Jennifer Burnette, MBA, RN, BSN,  joined the Beckley VA Medical Center as the Associate Director for Patient Care/Nurse Executive in August 2022.

Jennifer Burnette is a Registered Nurse with a Bachelors Degree in Nursing from East Tennessee State University and a Master’s in Business Administration from King College.

Ms. Burnette joins Beckley VA Medical Center from the Mountain Home VA Medical Center where she has been Chief Nurse of Patient Care Services and Deputy Associate Director of Patient Care Services since November 2017.  She comes to Beckley with a keen eye for high reliability concepts and merging patient safety and risk management together so as to provide for a Veteran-centric experience for patients.  Ms. Burnette is accustomed to communicating and interacting with a variety of healthcare professionals.  She has demonstrated ability to streamline process design to create more efficiency.  She handles multiple responsibilities while maintaining high standards of nursing excellence and has the ability to think logically in complex and very stressful situations.  

Ms. Burnette has some interesting leisure time activities, including riding motorcycles with her husband.  She brings a lot of positive energy to the work environment and will be a welcome addition to our Executive Leadership team.