Daphne Hodges, MSN, RN, CWOCN

Community Memorial Health System

Coordinator of the Inpatient Wound and Ostomy Program

Daphne is a Certified Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurse with 23 years of nursing experience in a variety of clinical settings including community hospitals, post-acute care, outpatient wound clinics, home health, industry and a large teaching institution. Her nursing career began in Emergency Medicine, however her passion for wound and ostomy care motivated her successful graduation from Cleveland Clinic as a certified Enterostomal Therapist in 2004. She has now been a board certified Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurse for 20 years. Daphne holds the position of Program Chair for the Ostomy Association of Ventura County affiliate of the United Ostomy Association of America and runs a Free Ostomy Clinic out of Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura,CA where she is also the Coordinator of the Inpatient Wound and Ostomy Program. She is an active member of the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses’ Society and currently serves on the National Conference Planning Committee of the WOCN.