By: Bridgette Diedrich
If your transplant center is anything like mine, there is endless consternation about what the QAPI team should measure, despite our familiarity with CMS guidance for indicators to monitor. In the QAPI Resource Guide for Transplant Surveyors (2010) it is explained...
By: David Axelrod, MD, MBA
Patients with end stage organ failure face life-altering decisions. At the same time they may be overwhelmed by the clinical ravages of their disease. As a result, transplant centers evaluate patients when they are sick, fatigued, experiencing confusion from...
By: Koren Fay
Under pressure from CMS, UNOS and insurance companies, transplant centers often have a laser focus on the success of post-transplant patients. At the same time, the transplant center’s organizational leadership often focuses on new patient evaluations through financial and RVU incentive...
By: David Axelrod, MD, MBA
The January Program-Specific Reports produced by SRTR included marked changes in the expected death and graft failure rate for many centers, and especially for those with liver transplant programs. Changes in the center’s expected rate impacts the O:E ratio...
By: Jennifer Milton, BSN, MBA, CCTC
Maintaining an up to date Kidney Transplant Waiting List is a universally frustrating conundrum faced by Transplant Centers.
Pre-kidney nurse coordinators and staff are stretched thin: they must balance call, office duties, processing new referrals, managing outreach clinics while...
By: Jennifer Milton, BSN, MBA, CCTC
I suspect, like me, most of you working in transplant centers prior to 2006 BC,1 did not have a dedicated quality specialist—much less a team. At that time, I never would have dreamed that records would be audited...
