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This site is intended for healthcare professionals seeking information on the CMS/HRSA-sponsored End Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices Learning Collaborative. If you are a patient seeking information on a kidney transplant click HERE.
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In July 2019, an Executive Order was signed to launch
To accomplish the goals of the Advancing American Kidney Health
(AAKH) initiative to transform the way we prevent and treat kidney disease. To accomplish the goals of the AAKH
initiative, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services (CMS)
Innovation created the End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Treatment Choices (ETC) payment model to encourage preventative kidney care, home dialysis, and kidney transplants.
To
In support of the ETC
model’s focus on increased kidney transplants, CMS,
payment model, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in collaboration with the Health Resources & Services Administration
(HRSA),
has established the ESRD Treatment Choices Learning Collaborative (ETCLC) with the goal of improving the quality of life of people with end stage renal disease through kidney transplantation.
The ETCLC will bring transplant centers, Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs), donor hospitals, patients, and donor families together to
reduce the disparity in performance among OPOs and transplant centers with the goal of increasing kidney recoveries by OPOs and utilization of kidneys by transplant centers. Together, ETCLC members are guided by a national network of quality improvement coaches to identify best and promising practices that drive recovery and utilization performance and spread these practices throughout the kidney transplant community.
ETCLC members are
This work will be
supported by a National Faculty and Leadership Coordinating Council made up of
more than 20
thought leaders and organizations in the field of organ recovery and transplant. People on dialysis, transplant recipients, and donor family members have an important voice and role in the ETCLC by identifying patient and family education needs around organ donation and transplant. To learn more, scroll down.
National Faculty provide subject matter expertise to advise ETCLC participants throughout the improvement process. Led by two national chairs, members of the National Faculty represent transplant nephrologists and surgeons, Organ Procurement Organization professionals, donor hospitals, data analysts and statisticians, and patients.
The Leadership Coordinating Council is a group of national stakeholders that guide the ETCLC. Members represent the patient and professional organizations across the kidney community.