Heather Morton has been named the National Director of Nursing Operations for ClearSky Health, a premier provider of rehabilitative healthcare services. In this role, Morton will oversee nursing practices, staffing, and quality care standards across the organization’s medical rehabilitation hospitals, ensuring consistent and effective patient care delivery.
Morton has more than 13 years of clinical, operational, and nursing experience in acute, rehabilitative, and long-term care settings. Prior to her role at ClearSky Health, she served as the Director of Nursing Operations for a Level II trauma center, providing multi-departmental oversight of productivity, quality, and safety metrics for about 400 nursing staff. Before that, she served as the Chief Nursing Officer for both a medical rehabilitation and long-term acute care hospital, supervising more than 150 employees and ensuring adequate staffing and patient ratios.
“I’m truly passionate about being part of an organization that puts the patient at the center of everything,” Morton says. “Our hospital teams are compassionate and skilled at delivering best-in-class quality care to the communities we serve. I’m so proud to be part of the collaboration and consistent desire to get our patients to their highest level of function and improve their quality of life.”
Morton earned a bachelor’s degree in humanities and fine arts and a master’s degree in health services administration from the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyo. She earned an associate’s degree of nursing from Brevard Community College in Palm Bay, Fla., and a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Fla.
