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March System Performance Committee meeting

The OPTN/UNOS Ad Hoc System Performance Committee will meet in Chicago March 11-12, 2019 to review and formalize their recommendations to drive transplant system performance and effectiveness. The meeting is open to the public.


Geography

Geographic distribution efforts ongoing

Public comment sought on thoracic and VCA proposals; kidney-pancreas is subject of concept paper


Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ

Saint Barnabas Medical Center recognized for excellence

Learn more about how St. Barnabus Medical Center used collaborative improvement methodology to shorten wait time from evaluation to listing.


UNOS news, system changes

2019 annual UNOS request for information is available

Transplant administrators, data coordinators and financial coordinators can submit organ transplant program data to insurance and managed care companies.


The PDSA model is a framework for improvement

COIIN Results: Increasing the use of high KDPI kidneys

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


Photo of Dr. Michelle Josephson, Dr. Yolanda Becker, and LIsa Sandoval

Achieving a shorter, more active kidney waitlist

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


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