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SERVICE SPOTLIGHT
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Guidry & East provides seasoned consultants to fill Interim rolls in transplant management and transplant QAPI positions. We can provide service for short-term and long-term assignments.
Interim management is discussed in great detail with the client to address a very specific list of duties and responsibilities for Guidry & East to assign an interim Transplant Administrator for the Transplant Program.
Transplant Management and QAPI Staffing Mentoring Program.
Guidry & East also provides Transplant Management and QAPI Staffing Mentorship programs. These mentorships are tailored to the specific needs of the program.
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CONSULTANT SPOTLIGHT
Jim Guidry, MED, MBA, Chief Executive Officer
During his consulting career spanning three decades, Jim has successfully designed recruitment and retention strategies for management and clinical personnel both in the United States and overseas, provided a wide variety of consulting services including The Joint Commission mock surveys, interim management, and clinical, operational and financial consulting to surgical and transplant services for healthcare facilities.
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We look forward to being your provider of the latest policies and procedures in quality patient care.
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A 'Miracle' Face Transplant Gives Young Man a New Life
ROCHESTER, Minn. - He'd been waiting for this day, and when his doctor handed him the mirror, Andy Sandness stared at his image and absorbed the enormity of the moment: He had a new face, one that had belonged to another man.
His father and his brother, joined by several doctors and nurses at Mayo Clinic, watched as he studied his swollen features. He was just starting to heal from one of the rarest surgeries in the world - a face transplant, the first at the medical center. He had the nose, cheeks, mouth, lips, jaw, chin, even the teeth of his donor. Resting in his hospital bed, he still couldn't speak clearly, but he had something to say.
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Voting opens Feb. 7 for UNOS Board Election/Annual Meeting of Members
The 2017 Annual Meeting of Members of United Network for Organ Sharing will be held at 700 North 4th Street, Richmond, Virginia, March 7, 2017, at 11:00 a.m. (ET) for the following purposes:
- To elect Directors and Officers of the Corporation to serve for stated terms or until their successors are duly qualified and elected. Please note that the UNOS Board of Directors continues to function as the OPTN Board of Directors.
- To ratify amendments to the Bylaws of the Corporation, which have been adopted by the Board of Directors since the Annual Meeting of Members on March 8, 2016.
- To transact such other business as may properly come before the Annual Meeting or any adjournment thereof.
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New Educational Resources Posted Throughout Feb. 2017
We will be adding the following educational recordings to UNOS' Learning Management System,
UNOS Connect, throughout February. To access them, follow these instructions:
- After logging on to UNOS Connect, select Course Catalog from the main menu, then select the category icon appropriate for the recording.
- Scroll down the list of titles to find what you are looking for.
- Click register on the right hand side of the screen.
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Organ transplants break record again in 2016
Organ transplants in the United States reached an all-time high for the fourth consecutive year in 2016, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). Preliminary data from UNOS shows transplants increased 8.5 percent from 2015 and 19.8 percent since 2012, with doctors performing 33,606 transplants in 2016.
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Should a Mental Disability Keep Patients Off Organ Transplant Lists?
By Dennis Thompson,
HealthDay Reporter
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 25, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Pressure is mounting for the U.S. organ donation network to tackle one of the thorniest ethical questions it's ever faced -- whether a person with intellectual disabilities should be denied access to a transplant.
A bipartisan group of 30 legislators from the U.S. Congress petitioned the Department of Health and Human Services in October to "issue guidance on organ transplant discrimination with regards to persons with disabilities," according to a new opinion piece in the Jan. 26 New England Journal of Medicine.
Full Article
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Protecting
the
Mitochondria
Against
Ischemia
Reperfusion:
A
Gassy
Solution?
American Journal of Transplantation
Organ transplantation success has seen great improve
ments in past decades due to progress in immune-
suppressive regimens. However, lack of long-term graft
outcome improvement, added to increased use of mar
ginal donors, has recently shifted the focus towards the
peritransplant period and particularly ischemia-
reperfusion injury (IRI). The recent acknowledgment of
the link between IRI and outcome, short or long term,
has rekindled interest in the study of the physiopathology
associated with organ preservation and the methods to
optimize it.
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Critically Ill Children Can Still Undergo Liver Transplantation and Survive
Advancements in critical care make it possible for even the sickest children to successfully undergo liver transplantation. According to a new study published online in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS), children who are sick enough to require mechanical ventilation or dialysis before transplantation achieve the same survival benefit as children who are stable prior to the surgical procedure. The study will appear in a print edition of the Journal this spring.
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High-Volume Hospitals Recover More Transplantable Organs Per Donor
A greater number of transplantable organs are recovered from deceased donors managed at high-volume hospitals, a new study finds.
Hospitals that handled the highest volume of deceased donors were 52% more likely to procure 4 or more organs per donor compared with hospitals that handled the lowest volume of cases, Darren J. Malinoski, MD, of Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Portland, Oregon, and his team reported in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, published online ahead of print. The national average is 3 transplantable organs per deceased donor, with a goal of 3.75 established by the Donation and Transplantation Community of Practice in 2013, they noted. High donor volume remained a predictor of superior outcome after adjustment for age, ethnicity, donor type, blood type, body mass index, creatinine, and geographic region.
