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Cleveland Clinic, Lifebanc and Transplant Connect have designed and launched a fully automated donor referral system to streamline the process for hospital staff identifying and evaluating potential organ, tissue and eye donors.
The new process was launched successfully throughout the Cleveland Clinic health system in northeast Ohio in February 2021, following a successful pilot at Cleveland Clinic main campus and Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital in 2020. To implement a donor referral process that would work with each of the organization s platforms, Cleveland Clinic collaborated with Lifebanc, the non-profit organ procurement organization (OPO) for northeast Ohio, and Transplant Connect, a medical software company specializing in donation-transplant software.
Around the nation: Nebraska church wipes out $7.2M in medical debt
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King of Kings Church in Omaha raised $35,000 to forgive a total of $7.2 million in medical debt for 2,700 people through a partnership with RIP Medical Debt, in today s bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Colorado, Nebraska, and Ohio.
Colorado: Gov. Jared Polis (D) during his recent state of the state address honored Toni Moses, an ED nurse at
UCHealth, for her work on the front lines of America s coronavirus epidemic while she was simultaneously undergoing chemotherapy for stage 4 ovarian cancer. I was at high risk, Moses said, but she added, I think working is something I love. I ve been a nurse for over 30 years and it brings normalcy to your life (Boyd, CBS4 Denver, 2/17; Carbajal,