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  • Lahey Hospital and Medical Center Anticoagulation Program
    Burlington, MA
  • Valley Medical Center Anticoagulation Clinic
    Renton, WA
  • CoxHealth Anticoagulation Clinic
    Springfield, MO
  • Mercer Bucks Cardiology
    Lawrenceville, NJ
  • Lahey Outpaient Center, Danvers Anticoagulation Management Services
    Danvers, MA
  • AHN Anticoagulation Clinic
    Pittsburgh, PA
  • Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital
    Williamsville, NY
  • Atrius Health
    Norwood, MA
  • Sanford Anticoagulation Clinic
    Fargo, ND
  • Multicare Tacoma Family Medicine Anticoagulation Clinic
    Tacoma, WA
  • St. Charles Mercy Hospital Anticoagulation Service
    Oregon, OH
  • Group Health Cooperative
    Madison, WI
  • Swedish American Health System Anticoagulation Clinic
    Rockford, IL
  • Anticoagulation and Clinical Thrombosis Services-Lake Success
    Lake Success, NY
  • Phoenix VAMC
    Phoenix, AZ
  • Indian River Medical Center
    Vero Beach, FL
  • Memorial Medical Center Anticoag Management Service
    Las Cruces, NM
  • Kaiser Permanente Colorado
    Aurora, CO
  • ANTI COAGULATION CLINIC
    Cork, NA
  • Sarasota Memorial Hospital Anticoagulation Services - Clark Road
    Sarasota, FL
  • UCHealth Heart and Vascular - YVMC
    Steamboat Springs, CO
  • Tuality Anticoagulation Clinic
    Hillsboro, OR
  • Anticoagulation Medication Management Clinic at Rutland Heart Center
    Rutland, VT
  • Cleveland Clinic - Pharmacy Anticoagulation Clinic
    Cleveland, OH
  • UTHCT - IMC Coagulation Clinic
    Tyler, TX
  • WCGH Anticoagulation Clinic
    Belfast, ME
  • Franciscan St Margaret Health Anticoagulation Clinic
    Hammond, IN
  • Sarasota Memorial Hospital Anticoagulation Services- Heart and Vascular Services
    Sarasota, FL
  • UMass memorial healthcare
    Worcester, MA
  • The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center University Hospital East Anticoagulation Management
    Columbus, OH
  • Orlando VA Healthcare System
    Orlando, FL
  • Providence Holy Family Anticoagulation Clinic
    Spokane, WA
  • UC Irvine Medical Center Anticoagulation Clinic
    Orange, CA
  • NYU Anticoagulation Service at Langone Medical Center
    New York, NY
  • St. Josephs Healthcare Hamilton
    Hamilton, ON
  • Marshfield Clinic Health Systems
    Marshfield, WI
  • Mercy Health St. Anne
    Toledo, OH
  • Excela Health Cardiology
    Greensburg, PA
  • Cigna Medical Group Anticoagulation Management Service
    Sun City, AZ
  • Froedtert Anticoagulation & Medication Therapy Clinic
    Milwaukee, WI
  • University of Toledo Medical Center
    Toledo, OH
  • HonorHealth Medication Management - Scottsdale Shea Medical Center
    Scottsdale, AZ
  • Aleda E. Lutz VA Medical Center
    Saginaw, MI
  • Henry Ford Health System Anticoagulation Clinic
    West Bloomfield, MI
  • CBC Coagulation & Bleeding Clinic @ TX Tech U HSC El Paso
    El Paso, TX
  • Univ. of Illinois Chicago-Antithrombosis Service
    Chicago, IL
  • Swedish Medical Center - Department of Pharmacy Regional Anticoagulation Services
    Seattle, WA
  • Massachusetts General Hospital Anticoagulation Management Service
    Boston, MA
  • Mercy Health Saint Marys Anticoagulation Management Service
    Grand Rapids, MI
  • MultiCare Auburn Medical Center Anticoagulation Clinic
    Auburn, WA
  • Indian River Medical Center
    Vero Beach, FL
  • Concord Hospital-Laconia Anticoagulation Clinic
    Laconia, NH
  • Boston Medical Center Anticoagulation Clinic
    Boston, MA
  • Gulf States Hemophilia and Thrombophilia Center
    Houston, TX
  • Brigham & Womens Anticoagulation Management Service
    Boston, MA
  • Valley Medical Center Anticoagulation Clinic
    Renton, WA
  • Coumadin Clinic at St Joseph Hospital
    Nashua, NH
  • InterMed Internal Medicine
    Portland, ME
  • Anticoagulation Management Services - Upstate University Hospital
