Emily Cribb, MBA, MSN, RN, CEN, serves as the Corporate Service Line Director of Emergency Services at Cape Fear Valley Health, where she oversees nursing operations and provides leadership across the health system’s Emergency Departments. She has 17 years of nursing experience, including 14 years at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, and has spent her entire nursing career in emergency care. Her experience at the bedside and in leadership has given her firsthand insight into how the emergency care needs of the community have grown and changed over time. Her work focuses on improving access to timely care, enhancing the patient and family experience, supporting the teams who provide care, and ensuring Cape Fear Valley’s Emergency Departments are prepared to meet the needs of the communities they serve. As emergency care continues to grow, expansion is about more than additional space, it is about having the capacity, resources, and people needed to care for patients when they need it most. She holds a Master of Science in Nursing in Nursing Leadership and Management and a Master of Business Administration in Healthcare Administration and is currently pursuing her Doctor of Nursing Practice in Nursing Leadership at East Carolina University. After nearly two decades in emergency nursing, she remains focused on the same thing that first drew her to the field: caring for patients and supporting the teams who care for them.