[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 10]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 14043]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              RECOGNIZING THE CAREER OF CARL COAN, MS, MPH

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                       HON. LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, July 31, 2014

  Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate Carl 
Coan on the end of his tenure as president and CEO of Los Angeles' 
Eisner Pediatric & Family Medical Center (EPFMC).
  In his role as president and CEO since 1990, Mr. Coan has played a 
major role in expanding the medical center on every front. Annual 
patient visits have increased from 17,000 to 114,000. Annual operating 
revenue has gone from $1.7 million to $24 million. Three capital 
campaigns have raised a combined $17.8 million. The EPFMC has expanded 
to nine locations, and has been designated as a Federally Qualified 
Health Center. Meanwhile, its number of services has ballooned to 
encompass such new areas as family health, round-the-clock hospital 
care, early child development, behavioral health, speech and 
occupational therapy, pharmacy, and case management. It has also come 
to feature such innovative care models as centering pregnancy prenatal 
care, a foster grandparent program, and an adolescent medicine clinic.
  Mr. Coan has also facilitated a partnership between the University of 
Southern California's Keck School of Medicine of USC and the California 
Hospital Medical Center to establish and oversee the USC-Eisner Family 
Medicine Center at California Hospital, which serves as the main 
training site for the California Hospital Medical Center's Family 
Medicine Residency program.
  Outside of EPFMC, Mr. Coan is a prominent leader in the local health 
community. He is the founder and past president of the Health Care L.A. 
IPA and the Southside Coalition of Community Health Centers, a current 
board member of the California Primary Care Association, and a former 
board member for the Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County 
and L.A. Care Health Plan.
  Mr. Coan also meets regularly with government officials to speak 
about issues important to the EPFMC and other community health centers. 
I have personally met with him many times, and he has participated in 
my annual community health center roundtables alongside other health 
care providers from my district. I can attest that he is an excellent 
advocate for the vital role that community clinics and health centers 
play in our health care system. It is fitting that he received the 
California Primary Care Association's 2013 Clinical Legacy Award for 
his hard work in increasing awareness of the importance of these 
facilities.
  Mr. Speaker, as Carl Coan leaves his position at the helm of EPFMC, I 
want to recognize his long and distinguished career of providing 
excellent and wide-ranging medical care to the people of Los Angeles. I 
ask my colleagues to join me in celebrating the fine work he has done 
to make Los Angeles a healthier and happier place to live, and to wish 
him the very best as he moves on to new challenges.

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