Center of Hope, Program Manager
Eskenazi Health
Rebecca Navarro has been a registered nurse for twenty-four years, and is the current program manager for the Center of Hope at Eskenazi Health. She coordinates the forensic nursing program which provides medical, forensic, and crisis intervention services for primary and secondary victims of violence at Eskenazi Health’s Level One Trauma Center. Mrs. Navarro received her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Purdue University and her master’s degree in nursing as a clinical nurse specialist from Indiana University. Rebecca has been certified by the Forensic Nursing Certification Board as a sexual assault nurse examiner for adolescents and adults (SANE-A) since 2003, and by the Board of Certification of Emergency Nurses as a Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN) since 2007.
She is the recipient of the 2004 Outstanding Medical Professional of the Year Award from the Indiana Coalition Against Sexual Assault, and the Health Care Hero Award from the Indianapolis Business Journal in 2008.