AOPO Partners with CMS in Effort to Address National Kidney Shortage

Key Facts

• The ETCLC recognizes that OPOs are one piece of a larger system and true success comes from donor families, hospitals, OPOs, and transplant programs working together toward these common goals” > > Tweet this As part of the LCC, AOPO will ensure the lessons learned, best practices identified, and results of the ETCLC are shared and recommended for implementation throughout the OPO community.
• “We are pleased to be a leader in this Learning Collaborative that will improve the way we facilitate the recovery and transplantation of kidneys in this country,” says Jan Finn, RN, MSN, AOPO President, and President and CEO, Midwest Transplant Network.
• One of the goals of our campaign is to increase the number of kidneys recovered by OPOs and maximize organ utilization by transplant centers to save more patient lives on the waiting list.”
• With AOPO’s support, the ETCLC will engage transplant centers, OPOs, large donor hospitals, patients, and donor family members to identify highly effective practices currently in use and establish a knowledge sharing process to spread these practices throughout the organ procurement, kidney care, and kidney transplant community to achieve the following three aims: • AIM #1 Increase the number of deceased donor kidneys transplanted by 15% • AIM #2 Decrease the current national discard rate of all procured kidneys by 5% • AIM #3 Increase kidneys recovered and utilized from medically complex donors by 14% Supported by coaches, national faculty, and professional and patient advocacy groups, the ETCLC plans to enroll 80% of transplant centers and OPOs plus the two largest donor hospitals in each OPO’s donor service area into 25 Quality Improvement Teams.

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