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Dr. Beth A. Brooks Achieves Fellow Status in the American College of Healthcare Executives

Dr. Beth A. Brooks Achieves Fellow Status in the American College of Healthcare Executives

Beth A. Brooks, PhD, RN, FACHE, and Senior Partner at JWT Employment Communications, one of the world’s largest recruitment marketing and internal communications companies, achieved the status of Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) as of January 1, 2007. The ACHE is an international professional society of 30,000 healthcare executives who lead hospitals, health care systems and other health care organizations throughout the country.

New York, NY (PRWEB) January 11, 2007

Beth A. Brooks, PhD, RN, FACHE, and Senior Partner at JWT Employment Communications, one of the world’s largest recruitment marketing and internal communications companies, achieved the status of Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (http://www. ache. org/) (ACHE) as of January 1, 2007. The ACHE is an international professional society of 30,000 healthcare executives who lead hospitals, health care systems and other health care organizations throughout the country.

A Certified Healthcare Executive since 2002, Dr. Brooks achieved the status of Fellow by demonstrating professional accomplishments and commitment to leadership excellence. With over 20 years of experience in health care Dr. Brooks has held positions as a nurse recruiter, nurse manager and director of nursing and is currently the health care industry thought leader for JWT Employment Communications, responsible for the agency’s expertise on the attraction, recruitment and retention of health care talent. Dr. Brooks is a member of the Board of Directors of the Illinois Organization of Nurse Leaders and Valparaiso University’s National Council for the College of Nursing; she also serves on the Publications Committee for the American Organization of Nurse Executives. She is a member of the American Organization of Nurse Executives, the American College of Healthcare Executives, and the Academy of Management.

Dr. Brooks is widely published in the nursing administration and health care management literature and presents workshops internationally and nationally. Previously in her career, Dr. Brooks worked at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she was Associate Dean for Education Outreach, Executive Director of the Institute for Healthcare Innovation, and Director of the Graduate Program in Administrative Nursing in the University’s College of Nursing, where she taught the graduate human resource management course. She also founded the Brooks Group, Inc., a health care consulting and training company dedicated to improving the quality of nursing work life.

A graduate of Valparaiso University (B. S.N.), Dr. Brooks received an M. S. degree in Nursing Administration from Northwestern University and a Ph. D. in Nursing Science from the University of Illinois.

About JWT Employment Communications

JWT Employment Communications helps employers attract, recruit and retain staff through comprehensive advertising, marketing and employee communications services, measurement tools, consulting resources and strategic approaches to talent acquisition and management.

The agency has 32 offices across North America and internationally. It is a subsidiary of JWT, an agency of WPP (NASDAQ: WPPGY) that ranks among the oldest and largest full-service global advertising agencies.

This press release was distributed through eMediawire by Human Resources Marketer (HR Marketer: www. HRmarketer. com) on behalf of the company listed above.

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