Overview
In the midst of today’s ever-changing transplant landscape, its allocation systems, and complex regulatory processes, the 6th Annual Transplant Quality Institute remains committed to the founding mission of providing current and relevant education, resources, and tools necessary to remain focused, competitive, and compliant in today’s healthcare market while preserving our tradition of presenting foundational material for professionals new to transplant quality.
For more information, please see our conference brochure.
Accommodations
A relaxing oasis with a backdrop of mountains and palm trees, Omni Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa offers an ideal escape in the Coachella Valley. Revel in timeless comforts, classic conveniences and modern technologies that have made our resort minutes from Palm Springs a desired destination for a sun-drenched getaway.
Located in Rancho Mirage, California, we’re convenient to the world-famous Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, Palm Desert’s El Paseo with a shopping experience similar to Beverly Hills’ Rodeo Drive, and fine dining at a stunning number of establishments. Set on 240 lush acres, our resort has been renovated to include a fresh, new color palette, expanded fitness center, refurbished spa and redesigned boutiques. Make a splash in one of our three pool settings. Splashtopia, our 2-acre water playground, features a 450-foot lazy river, two 100-foot water slides, cliff-side Jacuzzi, sandy beach and fountains and sprinklers for the kids.
You can also take time for yourself and replenish your body and soul at our 20,000-square-foot spa. New heights of relaxation will be discovered with our exhilarating treatments that use pure essences of desert botanicals. Our 27 holes of championship golf will challenge amateurs and pros alike with palm tree-lined fairways and incredible mountain vistas.
Omni Rancho Las Palmas guest reservations are available with the hotel at 1-760-568-2727. Reference the American Foundation for Donation & Transplantation room block or use code 100119AFDTQI20. Reserve prior to September 8, 2019 to receive the low cost group rate of $189 plus tax. The resort fee over the conference dates, October 1-3, 2019 have been waived. Reservations can also be made online here.
Presentations
In preparation for the Transplant Quality Institute Conference, we have provided all of the conference materials here. Please click the link to download and print any materials you may need.
Objectives
- Describe the intent of the SRTR 5-tier system.
- Discuss current and future initiatives of OPTN/UNOS.
- Describe the current state of CMS interpretive guidelines.
- Identify perioperative quality metrics and monitoring techniques for capturing adverse events in the operating rooms.
- Discuss methods for increasing engagement in responding to OPTN public policy proposals.
- Evaluate potential impact of organ allocation based on broader geographic distribution principles.
- Describe results of the ad hoc OPTN Systems Performance Committee.
- Explain the effective use of organ offer tools in decision-making.
- Analyze the effect of transplanting A2 to B donor kidneys on wait time and transplantation rate.
- Analyze outcomes of transplanting Hepatitis C positive donors in hepatitis C negative recipients.
- Discuss lessons learned from transplant centers surveyed under the revised interpretive guidelines.
- Describe basic concepts of regulatory compliance, quality assurance, and performance improvement.
Wednesday
The American Foundation for Donation & Transplantation has a full agenda planned for attendees of the 6th Annual Transplant Quality Institute Conference. Below please see the agenda for Wednesday, October 2nd. For a complete agenda, please click here.
AGENDA - Wednesday, October 2, 2019 | |
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7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. | Registration Desk Open |
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. | Breakfast with Exhibitors |
General Session | |
8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. | Update from UNOS |
9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. | Update from SRTR |
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Refreshment Break with Exhibitors |
10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. | CMS Transplant Program Updates |
10:45 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. | Regulatory Panel |
11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Quality & Safety Implications of Broader Distribution |
12:00 noon – 1:00 p.m. | Lunch |
QAPI 101 | Abstract Session |
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1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. | 1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. |
Rules and Regulators | Integrating Transplant Quality and Hospital Quality Four Years On Building Year Upon Year: Fostering Physician Engagement in Transplant Quality Improvement Initiatives |
1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. | 1:30 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. |
SRTR 101 | Financial Implications of Understanding the Medicare Time Sheet Lines, Formulas, and Rows, Oh My! Best Practices for Managing Transplant Data Streamlining the Referral Intake Process to Improve Patient Throughput |
QAPI 101 | Abstract Session |
2:45 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. | 2:45 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. |
Choose Those Quality Metrics Wisely! Strategies for Meaningful Data | Lab Turnaround Times: A Process Improvement Project in a Post Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Clinic Kidney Biopsy Cancellation Reduction Leveraging Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Tools for Survey Readiness |
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | 3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Performance Improvement 101 | No Stent left behind. Optimizing Transplant Center Stent Tracking and Removal Improving Lab Data Compliance for 1-and 2-Year Kidney Living Donor Follow-up |
4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. | Poster Reception | |
Registration
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Thursday
AGENDA - Thursday, October 3 | |
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7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. | Breakfast with Exhibitors |
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | One is NOT Enough! Report of the UNOS-sponsored Systems Improvement Task Force |
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Update from MPSC |
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Refreshment Break with Exhibitors |
10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. | Donor Disease Transmissions: Hot Topics, Case Presentations,and Discussions |
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Using FMEA to Assess Failure Points during the Organ Offer and Acceptance Process Related to Donor Infectious Disease Transmission Risk |
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Lunch |
1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. | Physician Engagement: Wins, Challenges, Tips |
1:45 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. | Peeking Behind the Curtain: The OR Black Box - Abdominal Peeking Behind the Curtain: The OR Black Box – Thoracic |
2:45 p.m. - 3:15p.m. | Conundrums of Multi Organ Transplant |
3:15 p.m. - 3:30p.m. | Facilitated Panel Discussion |
Friday
AGENDA - Friday, October 4 | |
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7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. | Breakfast with Exhibitors |
8:00 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. | Rock the Vote: Effective Engagement in Transplant PolicyDevelopment |
8:45 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. | SRTR5 - Tier: Patient Focused Data Presentation |
9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Refreshment Break with Exhibitors |
10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. | Increase in Kidney Acceptance Following Implementation of an In-House Organ Offer Team |
10:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | Hepatitis C Positive Donors in Hepatitis C Negative Candidates |
10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | Determining Eligibility of Type B Candidates for Transplantation with A2 (A, non-A1) Kidneys |
10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | Improving High KDPI Consenting Rates: A COIIN Process Improvement Project |
11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. | Saving Time While Saving Lives with Heart Allocation & Recertification Dashboard |
11:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | Expedited Liver Placement |
11:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. | Question and Answer Session |
11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Lunch |
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. | Monitoring Offer Acceptance Using CUSUMs |
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. | CMS Surveys: Been There, Done That ... Not Necessarily in the New State Survey Era |
3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. | Closing Remarks |
