DNP, MS, RN, NEA-BC
Chief Nurse Executive, Santa Clara Medical Center
Stacy Alves DNP, MS, RN, NEA-BC is the Chief Nurse Executive at Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center. She has twelve years of progressive leadership experience in professional development, nursing informatics, and clinical operations.
Her passion for leading teams and developing others has yielded several accomplishments including 13 straight Leapfrog A ratings, recognition as a Healthgrades Top 50 hospital and Top 50 hospital for cardiac surgery, leading surge workforce development, and launching a nursing professional governance structure during the pandemic.
Stacy is a member of the Association of California Nurse Leaders (ACNL) Healthy Workforce Committee. She is a certified Improvement Advisor and Heart Math instructor. In 2019, she was the first recipient of the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Regional Extraordinary Nurse Award for Transformational Leadership.
Stacy earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice in executive leadership from University of San Francisco and her Masters in Nursing Science and Healthcare Leadership from The Betty Irene More School of Nursing at UC Davis where she studied women’s childbirth experiences in Angola Africa. As a result of this experience, she developed a deep appreciation for the importance of establishing trusting and caring relationships with patients and families.