is a public agency that supports the health and wellness of East County residents. The Board of Directors consists of 5 members. The District has been divided into five zones. She is a candidate for zone 3.
Grossmont Hospital opened as a new public health district in 1955 where a 100 beds hospital was built in a community with growing healthcare needs. Burton Jones served as the first President. Six decades later, Grossmont now has 524 licensed beds. In the 1980s, the lack of funding for the institution threatened the survival of the public-private partnership. In 1991, Grossmont entered a lease for hospital operations with the nonprofit Sharp Healthcare. The Grossmont Healthcare District has maintained formal ownership over the hospital.
The merger of Grossmont and Sharp continues today with two boards. Sharp manages all hospital operations and maintenance, and the Grossmont Healthcare District manages all community activities covering a 750-square-mile area, with approximately 100,000 residents in each zone.
Learn more at https://www.grossmonthealthcare.org
Brenda’s Commitments
Nurse Brenda wants to meet the American Nurses Association call for:
“Nurse leaders to sit at the table where healthcare decisions are made.”
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Health Equity
To improve health equity to uninsured and underserved communities in East County, Nurse Miller will promote accountability to the highest quality and safest care for all people.
While the Sharp Healthcare Board of Directors addresses the immediate hospital needs, improvements, and staffing issues – the Grossmont Healthcare District Board can further help meet the community’s needs.
Nurse Miller will continue to build bridges between the Grossmont Healthcare District, the Sharp Board, and community partners to ensure every resident can access hiqh quality care. -
Stewardship of Public Resources
To address stewardship of public resources for the district, oversight and transparency is required to ensure projects are completed efficiently and effectively as planned.
Nurse Miller will be ready on day one to support the Grossmont Healthcare Foundation’s initiatives including the new Sharp Grossmont Hospital for Neuroscience, dedicated to care of patients who need advanced neurosurgical, neurological, comprehensive-spine care. -
Nursing Shortage
To reduce the nursing shortage Nurse Miller will be strategic and proactive using educational scholarships, and grant funding to address current threats to the U.S. Nurse Workforce and to increase attention to the needs in all areas of nursing.
Throughout her career, Nurse Miller has trained and mentored many nurses and knows from lived experience the importance of outside support including scholarships and grants.Cultivating future generations of skilled nurses from as early as middle-school is central to addressing the nursing shortage.
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Health Policy
To track the development of health policy and understand the laws and regulations that govern the District, Nurse Miller will remain vigilant.
By maintaining regular, proactive communication with all constituents and stakeholders, Nurse Miller will make sure health policies are accessible, understandable, and serving the best interests of our patients and families.
As politicians make healthcare policies that involve individuals’ rights, as healthcare leaders, we must support and protect every person’s dignity and autonomy in making their personal medical decisions.
