Title: Director of Women and Children Services

Company: San Gabriel Valley Medical Center

Location: Pomona, Calif.

Garnering 54 years in the health care industry, Aurlene Andrews continues as director of women and children services at San Gabriel Valley Medical Center. At the nonprofit acute care hospital, she helps provide fluid human services operations a variety of other departments can all work in conjunction. Ms. Andrews attributes her success to keeping abreast of changes in her field through her membership with the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses.

Throughout her work-week, Ms. Andrews provides care to those experiencing postpartum depression, labor and delivery, and child health and maternal services. She also handles compliance to ensure quality, budgeting, coordinating staff, and chartering audits for perinatal and intensive care units. In 1958, Ms. Andres graduated from the St. Francis Medical Center in San Francisco with a diploma in nursing.