Successes and Future Directions

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Successes and Future Directions
Presentation At the ASMHTP Annual
Meeting September 17, 2008 by Bruce A.
Wilson Executive Director Association of Organ
Procurement Organizations
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Successes

• Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
• DonorNet 2007 gt Making the Match
• Public Trust in Tissue Recovery
• Asian Pacific Islander brochure with DLA
• Presentation at AOPO HD meeting
• Establish a portal page (speakers and info)
• Implement AOPO/ASMHTP grant program

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Standards Addressing Diversity and Multicultural
Issues

• 2002 DMAC HD Council charged with recommending
  model language for OPO work plans with hospitals
  regarding efforts to increase consent rates
  across divers population groups.
• Presented two new standards to the SA Committee
• Revisions were made and to the new standards were
  sent to all OPOs for review and comment.
• Standards were approved and formally announced
  during a press conference, January 7, 2004 in PR.

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Standards Addressing Diversity and Multicultural
Issues

• The OPO shall review the linguistic, racial, and
  cultural composition of its service area.
•  The OPO shall identify the unique needs for
  donation in distinct populations.
• The OPO shall assess the availability of staff,
  services, and volunteers and seek to ensure
  effective primary language communication and
  educational support to substantially sized and
  distinct linguistic, racial, and cultural
  communities, as determined by the OPO.

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Standards Addressing Diversity and Multicultural
Issues

• The OPO shall identify and encourage the
  distribution of communication tools to expand the
  awareness of donation and the benefit of
  transplantation among targeted linguistic,
  racial, and cultural groups throughout the OPO
  donor service area.
• The OPO shall monitor the consent and conversion
  rates of distinct linguistic, racial, and
  cultural groups it has previously identified and
  sought to serve through specific programming 

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Standards Addressing Diversity and Multicultural
Issues

• 2007 Nineteen OPOs surveyed 1 scored 99, 18
  scored 100
• 2008 to date Seven OPOs surveyed 1 scored 90,
  1 scored 97, and 5 scored 100

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Future Directions

• Advocacy
• Knowledge Transfer
• Business Benefits

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Current Initiatives

• Requesting CDC revisit and update the definition
  of High-risk donor
• Work with CMS to develop a workable Interpretive
  Guidance document
• Revisit the Declaration of Istanbul and the
  notion of some type of remuneration to a donor or
  the donors family
• Work with VA on disclosure of info to OPOs

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Current Initiatives

• Working through the Organ Donation and
  Transplantation Alliance to improve relationships
  between OPOs and hospital leadership.
• Working with the American College of Healthcare
  Executives to raise interest in Organ Donation
• Collaborating with providers (e.g. SCCM)

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Future Successes

• Sharing information
• Sharing opportunities
• Highlighting best practices of OPOs and
  transplant centers