    Syracuse, NY
  • West Middlesex University Hospital
    London, NA
  • EVANS Army Community Hospital
    Ft. Carson, CO
  • Banner Baywood Medication Management Clinic
    Mesa, AZ
  • Huntington Hospital
    Huntington, NY
  • Presbyterian Healthcare Services
    Albuquerque, NM
  • Overlake Hospital Anticoagulation Clinic
    Bellevue, WA
  • Sanford USD Medical Center
    Sioux Falls, SD
  • The James Anticoagulation Management Service at The Ohio State University
    Columbus, OH
  • Western Reserve Anticoagulation Clinic
    Cuyahogo Falls, OH
  • Anticoagulation Department/Pharmacy VAMC
    Cleveland, OH
  • Kaleida Health: Buffalo General Medical Center
    Buffalo, NY
  • Betty Winter Anticoagulation Management Center At Emerson Hospital
    Concord, MA
  • St. Francis Hospital Anticoagulation Service
    Hartford, CT
  • Kaiser Permanente of Washington, Anticoagulation and Anemia Management Service
    Renton, WA
  • Providence Anticoagulation and Pharmacotherapy Clinic
    Spokane, WA
  • Cardiology Associates of Schenectady
    Schenectady, NY
  • Sarasota Memorial Hospital Anticoagulation Services - University Parkway
    Sarasota, FL
  • Salt Lake City VAMC
    Salt Lake City, UT
  • Sarasota Memorial Hospital Anticoagulation Services - Venice
    Venice, FL
  • Cigna Medical Group Anticoagulation Management Services - Clyde Wright
    Phoenix, AZ
  • Scott & White Clinic
    Temple, TX
  • UC Davis Health
    Sacramento, CA
  • Renown Health Anticoagulation Program
    Reno, NV
  • University of Michigan Anticoagulation Service
    Ann Arbor, MI
  • Indiana Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center
    Indianapolis, IN
  • Multicare Gig Harbor Anticoagulation Clinic
    Gig Harbor, WA
  • Oklahoma Heart Hospital
    Oklahoma City, OK
  • Mercy St. Ritas Medication Management Clinic
    Lima, OH
  • Confluence Health Anticoagulation Service
    Wenatchee, WA
  • Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center- Hematology AC Clinic
    Baltimore, MD
  • VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System Pharmacy Anticoagulation
    Reno, NV
  • SIUH/Northwell Health
    Staten Island, NY
  • North Estonia Medical Centre
    Tallinn, NA
  • University of Wisconsin Health Anticoagulation Clinic
    Madison, WI
  • Multicare Allenmore Anticoagulation Clinic
    Tacoma, WA
  • Mission Health
    Asheville, NC
  • Cigna Medical Group Anticoagulation Management Services - Stapley
    Mesa, AZ
  • St. Tammany Health System
    Covington, LA
  • Samaritan Hospital-Albany Memorial Campus
    Albany, NY
  • OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Anticoagulation Clinic
    Columbus, OH
  • Fairview Clinic
    Minneapolis, MN
  • Providence Sacred Heart Anticoagulation Clinic
    Spokane, WA
  • College Park Family Care Center Anticoagulation Therapy Clinic
    Overland Park, KS
  • Anticoagulation and Clinical Thrombosis Services-Great Neck
    Great Neck, NY
  • Rutland Regional Medical Center
    Rutland, VT
  • Mercer Bucks Cardiology
    Newtown, PA
  • InterMed Family Medicine
    Yarmouth, ME
  • Geisinger Medical Center
    Danville, PA
  • Bellevue Cardiology Clinic
    Seattle, WA
  • Rutland Heart Center
    Rutland, VT
  • B.I. Deaconess Medical Center Anticoagulation Management Service
    Boston, MA
  • VA Loma Linda Healthcare System Anticoagulation Service
    Loma Linda, CA
  • Indian River Medical Center
    Sebastian, FL
  • Alaska Native Medical Center
    Anchorage, AK
  • Nebraska Medicine
    Omaha, NE
  • AtlantiCare MTDM Anticoagulation Clinic
    Pomona, NJ
  • Sarasota Memorial Hospital Anticoagulation Services - Heritage Harbor
    Bradenton, FL
  • VA Medical Center - Minneapolis
    Minneapolis, MN
  • Lakeland Regional Health
    Lakeland, FL
  • Piedmont Athens Regional AMS
    Athens, GA
  • Barnet federated GP Anticoagulation Service
