Improving Quality
and Financial Results

primaris flame Patricia A. Wyatt, RN

President and CEO
Swope Ridge Geriatric Center of Kansas City

Wyatt is the president and CEO of Swope Ridge Geriatric Center of Kansas City, one of the largest Medicaid/Medicare geriatric centers in Missouri. As a registered nurse, she has worked in intensive cardiac care nursing, health care planning and mental health care. In addition, Wyatt has 20 years of experience with a major hotel chain in sales management and public relations, and has served as a volunteer on numerous civic and social organizations. These include the boards of the Greater Kansas City Heart of America United Way, Center for Management Assistance and the Kansas City Community Development Corporation.

Wyatt is currently on the boards for Research Hospital, the Research School of Nursing, Primaris, the Visiting Nurses Association and, formerly, the American Stroke Foundation. She formerly served as an elected member of the Missouri Health Care Association. She has also held a presidential appointment for three years in Washington D.C. with the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services.