Tracie Stratton/Courtesy photo

BY MAIRE O’NEILL
maire@losalamosreporter.com

Lovelace Health System announced Wednesday that Tracie Stratton, RN, MSN, CPPS, will join Lovelace as chief executive officer (CEO) of Lovelace Women’s Hospital and Lovelace Westside Hospital, effective Nov. 5. Stratton is leaving the 47-bed Los Alamos Medical Center (LAMC) after serving the hospital as CEO for four years.

The announcement notes that during her time at LAMC, Stratton opened cardiac rehabilitation program and sleep lab, also earning a CMS Star Rating 3. for the facility. Under Stratton’s her leadership, LAMC was named a Newsweek Top 4 Hospital in New Mexico in 2023 and received a LeapFrog Hospital Safety Grade of “A” for Fall 2023.

Prior to her time in New Mexico, Stratton served as interim executive operations officer of Capital Medical Center, a LifePoint Health facility in Olympia, Wash, a 107 bed facility where she led the development of a COVID-19 wing and helped to create a transfer review process and committee, later deemed a best practice.

Stratton earned a bachelor of science in exercise physiology from the University of Wyoming, in Laramie, Wyo., an associate of science in nursing from Casper College in Casper, Wyo. and a master of science in nursing administration from the University of Mary in Bismark, N.D.