Statewide Meetings
For over ten years, physicians and surgeons, hospital leaders in cardiac care and quality improvement, and data experts from across Washington state have collaborated to improve cardiac revascularization care.
12th Annual Statewide Meeting
COAP would like to thank all the attendees who joined us for our 2008 Annual Statewide Meeting at the Hilton Airport & Conference Center. We are pleased to offer some selected materials and presentations for download:
- Keynote speaker, Helen Burstin, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President, Performance Measures, National Quality Forum spoke about "Strategic Issues in Performance Measurement - Moving Towards Outcomes."
- Program Director, Kristin Sitcov, provided a report on "COAP Audit Results and Progress" as the program works through its first ever round of fieldwork with all participating hospitals.
- Other presentations, including best practice information from Central Washington Hospital's Amy Berkompas on reducing "Door-to-Balloon Times," blood use during cardiac surgery and early extubation following cardiac surgery, as well as the 2007 COAP Dashboard report can now be viewed on the all-new COAP Forum. Click here to register...
Eleventh Annual Statewide Meeting
COAP would like to thank all the attendees who joined us for our 2007 Annual Statewide Meeting at the Hilton Airport & Conference Center. We are pleased to offer some selected materials and presentations for download:
Making Progress on Door-to-Balloon: Reports from Participating Hospitals
- St. Joseph Medical Center - Tacoma
Peggy Coltrin, Clinical Manager & Linda Dyson, Quality Improvement Specialist - Harrison Medical Center - Bremerton
Lauren Newcomer, RN, BSN, COAP Data Abstractor - Good Samaritan Hospital - Puyallup
Chris Rock, Trauma Program Manager - Swedish Medical Center
Tim Dewhurst, MD, FACC, Interventional Cardiologist - Southwest Washington Medical Center
Charles Cannan, MD, Cardiologist
COAP in 2007
Mary Gregg, MD, MHA, COAP Medical Director
The Next Frontiers for Quality Improvement
Eric D. Peterson, MD, MPH, Duke Clinical Research Institute
Tenth Annual Statewide Meeting
We are pleased to offer a selection of presentations and other materials from the Meeting:
- Blood Transfusion
John M. Harlan, MD, Associate Medical Director for Blood Services, Harborview Medical Center - Decreasing Door-to-Balloon Time
Christi McCarren, RN, Tacoma General Hospital
