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Mary Rossi-Coajou
CDR Mary Rossi-Coajou serves
as a Senior Nurse Consultant at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
(CMS), Office of Clinical Standards and Quality. She holds a Baccalaureate
degree in Science and Nursing from the State University of New York at
Brockport and a Masters degree in Community Health. CDR Rossi-Coajou began her
Federal service in 1989 at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda Maryland. She has worked in the areas of occupational health,
clinical staff nursing, nurse manager, and nurse consultant. She is currently
employed at CMS, Baltimore office as an analyst for the hospice program, where
she is responsible for writing the Conditions of Participation for hospice
agencies and the additional assignment of assistant analyst on the home health
team.
For the past 16 years, CDR
Rossi-Coajou has served as a Commissioned Officer in the United States Public
Health Service (USPHS). She has served on several humanitarian deployments such
as Operation Refugee at Fort Dix in 1998, Ground Zero and Anthrax in 2001, Reagan’s
funeral in 2004, Inauguration in 2005, hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the “State
of the Union Address 2006. CDR Rossi-Coajou has held several leadership roles
within the USPHS, such as Chairperson on Readiness, Executive Secretary for the
Nursing Professional Advisory Committee, CMS agency representative for the
Nursing Professional Advisory Committee, President of the Commissioned Officers
Association, Fort Detrick Branch and most recently appointed as the readiness
coordinator for CMS. |