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Kidney Transplant Recipients Often Hospitalized With Acute MI
(HealthDay News) - Renal transplant recipients (RTRs) are often admitted with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), according to a study published in the Feb 15 issue of
The American Journal of Cardiology.
Sahil Agrawal, MD, from St. Luke's University Health Network in Bethlehem, Penn, and colleagues examined recent trends in
AMI admissions for 9243 RTRs with
functioning grafts. Data were compared to those of 160,932 patients with end-stage renal disease without transplantation (ESRD-NRT) and 5,640,851 patients without advanced kidney disease (non-ESRD/RT) admitted with AMI.
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Record Number of Transplants in 2016 Reported
Surgeons in the United States transplanted a record number of organs, including kidneys, in 2016, according to data from the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS).
A total of 33,595 organ transplants took place in the United States in 2016, an increase of 8.4% from the 30,969 transplants in 2015. The number of
kidney transplants rose from 17,878 in 2015 to 19,061 in 2016, a 6.6% increase. During that same period, the number of kidney transplants involving deceased donors increased from 12,250 to 13,431, a 9.6% increase. The number of living-donor kidney transplants remained almost the same (5,628 in 2015 and 5,630 in 2016).
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Employment Opportunities
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Transplant Leadership Institute LLC
System Director, Renal Transplant
Transplant Leadership Institute has been retained by Loma Linda Transplantation Institute in Loma Linda, California, to identify and recruit a Surgical Director of Liver Transplantation for their growing abdominal transplant program. The ideal candidate should be mid to senior in their career, have completed a two-year fellowship in an ASTS-certified transplant surgery fellowship program and be American board certified in Surgery. The candidate will ideally have experience in liver, living donor (both liver and kidney), kidney (adult and pediatric) and pancreas transplantation.
This position will include competitive salary based on academic rank and a comprehensive benefit package, including medical, dental, CME, relocation assistance and paid malpractice insurance.
Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC) is a 900 bed facility and operates some of the largest clinical programs in the United States in areas such as neonatal care and outpatient surgery and is recognized as the international leader in infant heart transplant and proton treatments for cancer. Each year, the institution admits more than 33,000 inpatients and serves roughly half a million outpatients. LLUMC is the only level one regional trauma center in the area. The LLUMC Transplant Institute is recognized as a pioneering, leading edge program, nationally recognized and respected.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a thriving program. Interested candidates can respond in confidence with a full CV to:
[email protected].
Transplant Leadership Institute LLC
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Career Moves
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Barry Friedman named senior administrative director of Florida Hospital Transplant Institute
Florida Hospital is pleased to announce Barry Friedman has been named the senior administrative director of the Transplant Institute. Friedman will be responsible for providing administrative, regulatory and fiscal oversight of all solid organ transplant and mechanical circulatory support programs. Read
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Marilou Donley named COO/CFO at Texas Organ Sharing Alliance
Jerome Menendez Named New Executive Director for LifeShare of the Carolinas
Over recent months, there have been a number of changes at UNOS, which involved the creation of new departments via mergers of existing departments and promotions to senior leadership, as well as a number of other reorganizations and title shifts.
Here's a concise summary of those changes:
The department of development merged into UNOS business services (UBS), with both business services and fund-raising now in the same department, which will continue to be called UNOS business services. Ryan Ehrensberger, Ph.D., FACHE, will continue to lead both the research department and UBS, which will now include fund-raising.
The new department of member quality and organizational excellence (MQOE) was created from the merger of member quality and quality services. Henrisa "Henri" Haskell, RN, M.S., M.S.H.A., CMQ-OE, will continue to oversee member quality and will now also lead UNOS' quality program.
Promotions were announced for both Dr. Ehrensberger and Haskell to senior director, a new role at UNOS, which expands their responsibilities and adds them to the executive team. Ehrensberger's new title is senior director of research and business development, and Haskell's new title is senior director of member quality and organizational excellence.
In the new MQOE department, Jacqueline "Jacqui" O'Keefe, M.B.A., was promoted to director of member quality, and Catherine Monstello, CPHQ, has been named assistant director of the new Center for Organizational Excellence (COE). COE will focus on quality-improvement initiatives and facilitating UNOS' adoption of the national Baldrige framework for excellence.
In the information technology department, Richard Blair, M.S.I.S., has been promoted director of information security, and Amy Putnam, M.S.W., M.B.A., has been promoted to director of customer advocacy. Both are newly created positions in the IT department.
There have been a number of moves in the department of instructional innovations. Dyan Troxel, RN, M.S.N., has been promoted to assistant director. Erica Inge, M.Ed., Ed.S., has been promoted to lead e-learning instructor, and Kimberly Taylor, RN, has been promoted to lead curriculum development instructor. Both Beth Coe and Kimberli Combs, M.Ed., have been named curriculum development instructors.
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