Patti graduated from Radford University in Virginia in 1988 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing. She has over 18 years of experience as a Registered Nurse in Labor Delivery, Medical ICU and Neurosurgical ICU. She spent two years working as a hospital case manager and six years working as a Nursing Supervisor in a Level I Trauma Hospital. She left the hospital setting to begin working in the Workers’ Comp field as a Nurse Case Manager and became a Certified Case Manager in 2015. She raised four children as a single mom and has three granddaughters who are the light of her life. She enjoys spending time with family as well as gardening, reading and traveling.