Leah Mayelian RN, CEO/Founder
Initially trained in Trauma and Critical Care, Leah added to her expertise several travel surgical ICU contracts in the East and then to the West coast in the Kidney/Liver Transplant ICU at UCLA, Los Angeles, California. Over the next 15 years, she continued with different adult surgical ICUs. She settled at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Pediatric ICU for 12 years during which she was honored with the Daisy Award, recognized for extraordinary compassion to patients and families.
As the health care arena continued to change, she transferred to outpatient care and concurrently pursued a higher degree late in her career. She graduated Summa Cum Laude, working full time and with a growing family. The process along with more stressful work and life changes forced her to retreat and recharge. Taking over a year-long sabbatical, she processed within and then renewed her mission to heal. She was introduced to practicing alternative therapies to help to give alternative injection treatments. She continues to explore alternative health and functional nutrition while working home health care. With her overall experience, she became Director of Nursing Services for home health and palliative care agencies and continues to do home visits.
First-generation Filipina born in Chicago, Illinois, her parents were nurses with the desire for better opportunities and among the importation of foreign nurses in the 1960s. She is the oldest of four children. Not particularly interested to follow her parents’ footsteps, her high school aptitude revealed exactly fifty percent in science and in art. A nursing shortage arose at the time she finished and contributed to solving the conflict for career choice. She obtained her nursing degree at 20 years old. She enjoys and continues to play the piano, dance, crafting, and painting. She is married to her husband, Fred, with two girls Makayla 15, and Maranda 13, and a son Marcello 10. They are living in Santa Clarita, California.