cook children’s medical center and lifegift: senior leadership matters laurie patterson rn nurse...
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Cook Children’s Medical Cook Children’s Medical Center and LifeGiftCenter and LifeGift: :
Senior Leadership MattersSenior Leadership Matters
Cook Children’s Medical Cook Children’s Medical Center and LifeGiftCenter and LifeGift: :
Senior Leadership MattersSenior Leadership MattersLaurie Patterson RNLaurie Patterson RN
Nurse Manager PICUNurse Manager PICUCook Children’s Medical CenterCook Children’s Medical Center
Cook Children’s Medical Center
• 282 beds, 2430 employees• 2136 patients served each
month• 2 Intensive Care Units:
– 33 bed PICU (including Cardiac Intensive Care)– 54 bed NICU
• Service area: Western half of Texas; referrals from 27 states last year.
• Kidney transplant program
Cook Childrens Medical Center
•Level 2 Trauma Center •85,271 pediatric E.R.
visits and trauma patients served last year
•Helicopter and fixed wing transport
Senior Leadership Support
• Senior leaders set the tone and the stage for donation within the hospital.– Set expectations for hospital
performance (conversion rate)– Assume joint accountability with OPO
for results– Maintain contact with OPO executive
leadership– Provide the leadership to ensure best
practices are implemented
Cook Childrens/LifeGift Collaboration
• We respect the OPO’s mandate to maximize donation.
• We jointly serve donor families and children awaiting transplantation.
• Formed close relationships throughout many levels of the hospital and LifeGift: leadership, clinicians, public relations.
• Actively involved in the board level of LifeGift.
CCMC Timely Notification RateImminent Deaths
02468
101214161820
Q42003
Q 12004
Q 22004
Q 32004
Q 42004
Q 12005
Q 22005
Q 32005
Q 42005
Q 12006
Q 22006
Q 32006
Q 42006
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Imminent Deaths Identified Timely Notification of Imminent Deaths
CCMC Conversion Rate
0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%
100%
Q42003
Q 12004
Q 22004
Q 32004
Q 42004
Q 12005
Q 22005
Q 32005
Q 42005
Q 12006
Q 22006
Q 32006
Q 42006
# Im
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Organ Donors Family Decline
Future for Cook Children’s Medical Center and Organ
Donation
• Our challenge is to: 1. Reach for our next
benchmark: 90% conversion rate.