    Finchley, London, NA
  • Vail Health Anticoagulation Clinic
    Vail, CO
  • Penn State Hershey Medical Center Anticoagulation Clinic
    Hershey, PA
  • Huntington Hospital Medication Therapy Management Clinic
    Pasadena, CA
  • Hallmark Health System Anticoagulation Management Service
    Stoneham, MA
  • Franciscan St Margaret Health Anticoagulation Clinic
    DYER, IN
  • UMassMemorial Anticoagulation Center
    Worcester, MA
  • Park Nicollet Anticoagulation Clinic
    St. Louis Park, MN
  • PeaceHealth Anticoagulation Clinic
    Bellingham, WA
  • Sarasota Memorial Hospital Anticoagulation Services - Blackburn Point
    Sarasota, FL
  • Carroll Hospital Center Anticoagulation Clinic
    Westminster, MD
  • Walla Walla VA Anticoagulation Clinic
    Walla Walla, WA
  • Bassett Medical Center Anticoagulation Management Service
    Cooperstown, NY
  • Kaiser Permanente
    Tucker, GA
  • Trinity Medical Center Pharmacy
    Steubenville, OH
  • University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics / UW Health / Anticoagulation Service
    Madison, WI
  • Prisma Health Pharmacy Anticoagulation Clinic Simpsonville
    Simpsonville, SC
  • The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital AMSAnticoagulation Ce
    Columbus, OH
  • InterMed Anticoagulation Management Services
    South Portland, ME
  • Mercy West Hospital Anticoagulation Clinic
    Cincinnati, OH
  • Ascension Resurrection Medical Center Anticoagulation Clinic
    Chicago, IL
  • Rocky Mountain Heart & Lung Anticoagulation Clinic
    Kalispell, MT
  • El Reno Indian Health Center Pharmacy
    El Reno, OK
  • ACY VAMC
    Murfreesboro, TN
  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center Anticoagulation Clinic
    Nashville, TN
  • HFHS Ambulatory Anticoagulation Service
    Novi, MI
  • Zuni Comprehensive Community Health Center
    Zuni, NM
  • Sentara Anticoagulation Services
    Virginia Beach, VA
  • Deaconess Hospital Anticoagulation Clinic
    Evansville, IN
  • WSM VA Hospital Anticoagulation Clinic
    Madison, WI
  • Hartford Healthcare Anticoagulation Clinic
    Norwich, CT
  • St. Peters Health Partners Anticoagulation Clinic
    Troy, NY
  • HFHS Anticoagulation Clinic
    West Bloomfield, MI
  • MultiCare Good Samaritan Anticoagulation Clinic
    Puyallup, WA
  • Jesse Brown VA Medical Center
    Chicago, IL
  • St. Tammany Health System Anticoagulation Clinic
    Covington, LA
  • University of Washington Medical Center Anticoagulation Services, Department of Pharmacy
    Seattle, WA
  • Adirondack Health
    Saranac Lake, NY
  • WVUH Anticoagulation Clinic
    Morgantown, WV
  • Providence St. Peter Hospital
    Olympia, WA
  • Duke Health Anticoagulation Services
    Durham, NC
  • Kaleida Health
    Buffalo, NY
  • Froedtert Hospital - Stroke Center
    Milwaukee, WI
  • Huntington Hospital In-Patient Pharmacy
    Pasadena, CA
  • Claremore Indian Hospital
    Claremore, OK
  • Dana Farber Cancer Institute Anticoagulation Management Service
    Boston, MA
  • Seattle Childrens Hospital
    Seattle, WA
  • University of Utah Health Thrombosis Service
    Murray, UT
  • Cigna Medical Group Sun City - Multi-Specialty Center
    Peoria, AZ
  • University of New Mexico Anticoagulation Center
    Albuquerque, NM
  • SUMMA Anticoagulation Management Service
    Akron, OH
  • Cincinnati VA Medical Center Anticoagulation Clinic
    Cincinnati, OH
  • Prisma Health Pharmacy Anticoagulation Clinic Greer
    Greer, SC
  • Infusion Center and Interim Care Unit at Lee Memorial Hospital
    Fort Myers, FL
  • University of Toledo Medical Center
    Toledo, OH
  • St. Josephs
    Savannah, GA
  • Johns Hopkins Pediatric Anticoagulation Clinic
    Baltimore, MD
  • Cigna Medical Group Anticoagulation Management Services - Superstition Springs
    Mesa, AZ
  • Mayo Clinic
    Rochester, MN
  • Prisma Health Pharmacy Anticoagulation Clinic Greenville
    Greenville, SC

