Vanessa Segovia is the founder of Healthy Outcomes for Children, Registered Nursing, PC, which aims to support healthcare organizations in optimizing clinical workflows to maximize operational efficiency, service delivery, and patient outcomes. A clinician with 15+ years of public health experience in maternal-child health and pediatrics, with a specialty in childhood lead poisoning prevention, Vanessa offers expert quality improvement solutions, provider training, and healthcare consulting alongside specialized health content development. Throughout her career, she has collaborated extensively with families, clinical teams, and government agencies to protect and optimize patient health outcomes. 

Most recently, she led a series of quality improvement initiatives within a large-scale, multi-level county health system. She collaborated with medical directors and Epic analysts to design a county-wide EHR referral system and an Express Lane lab order set for public health nurses to independently initiate lab orders during critical windows. She assisted physicians in optimizing their lead toxicity workflow within Epic as well as designed and executed the first electronic charting system and a new evidence-based training module for a public health program. Notably, when a team of pediatricians sought to increase lead screening rates by piloting an in-office point-of-care specimen collection, she provided vital compliance intervention—guiding clinicians away from non-compliant collection methods and connecting them directly with the state health department medical officer and public health networks to support approved testing models and best practices. This comprehensive approach enhanced collaborative efforts for continuous patient monitoring, protected regulatory compliance, improved diagnostic accuracy, and transformed siloed processes into sustained, seamless, interdisciplinary systems. 

Vanessa’s extensive clinical background is complemented with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing, enhancing her research and communication skills. This unique cross-disciplinary expertise enables her to efficiently conduct record analysis, evaluate regulatory compliance, and develop standard operating procedures and clinical training modules. Her commitment to quality improvement solutions ensures health information is transmitted safely and efficiently— accelerating turnaround times, enhancing delivery systems, and elevating the patient care experience. Most importantly, her role allows her to cultivate client-centered care models, ultimately fostering optimal health, preventing disease, and promoting community well-being. 

In addition, she is a Certified Functional Nutrition Informed Professional. She believes that health is achieved through a holistic lens that includes lifestyle, diet, and nutrition; this view is reflected in the patient education materials found in the portfolio section.  

EDUCATION

Hamline University, Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults 

Arizona State University, Bachelor of Science in Nursing 

University of California, Berkeley, Bachelor of Arts in Sociology 

LICENSES & CERTIFICATIONS

Registered Nurse (RN)- California Board of Registered Nursing

Public Health Nurse (PHN)- California Board of Registered Nursing 

Certified Functional Nutrition Informed Professional (CFNIP)

State of California Small Business Certification