National Senior Director, Rural Healthcare Quality American Heart Association Quality, Outcomes, Research, & Analytics Team. Mindy leads the Association’s Rural Health Care Outcomes Accelerator initiative to support evidence-based care and equitable outcomes in the rural setting through optimization of cardiovascular & stroke patient care. Mindy holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and practiced clinically in the acute care setting for 12 years prior to joining the Association. During her 13-year tenure at the Association, she has led various statewide and regional heart attack, stroke, and heart failure initiatives to optimize quality and systems of care coordination that have yielded a lasting improvement in patient outcomes. She is passionate about the opportunity to empower, connect, and educate professionals from rural hospital across the nation through unique offerings such as the rural learning collaboratives, rural community network, and Get With The Guidelines® quality programs.