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New England Donor Services Shares OPO Strategies for Success

New England Donor Services Shares OPO Strategies for Success

Apr 30, 2019 | Improvement, News, OPO

Alexandra Glazier, President and CEO of New England Donor Services, shares strategies for success in the hard work of increasing organ donors and transplants.

Lowering average time from referral to listing at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center

Lowering average time from referral to listing at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center

Mar 18, 2019 | Improvement, News

Enhancing the efficiency of the referral and evaluation process makes transplant patients ready sooner at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center

The Mayo Clinic on best practices and achieving common goals through collaborative improvement

The Mayo Clinic on best practices and achieving common goals through collaborative improvement

Mar 11, 2019 | Improvement, News

Mayo Clinic’s Quentin Booker on how transplant centers shared best practices through the UNOS collaborative improvement project.

Reducing the interval between evaluation and listing

Reducing the interval between evaluation and listing

Mar 6, 2019 | Improvement, News

St. Barnabas decreases median time by average of 33 days during COIIN

COIIN Results: Increasing the use of high KDPI kidneys

COIIN Results: Increasing the use of high KDPI kidneys

Feb 8, 2019 | Collaborative improvement, Improvement, Improvement feature, Kidney/pancreas, News

A three-year collaborative improvement pilot project, COIIN, explores new methods of quality monitoring. See how they increased the use of high KDPI kidneys.

Achieving a shorter, more active kidney waitlist

Achieving a shorter, more active kidney waitlist

Feb 7, 2019 | Improvement

Reviewing and reclassifying the kidney waitlist at University of Chicago Medical Center results in a 17 percent increase in transplants.

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90,000 people are waiting for a kidney. Here’s one way to get them a kidney faster.

The new, UNOS-supported Medicare program that should help increase kidney transplants.

A more efficient way to get organs to patients in need

Automated donor referrals will help more donated organs be transplanted. UNOS calls for Congressional action to mandate this process.

UNOS names 2024 Lisa Schaffner Community Advocate Award recipient

The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) has awarded the 2024 Lisa Schaffner Community Advocate Award to Leslie and Bill Carruth in recognition of their tireless advocacy in memory of their daughter, Alexander “Allie.” The Lisa Schaffner Community Advocate Award,...

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