Transplant Center Operational Assessment
Organizations engage Guidry & East to conduct Transplant Center Operational Assessments for a number of reasons. Transplant Center Operational Assessments are customized to the unique needs of each Transplant Center. The methodology for an operational assessment typically focuses on the topics listed below:
Leadership
- Organizational leadership structure
- Supporting resources required for operational success of the Transplant Center
- Physician and administrative management structure, including appropriate reporting relationships
Operations
- Transplant clinic scheduling, patient flow, and medical records. Make recommendations to ensure efficient and cost-effective care
- Time of referral to UNOS listing
Pre-transplant Donor and Recipient Evaluations
- Appropriate clinical documentation for compliance and cost recovery
- Electronic patient identifiers
- Recipient pre-evaluation
- Donor pre and post-donation follow-up
Patient Access
- Pre-transplant registration process
- Transplant financial clearance process
Physical Space
- Current capacity of the Transplant Center and infrastructure support, and determine future needs based on volume projections and plans for future expansion
- Current clinical space
- Current HLA or OPO space
- Lay staff office and work areas
- Surgeon and Physician location and space
Organ Utilization
- Cadaver organs excised in facility
- Cadaver recipient organs
- Live donor organs – In house transplant and Paired Donation
- Medicare secondary for organ acquisition reimbursement
- Organs discarded and/or sent to research