A Cardiac Surgery Data Manager meeting will be held on December 8, 2011 at UMass Memorial Medical Center.

Additional details can be found on the community forum at
http://www.massdac.org/forum_community/

A Cardiac Surgery Data Manager meeting will be held on September 20, 2011 at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, MA. More details to follow.

Additional details can be found on the community forum at
http://www.massdac.org/forum_community/

2007-2008 Hospital & Surgeon Report (full report). This report is a public disclosure of the quality of care provided by hospitals and surgeons performing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery in California during 2007 and 2008. It is the sixth heart bypass surgery report developed by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) covering all of California's 122 state licensed hospitals where this procedure is performed and is the third report to detail results for all 279 responsible surgeons who performed the surgery.

A Cardiac Surgery Data Manager Meeting will be held on April, 13 2011 at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. More details to follow.

In the online edition of the Boston Herald: Mortality rate improves for Mass. heart patients, as reported by the Associated Press.
http://www.bostonherald.com/jobfind/news/healthcare/view/20110302mortality_rate_improves_for_mass_heart_patients/srvc=home&position=also

Article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Public Release of Clinical Outcomes Data — Online CABG Report Cards.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1009423?ssource=hcrc

Article on the Boston Globe: After Mass. health law, racial gaps in heart care persist
http://www.boston.com/news/health/blog/2010/11/after_mass_heal.html

Congratulations to everyone who had an abstract accepted to the 2010 AHA Scientific Sessions! The following abstracts will be featured in presentations or posters in Chicago in November:

Acute and 3-year Bleeding Risks: Comparing Drug-Eluting to Bare-Metal Stents in Old and Very Old Adults in a Community Population. Daniel E. Forman, Samip Vasaiwala, Treacy S. Silbaugh, Ann Lovett, Sharon-Lise T. Normand, Laura Mauri. (Presentation)

30-Day All-Cause Readmission After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Massachusetts: Clinical Predictors and Hospital-Variation of a New Quality Metric. Robert W. Yeh, Katya Zelevinsky, Sharon-Lise T. Normand, Rahul Sakhuja, Ann Lovett, Bonne H. Weiner, Kenneth A. Rosenfield. (Presentation)

Mortality in STEMI Patients Undergoing Inter-Hospital Transfer for Primary PCI in Massachusetts. Murtuza J. Ali, Zoran S. Nedeljkovic, Katya Zelevinsky, Ann Lovett, Sharon-Lise T. Normand, Alice K. Jacobs. (Presentation)

Impact of Massachusetts Health Care Reform on Racial, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Disparities in Cardiovascular Care. Michelle A. Albert, Treacy S. Silbaugh, John Z. Ayanian, Ann Lovett, Robert E. Wolf, Katya Zelevinsky , Fred Resnic, Sharon-Lise T. Normand. (Presentation)

A Cardiac Surgery Data Manager Meeting will be held on December 9, 2010 at the Boston Medical Center. More details to follow.

The next Cardiac Surgery Data Manager Meeting will be held on September 15, 2010 at the Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis. More details to follow.