Quality Improvement

McLean – November 10, 2026 -- The Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO) has submitted three additional performance measures to the Partnership for Quality Measurement (PQM) for national endorsement, extending a multi-year push to replace the two unendorsed outcome measures that CMS currently uses to evaluate organ procurement organizations (OPOs).

Three measures target donor care, organ recovery and utilization

The Donor Management Goals (DMG) Bundle Rate assesses the effectiveness of donor care and flags ways to optimize organ function and raise the number of organs available for transplant. The Organs Recovered Per Donor (ORPD) Rate tracks the average number of organs recovered from each deceased donor, whether or not those organs are ultimately transplanted.

THE BRONX – October 29, 2026 -- Holliswood Center and Bushwick Center, two skilled nursing facilities in the Centers Health Care network, have earned the American Heart Association's Skilled Nursing Facility Heart Failure Certification, aimed at cutting preventable readmissions in a patient population projected to exceed 8 million U.S. adults by 2030.

Certification audits six operating areas of heart failure care

The framework evaluates facilities against science-based requirements for heart failure (HF) patients. The six areas are program management, staff education, patient and caregiver education and support, care coordination, clinical management and quality improvement.

Moshe Blackstein, administrator at Amsterdam Nursing Home, another Centers Health Care facility, said the certification reflects a multidisciplinary team approach and tighter communication and coordination at every stage of care.