STQN Members Quality Insights for August 2021

Quality Insights | August 2021

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Partners in Care

Joan M. Coffman, FACHE

President and CEO

You know from your experience working with us, patients always come first at St. Tammany Health System. We work hard to stay on the forefront of innovation, studying new technologies for their value to our community, listening to you and acquiring new equipment as our community physicians show us the value of those investments.

STQN Bulletin for August

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STQN Headlines

COVID surge prompts reopening of STHS test collection site

STHS Community Health Coordinator Anne Pablovich recently visited The Lake 94.7-FM to talk about the Be Well Bus and to urge listeners to schedule those preventative health screenings they might have put on hold during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A new digital home

You’ve seen our new patient tower, but that’s not the only construction job going on around here. Behind the scenes, a team of techies has been building out STQN's new digital home, in the form of a new website -- check it out!

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U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise visits STHS, applauds frontline COVID workers

U.S. Representative and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise toured St. Tammany Health System’s Covington hospital on Friday (July 16, 2021), making a point to visit with and acknowledge the work of its front-line COVID team and vowing to put his legislative weight behind the health system’s community outreach initiatives..

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Talking COVID, variants, vaccines and what comes next

There’s talk of the nasty new Delta variant. There’s talk of vaccine side effects. There’s talk of what things are going to look like this fall – and whether we’ve got another outbreak ahead of us. No matter how badly we want to move on, the pandemic isn’t over yet..

STHS’s Dr. Mike Hill named a CityBusiness Health Care Hero

Important STQN Dates

August 3 | 5:30 pm

STQN Board Meeting

August 10 | 5:30 pm

STQN CME: Precision Medicine Update

Marc Matrana, MD

August 17 | 5:30 pm

STQN Finance and Contracting

August 26 | 5:30 pm

STQN CME: Breast Surgery / Oncology

Angela Buonagura, MD

RSVP to Sarah Gallaher via email or direct dial (985) 898-4052 for CME opportunities above.

2021 CME Lecture Series

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