Kathy Evans-Palmisano, Rn, Cnm, Ms, Cpt Email & Phone Number

Hawaii, United States

Moraga, California

The McCollum Foundation is dedicated to creating a better world. Our mission is to create world peace on a universal scale through promoting a meta-narrative which establishes everyone and everything as equally sacred and essential, all sentient and non-sentient beings as family, and all needs, dreams and desires being met by empowering individuals and organizations to live this narrative. We believe this can be achieved through fostering inter-faith understanding and cooperation, and ending religious discrimination, for all spiritualities offer wisdom. Therefore, all people of the world should be honored as brothers and sisters.One of the main aims of the Foundation is to empower youth across the world to become compassionate and pluralistic leaders of the future. We want to teach the children that they can live a life that will leave the world a better place than before they came into it. We are achieving this through education programs that allow the youth to understand their role in respecting people’s faith and honoring the earth, and by recognizing that everyone has value, everyone is serving a purpose, everyone supports the whole, and each one of us is a critical piece of the overall puzzle.The Foundation plans to expand training regarding pluralism to other governmental entities in the US and find ways to establish similar programs in other countries. The McCollum Foundation intends to continue Patrick’s direct work supporting those needing spiritual support and counsel, to show world leaders that when caught up in the greater work, we must never lose sight of what we are fighting for. We want to ensure that every voice is heard, every right is respected and every faith is honored.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

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The Ultimate Teen Challenge (UTC) is a fitness competition held annually at the Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio, the largest fitness expo in the world. The UTC encourages a fitness lifestyle and good sportsmanship in an atmosphere of healthy competition for trophies and scholarship monies.

Meets At First United Methodist Church Of Shadyside

SITE NITE (Spiritual, Intuitive & Telepathic Expansion) was the first organization to provide an opportunity to explore esoteric and metaphysical teaching in Pittsburgh. We offered presentations twice monthly and the comaraderie of a developing community of individuals seeking to explore their gifts and interests on topics ranging from: energy psychology, massage, meditation, herbs, nutrition, sustainability, resilience, music, and quantum theory, to astrology, mediumship, tarot, shamanism, and working with faeries! Our mission: We are a community of seekers expanding our spiritual, intuitive, and telepathic awareness. Together, we explore esoteric teachings in a safe and sacred manner. We provide an introduction to a variety of topics with resources for deeper exploration.

Provided hig-level individualized personal training and nutritional services to clients of PerFit, Personal Training.

Personal Training & Nutritional Counseling

Midwife Full-scope private CNM practice with four other CNMs in a non-profit corporation; clinical privileges at two area hospitals and home births; exceptional physician collaboration allowed for CNM co-management of high-risk pregnancies including multiple gestation and insulin-dependent gestational diabetes; gynecologic care through menopause including: HRT, endometrial biopsy

students and clinical observation site for Medical College of Pennsylvania Hahneman medical students.NOTEWORTHY FOR: Received American College of Nurse-Midwives "With women for a lifetime * Commendation."

Administratively responsible 24/7 for a newly developed freestanding birth center and full-scope nurse-midwifery practice doing 250 births per year with annual operating budget of $700,000; annual state licensure and national accreditation; credentialing of staff; contract negotiations with payers and subcontractors; construction, equipment and decoration of a new $500,000 facility; staff of 15 including 6 CNMs, 6 RN Clinical Coordinators, 1 office manager and 2 office support personnel; direct report to hospital vice president; liaison with affiliating hospital for Women's Health Task Force and future development of women's health center; development of satellite office, coordination of services with Division of Occupational Health for corporate outreach; clinical practice at 50%; member of medical staff in Dept. Of OB/Gyne and Quality management Team; development of practice guidelines and all documentation and tracking methodologies; ongoing quality improvement activities; marketing; clinical precepting of family practice residents; medical student lectures; and involvement in hospital wide community outreach programs.NOTEWORTHY FOR: In three years of operation, achieved greater client volume and reimbursement than previous birth center practice achieved in 14 years; with client satisfaction rating average of 1.04 (scale = 1 excellent * 4 poor); staff retention 80% of original with attrition due to relocation (1), career change (2

Administratively responsible for all aspects of full-scope midwifery practice and freestanding birth center with 200+ births per year, client base of 2,500, and outreach services including the Allegheny County Jail; supervised a staff of 6 CNM's, 8 RN Birth Assistants, 3 office support staff, and volunteers. NOTEWORTHY FOR: Collaboratively developed business plan to establish a new birth center and CNM practice; successfully negotiated the plan and employment contracts and moved the practice to the new site.

Full-scope private CNM practice in association with one other CNM and five physicians; based in a physician owned facility offering on-site ultrasound, mammography, outpatient surgery center, full scope assisted reproductive technologies center; three satellite offices and delivery privileges at three area hospitals; exceptional physician collaboration allowed for CNM co-management of high-risk pregnancies and gynecologic care through menopause including

Temporary position in a freestanding birth center providing full scope midwifery care to clients from all socioeconomic levels and outreach services at the Allegheny County Jail Annex; served as clinical preceptor for Community-based Nurse-Midwifery Education Program students.

Private practice sharing call with three OB/GYN physicians doing 300-350 deliveries per year; provided full scope midwifery care to normal and high-risk OB patients and gynecological care to essentially healthy women of all ages.

Twenty-four hour a day, seven-day week administrative responsibilities for full-scope hospital-based private CNM practice doing 300-400 deliveries per year; coordinated hiring, orientation, scheduling and continuing education of staff, budget and office organization; liaison between hospital, HMO and other facilities' administration and CNM staff; position was 50% administrative and 50% clinical; served as adjunct clinical instructor for the University of Illinois at Chicago Maternal-Child Health Department and sat on hospital Quality Assurance, Perinatal Loss, and Morbidity and Mortality Review Committees. NOTEWORTHY FOR: Expedited expansion of service from four to seven CNM's and three to five clinical sites; practice later received American College of Nurse- Midwives "With women, for a lifetime * Commendation."

MidwifeProvided independent obstetric care to essentially healthy women and their families in a hospital-based CNM practice; outstanding collaborative relationship with resident and attending physician back-up allowed for management of complicated pregnancies, including presentation of cases at Grand Rounds; deliveries occurred in a hospital-based birth center for low-risk, or traditional LDRs for high-risk patients, with early discharge and home follow-up.

MidwifeProvided prenatal care in the Comprehensive Adolescent Pregnancy Program and family planning services in a sliding scale clinic including: OC's, IUD's, diaphragms, contraceptive counseling and method follow-up.

Responsible for the perinatal education program including marketing, preparing, teaching and record keeping of: Prenatal, Breast feeding, Prepared Cesarean and Labor Preparation classes; plus labor, delivery and postpartum follow-up of students; also provided staff relief and staff development. NOTEWORTHY FOR: Class enrollment and attendance tripled during my tenure; Initiated New Parents and Grandparents classes; Still correspond with clients after 25+ years.

Labor and DeliveryProvided direct care to laboring, delivering and immediate postpartum patients and performed charge nurse duties on a busy unit in a Level II teaching hospital.

Pachakuti Mesa Tradition, Shamanism

Master Of Science, Maternal-Child Health/Nurse-Midwifery

Activities and Societies: Sigma Theta Tau (National Honor Nursing Society) American College of Nurse-Midwives Chamber Choir and Campus.

B.S.N., Nursing

Activities and Societies: Magna Cum Laude Sigma Theta Tau (National Nursing Honor Society) Varsity Volleyball Team (3 year letter.

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