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Magnet® Recognition

For more than two decades, our company has been the #1 trusted provider of Magnet® consultative services. Our nursing excellence consultants bring over 75 years of combined firsthand experience as successful Magnet® Program Directors and key stakeholders who understand exactly what it takes to become the kind of organization the ANCC is proud to recognize.

As the leaders of Magnet® consulting, we specialize in navigating the inner workings of this complex, multiyear journey. We provide the comprehensive, expert support organizations need to achieve Magnet® designation or re-designation with confidence.

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Why Choose CHCM for your Nursing Excellence Journey?

overall averages for all categories*

As of 01/01/26

75+

Years of combined ANCC designation and re-designation experience between our Cultures of Excellence (CoE) expert consultants

100%

Of our Cultures of Excellence (CoE) consultants have led and helped multiple successful Nursing Excellence Journeys

94%

Of our Cultures of Excellence (CoE) clients are repeat or referred clients

100+

Organizations have used the Cultures of Excellence (CoE) team for their Nursing Excellence Journey

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Ensure a Successful Magnet® Designation

Our expert nursing excellence consultants have over 75 years of experience in Magnet® designation and re-designation. We work with large academic medical systems, community hospitals, rural access hospitals, specialty providers including pediatrics, orthopedic, women, rehabilitation, and cancer centers, as well as international organizations.

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The People Behind Your Success

When you partner with CHCM, you’re not partnering with a faceless organization. You’re working directly with one of our expert consultants. They each spent years working as nursing professionals and leaders, so you know you’re getting the best of the best. You can lean on our team and our decades of experience in healthcare consulting, helping organizations like yours achieve excellence and improve patient outcomes.

Chief Executive Officer and Consultant

With more than 30 years of Healthcare Consulting experience, Gen has a 100% Magnet® Designation Success Rate, is a PTAP® Designation Expert, and is the CEO of CHCM.

Gen Guanci

MEd, CAGS OD, RN, NPD-BC, CCRN

Chief Executive Officer and Consultant

Service Line Director and Consultant

Nationally recognized leader in nursing professional governance and organizational excellence with 25+ Years of Experience. Marky serves as the Service Line Director for our Nursing Excellence programs and has been a consultant with CHCM for 11+ years.

Marky Medeiros

MSN, BN

Service Line Director and Consultant

Nursing Excellence Expert and Consultant

With over 25+ Years of Diverse Health Care Experience, Amber partners with organizations to design and sustain environments where excellence thrives. Using a relationship-centered, evidence-based approach, she helps organizations build structures and processes that elevate performance, empower professionals, and drive measurable, lasting outcomes.

Amber Orton

MBA, MSN, RN, NE-BC

Nursing Excellence Expert and Consultant

Nursing Excellence Expert and Consultant

With 30+ Years of experience in a large health system, she has guided many organizations on their Magnet® and Pathway to Excellence® journeys with thoughtful, individualized approaches. Ruth is an expert in shared/professional governance, helping organizations build councils and committees with clear roles, defined goals, and the ability to drive results.

Ruth Kitzmiller

MSA, BSN, RN, NE-BC

Nursing Excellence Expert and Consultant

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Magnet® Consulting Services

We are experts in the inner workings of this complex, multiyear journey and offer fully customized Magnet® consulting services designed to meet your organization’s unique goals, challenges, timeline, and level of support needed. Whether you need guidance through every phase of the journey or targeted expertise in specific areas, our solutions are tailored to help you achieve Magnet® designation or re-designation with confidence.

Comprehensive Magnet® Journey Support

Full-spectrum support including structure and process development, DDCT® mentoring, document review and set-up, as well as site visit preparation with mock site visits.

Readiness Assessment (Gap Analysis)

Ground your planning and implementation with this comprehensive organizational assessment.

Re-designation Vulnerabilities Assessment

Discover where you are in relation to the current ANCC Magnet requirements and uncover your vulnerabilities.

Shared/ Professional Governance Support

Create or enhance the infrastructure of your shared/ professional governance.

Professional Practice Model Framework and Care Delivery System Design

Maximize staff engagement and their ability to articulate how it drives practice. Increase the impact of your care delivery model with a framework that supports your organization’s vision.

Professional Advancement Programs (Clinical Ladders)

Foster advanced professional nursing performance, excellence in nursing practice, support professional growth, and increase nurse retention. Create a framework that benefits the individual and the organization.

Peer Review and Feedback

Develop systems that enhance professional performance.

Data Management to Drive Practice

Leverage nurse-sensitive data that is meaningful to those who can change practice—staff at the bedside.

Magnet Program Director (MPD) Coaching/Mentoring

We support and mentor MPDs regardless of their level of experience. We also offer a virtual course, "Facilitating the Journey to Excellence: Program Director Core Competencies™" for Magnet® Program Directors.

Why CHCM?

For more than two decades, organizations across the U.S. and internationally have trusted CHCM for Magnet® expertise. Known as the “go-to” partner for complex Magnet® journeys, we help organizations move from measurement to meaningful excellence.

Testimonials

Transforming Healthcare Through Trusted Partnerships

Engaging external Magnet® consultants throughout our journey proved to be a pivotal decision. The expertise and structured guidance provided to us brought focus and reassurance to a process that can otherwise feel complex. From the outset, our consultant was readily available to navigate both strategic considerations and operational nuances, establishing a level of trust that felt collaborative. What distinguished the experience was the authenticity of the collaboration. Receiving steady counsel with a depth of experience and thoughtful guidance was foundational to our preparedness and ultimate success.
Magnet® Program Director
Partnering with external Magnet® experts during our journey was truly transformative. The consultation support we received [from CHCM] brought clarity, confidence, and calm to what can easily become an overwhelming process. From the start, our consultant was available to walk through big and small details. Her accessibility quickly created a relationship that felt more like a trusted partnership than a traditional engagement.
Health Care Leader
I highly recommend CHCM as an organization that is full service including leadership development, nursing excellence, competency, Shared Governance and Magnet. consultants are excellent.
CNO Emeritus
During the Magnet® process, their [CHCM] organization supported our needs. Our consultant was an expert in this area and was extremely responsive when contacted. CHCM wasn’t just a company; they were a partner in the process that was as invested in our organization’s success as if they were the organization going through it.
CNO Emeritus

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