Karen Komondor, RN, CCRN

Karen Komondor, RN, CCRN, is the Director of Education at St. Vincent Charity Medical Center, a 450 bed urban teaching hospital in the heart of downtown Cleveland, Ohio. As Director since 2003, she is responsible for all aspects of staff and program development and Patient Education.

Karen has more than 30 years experience as a Registered Nurse in a variety of roles including critical care staff nurse, fixed wing air transport nurse and critical care educator.

From her many years of experience with patients, she recognized the importance of Health Literacy’s relationship to patient care and was the first to coordinate a system-wide program that served to promote Health literacy awareness. Funded by the Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland, SVCMC began its Health Literacy Initiative in 2007 in collaboration with Project:Learn, Greater Cleveland’s premier adult literacy center. Since that time, Karen has led the initiative with a goal to promote Health Literacy across the continuum of patient care.

Karen received Project:Learn’s Individual Friend of Health Literacy Award in April, 2010.