Mimi Coomler, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Joy Upshaw, Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer
Celebrating
Healthcare Heroes, Mimi Coomler, serves as senior vice president and
chief operating officer for TMC HealthCare, leading operational and
nursing services for the organization.
In her role, Coomler is
responsible for driving safety and quality improvements and has
operational responsibility for areas across the hospital, including
surgery, emergency services, critical care, infection control and
hospice. She has focused expertise in creating partnerships, strategic
planning, regulatory compliance and team building.
Her return to
TMC in 2017 was a bit of a homecoming. Coomler served as the director of
patient care services for TMC for Women and TMC for Children from
2006-12. In between, she served as the chief executive officer of
Children's Clinics for Rehabilitative Services, a nonprofit
multi-specialty clinic that serves as a medical home for children with
complex healthcare needs.
With 18 years as a registered nurse,
she is passionate about improving health throughout Southern Arizona.
Children with special health care needs became an area of focus for her
after her young son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Coomler is past
president of the Southern Arizona Women's Foundation and former board
chair of the local chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund.
Joy
Upshaw is vice president and chief nursing officer at Tucson Medical
Center. Joy has more than 16 years of clinical leadership experience
devoted to enhancing the quality of care provided by nursing. She has a
reputation for outstanding leadership in a wide and diverse range of
nursing areas, such as Medical/Surgical, Oncology, Orthopedics, Cardiac,
Maternal Child Health, Emergency medicine, Same-Day Services,
Respiratory Therapy and Intensive Care. Earlier in her career she was
recognized as one of Oklahoma’s first 100 Great Nurses. Joy earned both
her BSN and MBA from Oklahoma Wesleyan University. She is known for
developing and fostering effective nursing leadership teams. This
episode made possible by the generous support of Tucson Medical Center
