For Healthcare

Hospitals, Medical Practices, Healthcare Systems, Emergency Responders

We work on projects to improve care for people at risk for developing heart disease or stroke and those who actually have heart disease or stroke.
 
We bring community stakeholders together and look at gaps in care to find ways for people to receive the best care possible from medical care in the community to emergency care, hospital care, and rehabilitation.

• Emergency Cardiac and Stroke Response: To get heart attack and stroke patients to the right place in time to receive optimal care, we are working in partnership with the Office of Community Health Systems  and the Emergency Cardiac and Stroke Technical Advisory Committee.

• Washington State Collaborative to Improve Health: A quality improvement initiative for medical practices.

• Get With the Guidelines^SM : The program partners with the American Heart/American Stroke Associations to promote hospital participation in Get With The Guidelines^SM, a hospital-based quality improvement program developed by the Heart Association.

• Rehabilitation: A project to increase patient participation in cardiac and stroke rehabilitation with initial work to identify current rehabilitation resources, identify gaps, and find potential solutions.

• Provider Recognition: The Washington State Collaborative to Improve Health encourages clinics to seek National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) recognition.

For more information about our work with emergency responders, contact Kim Kelley.
For more information about our work in hospitals, medical practices, healthcare systems, and rehabilitation, contact Colette Rush.