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Welcome to Anticoagulation Centers of Excellence

The Anticoagulation Centers of Excellence program was created in 2012 to help healthcare professionals provide the highest level of care and achieve the best possible outcomes for their patients on antithrombotic medications. Through access to evidence-based guidelines and constantly researched and updated best practices, tools and information, healthcare professionals will be able to improve outcomes through active participation in their patients' care. The Anticoagulation Centers of Excellence program offers a roadmap to achieving consistent, sustainable excellence in patient care.

There are two essential components to the Centers of Excellence program - an assessment tool to determine if your anticoagulation service is operating at the highest level, with recommendations and resources provided for specific areas that can be improved; and a comprehensive, searchable resource center that provides the guidelines and tools to improve towards excellence.

This Centers of Excellence program was created by the Anticoagulation Forum, the leading organization of healthcare professionals working to improve the quality of care for patients taking antithrombotic medications. More than 30 anticoagulation physicians, pharmacists, and nurse experts have worked together to create this resource. There is no cost to participate in this program.

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About AC Forum

Anticoagulation Centers of Excellence is a program of the Anticoagulation Forum. The Anticoagulation Forum is a multidisciplinary nonprofit organization of health care professionals that works to improve the quality of care for patients taking antithrombotic medications. The AC Forum works to minimize the risk and maximize the benefit of strategies used for the prevention and treatment of thromboembolic disease by providing education and networking opportunities for health care professionals, promoting the clinical application of evidence-based practices, facilitating research aimed at improving health outcomes, and informing healthcare policy, regulatory agencies, and industry about best practices. Founded in 1991 by Jack Ansell, MD, the organization has grown to over 12,000 members representing over 3,000 anticoagulation clinics throughout the world. Currently led by President Allison Burnett, PharmD, PhC, CACP, the AC Forum continues to be an important source of information and education for its expanding membership.

For more information visit acforum.org.

ACE Videos

Select Presentations from our National Conferences on Anticoagulation Therapy. Presentations will be available for limited time. Check back often for new presentations.

Rapid Fire: Top Articles You Need To Know
Tracy Minichiello, MD
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DOACs for Atrial Fibrillation, Why Are So Many AF Patients NOT On Anticoagulation
David Garcia, MD
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A Brief History of the World of Anticoagulation
Allison Burnett, PharmD, CACP, PhC
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