title: The transplant center and business unit as a model for specialized care delivery.
abstract: Transplant centers are valuable assets to a transplantation hospital and essential to organize the delivery of patient care. A transplant center defined around physicians and activities of caring for patients with organ failure creates a team better equipped to manage care across the continuum of the diseases treated by transplantation. Through monitoring of clinical and financial outcomes, the transplant center can better respond to the changing regulatory and financial landscape of health care. This article seeks to explain the major organizational challenges facing the transplant center and how a transplant center can best serve its patients and parent organization.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Houston Methodist Hospital, 6550 Fannin Street, Smith Tower 1661, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA; Methodist J.C. Walter Transplant Center, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, USA. Electronic address: aogaber@houstonmethodist.org.
authors.forename: A Osama
authors.initials: AO
authors.lastname: Gaber
authors.forename: Roberta L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Schwartz
authors.forename: David P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Bernard
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zylicz
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics; D017146:Models, Organizational; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D014180:Transplantation / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States
keywords: Business unit; Transplant center; Transplantation; Transplantation health care delivery