Transcript A Team “Workout” to Facilitate Safe Patient

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20
The
Annual UNOS
Transplant Management
Forum
April 25-27, 2012
WINNERS
1st Annual
Deedle Heckenkemper Leader in
Transplant Administration Award
Edward Zavala, MBA
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN
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Category 1
Cost Reduction/Increase in Work
Efficiency/Patient Care Safety
Programs
Sponsored by
LifeTrac Network
Clinical Care Triad: A Team “Workout”
to Facilitate Safe Patient Discharge
Zeynep Tulu, MS, MEMP, Tom Caffey, MBA, CSSBB, CQE,
Tracy Carroll, BSN, RN, PCCN, David Gerber, MD, Jessica
Hawn, RN, BSN, Lisa Jurgevich, MSW, LCSW, Juanita
Parker, BSN, RN, MBA, MHA, Leonie Vachon, A/GNP-BC
University of North Carolina Hospitals,
Chapel Hill, NC
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Category 2
Quality Assurance/Improvement/
Transplant Pharmacoeconomics
Sponsored by
OTTR Chronic Care Solutions
Reduction of Left Ventricular Assist
Device (LVAD) Readmissions Due to
Heart Failure and Arrhythmia
Danielle Miller, RN, BSN, Stephanie Hoppin, RN, BSN,
Tracie Rivet, Wil Sutton, Mandy Bowen, RN, Tracy
Vernon-Platt, NP, Ian Hollis, PharmD, Randy Watkins,
BSEE, SSBB
University of North Carolina Hospitals,
Chapel Hill, NC
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Category 3
Transplant Administration in General
Sponsored by
Transplant Communications/
Transplant News
Volume-Outcome Trends in Mortality of
Orthotopic Liver Transplant Centers
Valeriya Kettelhut, MD, MPH, CMQ,
Preethy Nayer, MD, PhD
The Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
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Category 4
Revenue Management/Optimizing
Profitability
Sponsored by
Transplant Management Group, LLC
The Living Donor SAC: A Compliant,
Commonsense Approach to Billing
Another Transplant Program for Living
Donor Services
Gwen McNatt, RN, MS, CNN, FNP-BC, Jason
Skrzypinski, BS, MBA, Stephen Nelson, BA
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL
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Category 5
Transplant Center Initiatives to
Increase Organ Donation
Sponsored by
LifeLink of Puerto Rico
Using Multiple Modalities to Increase
Living Donation Opportunities
Randal Detwiler, MD, Deborah Erickson, RN, MSN, PhD,
Eddie Fuller III, MD, Lauren Kearns, MSN, RN-BC, Ann
Litts, RN, BSN, CCTC, Tomasz Kozlowski, MD, Yara
Park, MD, Alex Toledo, MD, Zeynep Tulu, MS, MEMP
University of North Carolina Hospitals,
Chapel Hill, NC
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Category 6
Transplant Data: Analysis, Reporting
and Research
Sponsored by
Management Science Associates, Inc.
Improving Data Capture in a Large
Metropolitan Kidney & Pancreas
Transplant Program
Meredith Aull, PharmD, Paul Murphy, Paul Sonder,
Kathleen Erbacher, MPA, Stefanie Goldberg,
Sandip Kapur, MD
New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell
Medical College, New York, NY
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BEST of the BEST
Sponsored by
AST Transplant Administrators
Community of Practice
HLA Monitoring is an Effective Tool for
Transplant Program Cost Reduction and
Improved Waitlist Management
Tamra Grote, RN, BSN, Hirohito Ichii, MD, PhD, Eric
Belen, BSIE, MBA, Jon Le, BS, Eileen Polito, RN, BSN,
Clarence Foster III, MD, FACS
University of California Irvine, Orange, CA
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