Quality Insights | June 2021
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Joan's Monthly Message
Joan M. Coffman, FACHE
President and CEO
June 7 will mark an especially important day for the healthcare community on the Northshore, with the cutting of the ribbon on the new St. Tammany Cancer Center, a campus of Ochsner Medical.

May’s STQN bulletin
COVID vaccine now available to patients as young as 12
Following new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Louisiana Department of Health, St. Tammany Health System is now accepting COVID-19 vaccine appointments for children as young as 12 years old.

CMS awards five stars to St. Tammany Health System
St. Tammany Health System has achieved a five-star overall rating from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in its 2021 rankings, reflecting how well STHS performs treating heart attacks and pneumonia, readmission rates and safety of patient care.

The House That Nurses Built: Read the latest Heart to Heart
Spring has officially sprung on the Northshore, and so has the latest issue of Heart to Heart magazine, St. Tammany Health System’s quarterly publication covering all the things happening at the parish’s oldest hospital – and, brother, are things ever happening.

STHS infection prevention measures earn recognition
St. Tammany Health System’s Covington hospital is one of just 332 nationwide, nine in Louisiana and the only one in the New Orleans metro area to achieve a Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) rate of zero in recently released figures from Becker’s Hospital Review, publishing data compiled throughout 2019.

Important Dates
STQN Board of Directors
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