National Senior Director of Rural Health Care Quality
American Heart Association
Mindy Cook is the National Senior Director of Rural Health Care Quality for the American Heart Association Quality, Outcomes, Research, & Analytics Team. Mindy leads the Association’s Rural Health Care Outcomes Accelerator initiative to support evidence-based care in the rural setting through optimization of outcomes for cardiovascular & stroke patients. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and practiced clinically in the areas of critical care, cardiac catheterization, and cardiac network coordination for 12 years prior to joining the Association. During her 12-year tenure at the Association, she has led various statewide and regional initiatives in primarily rural states to optimize quality and systems of care coordination that have yielded a lasting improvement in care coordination and patient outcomes. She is passionate about the Rural Accelerator’s opportunity to expand this model to rural hospitals across the nation through participation in the Association’s Get With The Guidelines® Stroke, CAD, and Heart Failure Programs, learning collaboratives, rural community network, and quality research publications. Mindy has a strong passion for rural health care fueled by growing up on a ranch in North Dakota where the nearest health care services were provided by a critical access hospital. She now resides in rural Minnesota where in her free time, she enjoys life on the farm and performance horse competition.
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Perspectives on Rural Healthcare Quality, Equity and Collaboration (79H)
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
2:00pm – 3:00pm CT