Betsy Wade (bwade@signaturehealthcarellc.com) is the Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer at Signature HealthCARE in Louisville, KY.
When I accepted the position of chief compliance and ethics officer for Signature HealthCARE four years ago, the job came with one condition: that I become a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA).
Like many, my compliance career had grown out of the administrative side of healthcare. I had a Master of Public Health degree focused on health services management, and the only time I had worn scrubs was to accompany a hospital photographer filming B-roll of a live donor nephrectomy in the operating room. But I had no clinical experience.