Measuring Quality of Care and Outcomes for Organ-Transplant Patients at Cedars-Sinai
The Cedars-Sinai Transplant Center is committed to continually improving the quality of patient care and survival rates. It monitors and reports on the number of transplant surgeries and the one-month, one-year and and three-year survival rates for patients having:
- Heart transplantation
- Kidney transplantation
- Kidney-pancreas transplantation
- Liver transplantation
- Lung transplantation
In addition, certain measures of the quality of care given to patients is measures on a hospitalwide basis. These include:
- Nursing excellence
- Preventing hospital-acquired infections
- Surgical care, including infection prevention and blood clot prevention
- Consumer perceptions of Cedars-Sinai
- Patient satisfaction and willingness to recommend Cedars-Sinai
