Vickie Dove

Clinical Consultant

Vickie Dove is a Clinical Consultant specializing in

Perioperative Services for CHC. In this role, she handles Perioperative Operational Assessments including evaluating and improving the surgical service line in such areas as management operations, regulatory compliance, employee performance, surgeon success and patient satisfaction. She analyzes turnover rate, supply availability and processing, productivity, infection control, employee morale, education and training, scheduling, surgical staff competency, patient

wait times and discharge processes. She has also served in several interim CNO roles for CH Consulting clients. Vickie brings more than 30 years of clinical and nursing experience to CHC.

Vickie’s work at CHC builds on accomplishments in previous roles, including Chief Nursing Officer and Director of Surgical Services at Mary Black Memorial Hospital in Spartanburg, SC, where she decreased the nursing vacancy rate from 10 percent to 4 percent and eliminated the hospital’s reliance on nursing agencies.

Vickie received an Associate of Applied Science degree from the University of Kentucky in Maysville and also completed coursework toward a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree and an MBA at Bellarmine College in Louisville, KY, and the University of South Carolina, respectively.

Vickie’s community and professional organization participation has included the Association of Perioperative Nurses, the board of ReGenesis Community Health Center in Spartanburg and the investigative review board for the South Carolina Board of Nurses.