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AM23-MN-30-O

AM23-MN-30-O: Impact of Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions on the Transfusion Service (Enduring)

Credits
1 General Continuing Education (GEN) | 1 Florida Lab Personnel (FLP) | 1 California Nurse (CN) | 1 California Lab Personnel (CLP) | 1 Physician (PHY)
$3000
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Hospital mergers and acquisitions continue to increase, driven largely by economic necessity. While there are templates to guide these mergers, little coordinated information is available to help transfusion services successfully merge and coordinate multiple transfusion services within these newly formed hospital systems. Recently our hospital system has expanded its local community footprint and acquired several smaller regional facilities. The goal of this proposed educational session is to share the insights we have gained that may aid in successfully managing the integration of multiple transfusion service operations into a coordinated operation that can realize opportunities to improve service effectiveness, quality, and operational cost savings as a part of hospital consolidation. Hospitals that become part of a regional system generally vary in size and complexity, making it important, as an initial step, to understand each facility's current capabilities and future organizational expectations. In our institution, this is the responsibility of the Regional Transfusion Director. Once this is well-documented, recommendations are developed that will drive system standardization, regulatory and quality initiatives, staffing, opportunities for electronic remote distribution, blood supply and costs, and patient blood management. We intend to discuss the benefits and challenges we have encountered in implementing these initiatives.

Learning Objectives

  • Recognize the challenges and obstacles in merging a transfusion service into a a hospital network
  • Describe the potential benefits of transfusion service integration into a hospital network
  • Describe the benefits in staffing, turnaround times, and cost reduction in systematizing blood bank operations
  • Review the advantages of a single information system within the transfusion services integrated into the hospital system

Moderator & Speaker

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Jerry Squires, MD, PhD, MBA
Professor; Med. Dir. Transfusion Service, Medical University of South Caroliona

Speaker

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Erin Pfeiffer, MS, MT(ASCP)SBB, LSSGB
System Director-Transfusion and Transplant Lab., Medical University of South Carolina

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