{"id":453853,"date":"2026-09-04T23:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T23:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/453853\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T23:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T23:14:09","slug":"2026-change-maker-honoree-maryann-lansangan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/453853\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Change Maker honoree: Maryann Lansangan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Sacramento Bee and Nehemiah Leaders Programs are celebrating this year’s 60 Change Makers. Join them at our gala at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 13 at the Grand Sheraton in downtown Sacramento. Buy tickets at sacramentochangemakers.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Maryann Lansangan oversees the largest workforce at Mercy San Juan Medical Center. Her charge, as chief nursing executive officer, is to ensure nurses and patients are treated safely and with compassion.<\/p>\n

Or, in her words, \u201ctake care of the people who take care of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lansangan spent decades doing the work she now oversees \u2014 first in the Philippines, where she grew up, then in Missouri, Kansas, Illinois and California.<\/p>\n

She came to the U.S. in 1994, after picking Kansas City, Missouri, from a list of U.S. cities that were recruiting nurses through a staffing agency. She only expected, as a 24-year-old, to stay in the U.S. for a couple of years.<\/p>\n

\"Maryann Maryann Lansangan, a transformational nurse executive, poses for a portrait after being recognized as one of this year’s Change Makers on Saturday, July 11, 2026. JOS\u00c9 LUIS VILLEGAS jvillegas@sacbee.com <\/p>\n

She worked at hospitals in Kansas and Illinois before moving to California, where she worked in a number of cities before ultimately being recruited to the hospital in Carmichael.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a better person, I\u2019m a better friend, better mother \u2014 because I\u2019m a nurse, because of what I see. Every time you come to work, and you are in front of patients at their most vulnerable\u2026 it makes you just a better human being, I believe. Kinder, more patient, more forgiving,\u201d Lansangan said. \u201cAnd nurses are the best people. They\u2019re the funniest. They have the best sense of humor. They have the resilience.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Annika Merrilees is a business reporter for The Sacramento Bee. She previously spent five years covering business and healthcare for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sacramento Bee and Nehemiah Leaders Programs are celebrating this year’s 60 Change Makers. Join them at our…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-453853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}