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Transplant Coordinators of America

TCOA specializes in providing expert full-service support in Donornet organ offer call coverage, screening import organ offers for transplant centers.

Transplant Coordinators of America is the leading experts in the field of on call organ pre-screening. Transplant Coordinators of America is the largest, most respected and widely used company of its kind in the United States. Our sole commitment to you is to assist in anyway we can with the critical task of organ transplants. Our professional services are available nationwide; our on-the-ready ca

ll staff is more then prepared and pleased to take on the responsibility to it we save as many lives as we can. We will assist you in taking primary Donornet organ offer call coverage (screening), ground and air tissue transport, import offer team fly-outs, offer analysis for QAPI quality assurance. Thanks to our relationship with these transportation providers, our clients benefit from efficient and cost-effective air and ground transportation services. Every transplant center faces its own challenges in matching donors and recipients and facilitating transplants and we understand that the procurement of professional and outside services presents its own challenges. We will do whatever we can to help you fit our program into your process. Transplant Coordinators of America understands this unique process and our experienced staff offers full-service support. We make it a point to be flexible where we will custom tailor a system that best fits your staff, surgeons, and general mission. TCOA’s proven process of (call coverage + record keeping + transportation) have provided an increase in the number of transplants for our partner/clients an average of 8%. Happy staff results in increased efficiency allows programs to consider offers that may have been ruled out prior to coming on board with TCOA. Thus resulting in a more profitable hospital.

10/06/2020

08/26/2019

07/26/2019

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/07/26/745596505/dialysis-firm-cancels-524-600-17-medical-bill-after-journalists-investigate

This week, NPR profiled a Montana man who was billed nearly half a million dollars for 14 weeks of dialysis, after being caught in a dispute between insurer and the dialysis provider. Now he owes $0.

07/23/2019

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninashapiro/2019/07/17/stevie-wonder-to-receive-kidney-transplant-is-this-an-emergency/

Stevie Wonder will receive a kidney transplant in the coming months. Kidney disease is surprisingly common, especially in minority populations. Kidney donation can be performed from a living donor, and can be scheduled as opposed to performed as an emergency surgery.

07/16/2019

This is why transplant programs should contract with us. Our vast years of experience evaluating organs (hearts in this case) for so many transplant surgeons is an invaluable asset. Having our team of transplant coordinators helping screen organs and provide insights can help reduce this sort of risk.

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/ohsu-heart-transplant-deaths-rose-before-program-shut-down.html

The heart transplant program at Oregon Health & Science University Hospital saw a spike in patient deaths in the year before the program's suspension, reports The Oregonian.

07/09/2019

https://people.com/music/stevie-wonder-announces-plans-for-kidney-transplant-surgery/

"I have a donor and it's all good," Stevie Wonder told fans

07/02/2019

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-06-adding-clinical-variables-accuracy-lung.html

Implemented back in 2005, the lung allocation score is used to prioritize patients awaiting lung transplants in the United States. Sicker transplant candidates have a higher calculated score and are placed at the top of the list. But a recent study led by Maryam Valapour, M.D., MPP, director of Lung...

06/25/2019

https://www.wpxi.com/news/top-stories/hepatitis-c-transplant-upmc-doctors-complete-first-ever-hepatitis-c-heart-transplant/959959346

Pittsburgh is used to making medical history, and a team of doctors from UPMC has done it again with their first heart transplant from a donor with hepatitis C to a recipient who does not have the disease.

06/18/2019

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/06/18/china-killing-prisoners-to-harvest-organs-for-transplant-tribunal-finds/

The independent China Tribunal into forced prisoner organ harvesting In China released its final judgment on 17 June. The London-based tribunal concluded that the practice still continues alongside other crimes against humanity on the country's minorities.

06/12/2019

The sad stories of the opioid epidemic are well known by now and, their impact on organ transplant. In an article by staff at NYU Langone division of cardiology we see the effects first hand.

06/04/2019

https://www.healio.com/nephrology/transplantation/news/online/%7Bbfd70e8b-8474-44dc-9fd9-68a4f079e67c%7D/long-term-graft-and-patient-survival-after-kidney-transplant-on-positive-trajectory

BOSTON — In the past 3 decades, survival rates of both allograft and patients following kidney transplant have improved, according to a speaker at the American Transplant Congress. “I think there are a lot of reasons for optimism when it comes to kidney transplant outcomes,” Cather...

05/27/2019

The term burnout is usually thrown out here and there and all of us know what it means, but dont let it ruin your transplant program.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/27/health/who-burnout-disease-trnd/index.html

It's a feeling of extreme work stress that's long been embedded in the cultural lexicon, and now it might be codified in your medical records as well.

05/16/2019

Wow..

https://beta.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/judge-blocks-new-policy-for-distributing-livers-for-transplant/2019/05/15/50d08480-7759-11e9-b7ae-390de4259661_story.html?outputType=amp

The judge said she acted to delay the rules until the Supreme Court could decide a related case.

05/14/2019

https://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/news/listing-heart-lung-candidates/

The OPTN is operated under contract with the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). This Web site provides data and educational information about organ donation, transplantation and the matching process.

05/10/2019

INCREASE YOUR SUCCESS RATE - https://mailchi.mp/035ab7798258/unos-transplant-forum-2018-austin-tx-2969605

If your center is struggling to retain staff, tired of training new coordinators, suffering from staff burnout, or not happy with your OPO's performance, it might be time to let us take a look at screening your organ offers. TCOA is the industry leader, and innovators of helping transplant centers f...

05/07/2019

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-05-clinical-trial-lung-transplant-patients.html

A new study, presented today at the American Association for Thoracic Surgery's 99th Annual Meeting, shows that a potential treatment for ischemia- reperfusion injury is safe for humans. Building upon three decades of preclinical animal studies, this NIH-funded trial demonstrated, for the first time...

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