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HIGHLIGHTS REPORT 2016/17(April 1, 2016 – March 31, 2017)

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2016

/17 Transplant Highlights

TransplantationTotal Transplants 1,256

1,256Total

Transplants

242Living Donor Transplants

1,014Deceased Donor Transplants

Ryley Mitchell, heart recipient and Canadian Transplant Games participant, and Michael Galego,

TGLN Board member, pose together.

As of March 31, 2017, there were 1,556 Ontarians waiting for a lifesaving transplant

Enhanced capacity of provincial teams to ensure timely organ recovery

Partnered with Ontario Renal Network to develop educational materials for health care providers and patients and enhance communication between transplant centres and renal programs

In collaboration with the University Health Network (UHN), launched the

Pancreas for Islet Transplant Program

Launched collection of additional pre- and post-transplant data to facilitate reporting of patient outcomes

Supported improvements in patient centred care through development of the Clinical Handbooks for Transplantation

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2016

/17 Donation Highlights

95% routine notification rate

63% conversion rate (a 12.5% improvement from last year)

27 hospital corporations met or exceeded the target Provincial Conversion Rate (58-61%): • Bluewater Health • Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario • Collingwood General & Marine Hospital • Cornwall Community Hospital • Grey Bruce Health Services • Hamilton Health Sciences Centre • Health Sciences North • Hôpital Montfort • Joseph Brant Hospital • Kingston Health Sciences Centre • Lakeridge Health • London Health Sciences Centre • North Bay Regional Health Centre • Peterborough Regional Health Centre • Queensway-Carleton Hospital • Quinte Health Care • Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre • Sinai Health System • St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton • St. Michael’s Hospital • The Ottawa Hospital • Thunder Bay Regional Health

Sciences Centre • Timmins and District Hospital • Trillium Health Partners • University of Ottawa Heart Institute • William Osler Health System • Windsor Regional Hospital

3.30 organ yield – number of organs recovered and transplanted per donor

TGLN Regional Medical Leads and Hospital Donation Physicians pose together with Ronnie Gavsie at the 2016 Critical Care Canada Conference.

Enhanced physician leadership in donation in Ontario through 58 Hospital Donation Physicians and five Regional Medical Leads

Continued integrating donation as part of quality end of life care through development of policies and procedures specific to organ and tissue donation as part of medical assistance in dying

354 deceased organ donors – greatest number of deceased organ donors the province has ever seen

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2016

/17 Tissue Highlights

In-situ corneal recovery expanded to southwest and eastern Ontario in 2016/17 leading to improved tissue quality and corresponding surgical outcomes

Tissue program restructuring to enhance service delivery and facilitate more timely ocular tissue recoveries

Partnered with the Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario to expand the Coroner’s Referral and Screening Program across the GTA

PLUS developed a pilot referral and screening program with EMS in Prescott-Russell

Tissue DonationOcular Donors 2,217

Multi-Tissue Donors 183

Tissue Consent Rate (Percentage) 51

Restructuring of tissue system to consolidate all tissue

recovery services under TGLN

183Multi-Tissue

Donations

31Heart Valve Donations

97Bone Donations

55Skin Donations

Clinical specialists and TGLN employees perform

multi-tissue recovery simulation training.

Partnered with the Office of the Chief Coroner of Ontario to expand the Coroner’s Referral and Screening Program across the GTA

PLUS developed a pilot referral and screening program with EMS in Prescott-Russell

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2016

/17 Registration Highlights

BeADonor month saw

28,074 new registrations – highest ever recorded for April

Collaborated with ServiceOntario to rollout a more simplified donor registration form

90,000 Facebook fans and more than 4,500 Twitter followers

A total of 1,282 news items referring to TGLN with a reach of more than 100 million

Support for more than

250 community advocate led events in 2016/17

249,335new registrations in 2016/17 increasing registration rate to 31% by end of year

15 urban centres have registrations rates of 40% or higher

TGLN Advocate Summit hosted 200 OTDT advocates

to share ideas, build skills and celebrate organ and

tissue donation

Sponsorship of and media office for the Canadian Transplant Games

Donor Family Blue Jays game event at the

Roger's Centre.

BeADonor month saw

28,074 new registrations – highest ever recorded for April

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Quality and Information Management Highlights

Successful audits at seven external serological laboratories, three external organ recovery programs and at TGLN head office

Completion of offsite data centre, to ensure continuity of critical IT services

Enhanced charting process to standardize clinical notes ensuring fewer input errors and more timely chart completion

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2016

/17

Enhanced charting process to standardize clinical notes ensuring fewer input errors and more timely chart completion

“ The system came together not once, but twice, to save my life. I’m forever grateful to London Health Sciences Centre, Trillium Gift of Life Network and of course, my donors.”

– DOUG FERGUSON, TGLN BOARD MEMBER AND TWO-TIME LIVER RECIPIENT