Merriann Kelley-DeTeso, director of implementations for National Healing Corporation, is responsible for assuring clinical excellence, management best practices, consistency of services, and fiscal accountability at new NHC wound healing centers across the country.

During her employment with National Healing Corporation, Kelley-DeTeso has help positions as program director and clinical nurse manager of the National Healing Wound Center at Anna Jaques Hospital in Newburyport, Mass.

Kelley-DeTeso was named National Healing’s Clinical Manager of the Year in 2002 and her center received several other awards during her tenure, including Best Overall Outcomes in 2007 and 2008.

Kelley-DeTeso has worked in wound care for nearly 10 years. Prior to NHC, she worked as a case manager and patient educator in the wound center at Columbia Portsmouth Hospital in N.H. She began her career in healthcare as an asthma educator and was a registered nurse at Lamprey Health Care in New Hampshire.

Licensed in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, Kelley-DeTeso is a member of Sigma Theta Tau and the New Hampshire Nurses Association. Before becoming a nurse, she worked as an elementary school teacher in the Department of Defense schools in Garstdt, Germany.

Kelley-DeTeso earned bachelor’s degrees in nursing and in liberal arts from the University of New Hampshire.