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CMS issues proposed rule for mandatory organ transplant payment model
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services May 8 released a proposed rule for the Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model, a new payment model that would test whether performance-based incentives or penalties for participating transplant hospitals would increase access to kidney transplants for patients with end-stage renal disease, while preserving or enhancing quality of care, improving equitable access to kidney transplant care, and reducing Medicare expenditures.
This Pennsylvania Health System Goes Blue and Green Each April. Here’s Why.
Penn State Health employees, College of Medicine faculty, staff and students show their support for organ donation on National Donate Life Blue & Green Day Friday by wearing blue and green.
Hackensack Meridian Hackensack University Medical Center Performs Milestone 300th Organ Transplant on Grateful 37-Year-Old Patient from Teaneck
For some people a lucky number might be a winning lotto ticket. Thirty-seven-year old Jose Vasquez of Teaneck, NJ, did win the lotto in a manner of speaking. His fortunate number: 300.
HRSA solicits contracts to transform Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network
The Health Resources and Services Administration Feb. 6 requested vendor proposals to support changes to governance, technology and operation of the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, as authorized by Congress last year.
CDC report on TB outbreak calls for better screening of bone allograft donors
Five surgery patients were diagnosed with tuberculosis, two of whom died, after receiving bone allografts last year from a deceased donor, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Jan. 4.
A ‘brave adventure’ in Maryland is paving the way for better heart disease outcomes
To the medical community, Lawrence Faucette’s life is notable for what his family deemed his “brave adventure” as the second-ever recipient of a genetically modified pig heart, which kept him alive for nearly six weeks after the transplant.
A patient cuts his foot at a bonfire. Now he’s part of a major milestone for M Health Fairview
By serving as “kidney transplant patient 10,001,” Dale Sorensen becomes the face of M Health Fairview’s major milestone.
Digital Transformation: Addressing Staffing Challenges in Specialty Care
As hospitals and health systems focus on digital transformation to address staffing shortages, efficiencies, and care processes to improve patient outcomes, the focus on technology to support clinical workflows has become part of the overall organizational strategy. Current systems are anchored in a paper-based world. The technology is ripe for use, and health care leaders are investing in clinical workflow automation in complex care environments, such as transplant centers for organ intake management, to improve staff experience and efficiencies, quality data capture and improve clinical quality. Join this webinar to hear from two health care leaders who have navigated these challenges and how they digitized their processes.
U.S. celebrates millionth organ transplant
The United Network for Organ Sharing, which serves as the nation’s transplant system under contract with the federal government, Friday reported its millionth U.S. organ transplant. UNOS and the Organ Donation and Transplantation Alliance credited the organ donation and transplantation community, including transplant hospitals, with making the historic milestone possible. The first successful transplant took place at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (now Brigham and Women’s Hospital) in Boston in 1954.
PHS updates guidance on pediatric testing for solid organ transplants
Based on a review of available data and public and stakeholder input, the U.S. Public Health Service has updated its 2020 recommendations for reducing HIV and hepatitis B and C transmission through organ transplantation.