SAWC Fall 2026 | October 15-18
Beatriz Coccaro-Word is the Chief Executive Officer and founder of a mobile outpatient wound care company in Florida. She completed her initial training as a Registered Nurse in 1993 and became board-certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) as an adult nurse practitioner and by the American Board of Wound Management as a certified wound specialist (CWS) in 1999. With over twenty years of clinical experience in wound healing, she remains current with the latest evidence-based treatments and pursues excellence in education, completing a Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree in 2020. She delivers compassionate, personalized, effective care that focuses on improving patient outcomes and exercising a multidisciplinary team approach while offering evidence-based treatments emphasizing value-based care. As a result, Beatriz brings to every patient a robust clinical knowledge coupled with a holistic nursing approach that not only focuses on the wound itself but on the entire individual while considering other important aspects of the patient’s life such as the family, home, work environment, and social issues.