Angel Coaston

Angela Coaston, PhD, RN, has been a Registered Nurse for over 30 years with an expertise in in-patient, community-based and faith-based care. She has served in several capacities including leadership development, strategic partnerships, operations, management, training, grant writing and grant management. She is active in the community and is highly motivated and passionate to improve and foster change within health care systems, faith communities and communities at large. Angela is currently Angela is currently the Executive Director of Clinical Affiliations and Academic Operations at Cal Baptist University School of Nursing.

Angela started her career as a Pediatric Nurse. After a year she launched into, Emergency nursing and Pediatric Emergency Nursing. In the Emergency Room, Angela began her professional development in leadership. She has had extensive training in leadership communication, management, and team building. She has a Master of Science in nursing degree/Family Nurse Practitioner education from Western University of Health Sciences.
She is Public Health Nurse Certified and School Nurse Credentialed.

As the Consultant and former CEO/Executive Director of the Well of Healing Mobile Medical Clinic she leads a team of volunteers providing free primary care services to the homeless, uninsured and uninsured in San Bernardino County. Her volunteer leadership role has supported and encouraged faith communities to engage congregates to serve their local community with purpose and intention. She has developed partnerships with universities and health systems creating a professional and future health care workforce pool of volunteers for the Free Mobile Health Clinic.

Angela was the Director of Transitional Care Management and the Manager of Community Health Development
at Loma Linda University Medical Center. Her role as Director and Manager is to plan, develop and implement innovations that will bridge the gap in the care continuum across the health care system. She led the efforts for designing Loma Linda University Medical Center’s Transitional Care and bundled payment initiative creating a new service of care for high risk patients, information technology enhancement and electronic health record integration within the system and into the community where the patient lives.