Jeanette Snell, MS
CSR Consultant, Joint Commission Resources, Inc.

Jeanette Snell brings more than 20 years of health care experience to her role as consultant for Joint Commission Resources and the Continuous Service Readiness program for New York and Pennsylvania. In addition to experience as a cardiac surgical and critical care nurse, she has experience as a traveling nurse and has worked in several facilities from large academic medical centers to a small, rural community hospital.

Mrs. Snell also has worked in utilization management and review for a commercial insurance company. Most recently she served as the Quality Improvement Director for Alice Hyde Medical Center in Malone, New York for eight years. In this role, she had responsibility for accreditation and regulatory activities, clinical risk management, patient satisfaction and safety, patient advocacy, social work, medical staff office, infection prevention and control, case management, quality improvement, utilization and pay-for-performance activities.

Mrs. Snell has served as chair of the New York State Continuous Service Readiness Committee for the last two years and has been involved in planning for the annual conference in November.

Mrs. Snell received a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Thomas Jefferson University College of Allied Health Sciences and a master’s of science degree in nursing with a specialization in education from Walden University. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau and the National Association for Healthcare Quality.