NEATS Council
Northeast Antithrombotic Stewardship
The Northeast Antithrombotic Stewardship (NEATS) Council is a highly engaged, collaborative group of physicians, pharmacists, and nurses representing health systems and clinical practices across the Northeast.
Join the Council
Expertise shared.
Practice strengthened.
Monthly virtual meetings
A regular forum to connect across institutions.
Annual in-person Summit
Shared perspectives, together in one place.
The Council brings together leaders from anticoagulation clinics and antithrombotic stewardship programs who directly shape protocols, implement therapies, and address real-world challenges in patient care.
Through monthly virtual meetings and an annual in-person Summit, NEATS provides a forum to exchange insights, examine emerging evidence, and share experiences across inpatient, outpatient, and transitional care settings.
Discussions explore differences in institutional practices, uncertainty in clinical decision-making, and persistent barriers to treatment access and affordability.
Connecting expertise
with practice
NEATS members help guide anticoagulation and antithrombotic care within their institutions. Their responsibilities include:
- Developing and revising institutional protocols
- Implementing anticoagulant therapies
- Defining bleeding management, reversal pathways, and factor utilization strategies
- Establishing anticoagulation quality metrics
- Educating clinicians and supporting patients navigating access and affordability
The Council creates opportunities to compare approaches, share lessons from implementation, and identify practical solutions that members can adapt within their own institutions.
What we discuss
Council discussions address clinical and operational issues, including:
- Anticoagulation protocols and clinical decision-making
- Management of bleeding and thrombotic risk
- Anticoagulant reversal and factor utilization
- Transitions between hospital and outpatient care
- Treatment access, affordability, and continuity
- Quality measurement and opportunities to improve care
- Emerging evidence and its implications for practice
Participating organizations
in 2026–2027
Council members represent health systems, hospitals, and clinical practices across the region, including:
- Atrius Health / Optum
- Beth Israel Lahey Health
- Boston Medical Center
- Crown Colony Clinic Quincy
- Dartmouth Hitchcock
- Eliot Health System
- Greater Lawrence Medical Center
- Hartford Healthcare
- Lifespan
- Maine Health
- Mass General Brigham
- Mass General Brigham – Northshore Physicians Group
- Northern Light Health System
- Signature Healthcare
- Tufts
- UMass Memorial
- Wentworth-Douglass Hospital
- Wentworth Health Partners
- Yale-New Haven
Join the Council
Interested in becoming a participating institution? Contact Aviva Schwartz to learn more about NEATS and how your team can get involved.
Contact Aviva Schwartz
Medical Advisory Board Co-Chair