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Barbara Jacobs


Barbara Jacobs, RN, MSN retired in 2022 after 45 years in nursing and 7 years in her position as VP/CNO of Nursing at Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center.  Prior to working at Anne Arundel, she also was Chief Nursing Officer at Suburban Hospital/Johns Hopkins Medicine for 5 years.  In addition, she was the Director of Critical Care at George Washington University Hospital for 18 years and she worked many years in critical care in Philadelphia and New Jersey.  She graduated from the University of Rochester with her BSN and obtained her MSN from George Washington University.  She was a past president of Maryland Organization of Nurse Leaders and was co lead of the Beryl Institute's Nurse Executive Committee and has been an advisor to the Nursing Leadership Institute for many years.  She currently is on the Board of Directors of Meritus Medical Center.