Harbor Regional Health Earns Statewide Recognition for Excellence in Cardiac Care
Pictured left to right: Lisa Reimer, RN; CNO Shannon Johnson, MSN, RN; Cardiac Cath Lab Director, Anna Gutierrez.
Harbor Regional Health is proud to announce that our Cardiac Cath Lab team has received a 2025 COAP Performance Recognition Award for excellence in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI), a life-saving procedure used to treat heart attacks and other serious cardiac conditions.
Presented by the Cardiac Care Outcomes Assessment Program (COAP), this award honors hospitals across Washington state that meet high standards for safety, quality, and timely care. Harbor Regional Health was recognized for meeting or exceeding benchmarks for quality care and for maintaining strong performance across all categories that they measure.
“This recognition reflects our team's exceptional commitment to high-quality cardiac care right here in Grays Harbor,” said Shannon Johnson, Chief Nursing Officer at Harbor Regional Health. “It’s also a testament to the skill and dedication of our interventional cardiology team.”
Harbor Regional Health is proud to be one of the only rural hospitals in Washington offering both emergency and elective PCI procedures, a level of advanced heart care typically only found in large urban centers. Our cardiac catheterization lab is equipped to treat heart attacks the moment they happen and also to provide scheduled procedures that help prevent future events. It’s advanced, life-saving care, delivered right here at home.
These procedures, performed in our state-of-the-art cardiac catheterization lab, can restore blood flow during a heart attack and help prevent future cardiac events. Having this level of advanced cardiac care available locally means patients can be treated faster, without the need to travel long distances in an emergency.
The award was presented during the COAP 2025 statewide conference, Keeping Our Focus on the Patient, held at SeaTac International Airport on June 4. Harbor Regional Health representatives joined leaders from across the region to discuss innovations and best practices in cardiovascular care.
Cath Lab Technician points at a monitor image of the vessels in a heart from the fluoroscopy machine used to guide percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures, allowing doctors to visualize the heart and blood vessels in real-time.
