Director of Nursing/Clinical AdministratorOkyanos Center for Regenerative MedicineFebruary 2012 – December 2019Gretchen Dezelick, RN, LHCRM, CASC was the Director of Nursing and Clinical Administrator at Okyanos Center of Regenerative Medicine. Based in Freeport, Grand Bahama, The Bahamas. Okyanos brought a new option, standard of care and quality of life to patients with chronic diseases, utilizing an EU-approved cell processing devices. Okyanos closed its doors to business in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas. •More than 35 years nursing experience in acute hospital critical care, peri-operative and ambulatory surgery center bedside and administrative positions•Certifications have included CCRN (Critical Care Registered Nurse), CNOR (Certified Peri-Operative Nurse), LHCRM (Licensed Healthcare Risk Management) and current CASC (Certified Ambulatory Surgery Center Administrator)•Experienced in US hospital (JCAHO), US ambulatory surgery center (AAAHC) and Bahamas National Stem Cell Committee (NSEC) Standards of Practice and Accreditation SurveysGretchen Dezelick, RN, BSN, CNOR, LHCRM, CASC earned her diploma nursing degree from St. Joseph Hospital School of Nursing in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She spent the first 12 years of her career in bedside and administrative positions in a combined 30- bed medical and surgical intensive care unit at Lancaster General Hospital specializing in coronary care and open -heart surgery. She then relocated to Florence, South Carolina to take a position as Director of Nursing for a 15- bed surgical intensive care unit at McLeod Regional Medical Center in Florence, South Carolina that specialized in open heart surgery and neurosurgical specialties. After 4 years in South Carolina, Gretchen relocated to Sarasota, Florida where she worked in open heart recovery and as a circulating nurse in a 6- room cardiac catheterization lab. In 2002, Gretchen left the large non-profit hospital systems to move to Tampa, Florida where she accepted a position as an operating room circulating nurse in an ambulatory surgery center, Laser Spine Institute. She quickly advanced from circulating nurse to the ambulatory surgery center’s Director of Nursing and on into Ambulatory Surgery Center Administration as the Patient Safety Officer and Licensed Health Care Risk Manager. In 2012, Okyanos Center for Regenerative Medicine recruited Gretchen to assist in the program development and to oversee the clinical operations of their new stem cell therapy surgery center in Freeport, Grand Bahama.