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Joan's Monthly Message
Joan M. Coffman, FACHE
President and CEO
Together we are making a difference! Your role as a quality network member is part of our success in improving quality, safety and service for our patients at St. Tammany Health System.
The St. Tammany Quality Network (STQN) presented its 2021 second-quarter Medical Director’s Award to Dr. Angela Buonagura for assisting in the continued development of the comprehensive breast cancer program at St. Tammany Health System (STHS).
It’s time for fun, sun – and those screenings you’ve been putting off
With COVID seemingly on the wane, it’s time for vaccinated people to get back to the beach. It’s time for them to get back to summertime gatherings with their family. It’s time to get back to enjoying the company of one another.
St. Tammany Health System has been awarded the American College of Cardiology’s NCDR Chest Pain ̶ MI Registry Silver Performance Achievement Award for 2021. It is one of only 132 hospitals nationwide to receive the honor.
While COVID-19 hospitalizations remain at manageable levels on the Northshore, St. Tammany Health System leaders have noticed a troubling new trend among the COVID-19 inpatient population at their Covington hospital: a marked increase in the hospitalization of otherwise healthy people between the ages of 30 and 45 who have not been vaccinated.
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