Kelly Guzman

Kelly Guzman, RN, MN has been affiliated with NAHN since 1996 and has served on the board of LA-NAHN in various roles including past president. She is a board member and the chair of the Legislative/Public Relations and Media Committee. In addition to her work with LA-NAHN, she serves as the Co-Chair of the Multicultural Committee for the School of Nursing at UCLA. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau and the Nurse Leadership Council of Southern California.

Kelly has been an RN for 19 years in Los Angeles. She received her ADN degree from Rio Hondo College, BSN from Pacific Union College and her MN from UCLA. She has worked as a bedside nurse in Pediatrics, PICU and the Emergency Department. She serves as a clinical faculty preceptor at UCLA School of Nursing for graduate nursing students who are interested in healthcare administration. She has spent the majority of her career in acute care hospital management at White Memorial Medical Center and UCLA medical center in a variety of positions including: Peds/PICU Supervisor, Director of ED, Med/Surg, Rehab, SNF and Sub-Acute Departments, Clinical Director of Ambulatory and Interventional Services and Director of Transition Planning. Currently she is the Executive Director of Transition Planning at HTS (Healthcare Technical Services), a Los Angeles based healthcare consulting firm.

Kelly is a proud member of a healthcare family. Her mom is a respiratory therapist who encouraged her and her sister to become nurses. Her sister, Lynn Aguilera (NAHN member) is a pediatric RN Educator at Whittier Presbyterian Hospital and recently received her BSN from the University of Phoenix and is pursuing her Masters Degree. Her niece Erica, has just been accepted to nursing school at St. Scholastica's in Minnesota. So the healthcare tradition will continue!